Toronto Blue Jays’ Russell Martin, left, is greeted by Justin Smoak after hitting a two-run home run against the New York Yankees during the seventh inning of a baseball game Wednesday, May 25, 2016, in New York.
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Fun City had become Panic City.
Matching up with Sabathia for Toronto will be fellow lefty J.A. Happ. The Yankees had won 13-of-18 to float back to sea level.
This was one of those “feel good homestands” at Coca Cola Field in downtown Buffalo this past weekend, as the Buffalo Bisons paid homage to their parent club, the Toronto Blue Jays, and their strong relationships and synergies with our Canadian friends by hosting a Blue Jays weekend. Seemed likely he wouldn’t try to play this whole game, just two or three at-bats.
Rodriguez, who batted fifth, is 0 for 14 in his career against Happ. “When we were playing really bad at the beginning of the year, that was a pretty substantial goal. We haven’t got the results we expected at this point but we’re due to get hot”. Shapiro is not ruling out trades, “we’re looking at adding players for the short term and the long term” he said on a radio interview on The Fan 590 this past week. “You’re not going to win every one”.
“Places like Fenway and here are places that I still have a hard time putting together that I’m doing this”, Biagini said before Thursday’s series finale. However, when Brett Gardner beat out a potential inning-ending, double-play grounder, the run came home.After wasting chances in the first and third off Nova, Toronto took a 2-1 lead with two outs in the fourth. That gave the Jays a lead they would never relinquish. “My job is to give (Yankees manager) Joe (Girardi) and the Yankees quality at-bats and to be a unsafe bat in the middle of the lineup”.
The outing dropped Sabathia’s ERA to 2.83, the lowest it’s been since April 17, 2013, when it was 2.57. Sabathia came back, but Luis Severino went down. So Nova’s still starting. All of Toronto’s runs came with two outs.
J.A. Happ (6-2) outdueled Sabathia, allowing one run on three hits in seven innings with five strikeouts and three walks.
“He pitched better than what his line was”, Girardi said. The hit was Goins’ first in his last fifteen at-bats, and helped to double his RBI production for the month of May.
Martin tacked on another to lead off the sixth when he sent a ball to the left field seats for his first homer of the season.
Edwin Encarnacion delivered the key blow for Toronto, a two-run bases-loaded single.
Sabathia allowed two hits and a walk in seven innings, striking out seven to tie Chuck Finley for 23rd place on the all-time list with 2,610. The fourth run ended the Yankees’ streak of six straight quality starts. “I obviously made a couple of mistakes and I paid for them”.
Shreve wasn’t done making mistakes. He’s allowed only one earned run in his last three starts, a 20-inning span. “I have to forget about that and move on”. During the last 10 games, they averaged 0.0 runs per game, above their 0.0 season average.
“After the third inning, I felt a lot better”.
A rickety third inning, lowlighted by an error by Didi Gregorius, tarnished a brilliant performance by CC Sabathia, as the Blue Jays scored twice and received a brilliant pitching performance of their own to defeat the Yankees, 3-1, at the Stadium on Tuesday.
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Yankees ninth. Austin Romine homers to center field.
