Girardi said he’s been impressed by Green’s approach to his back-and-forth season. He’s been up and down – both in terms of results, and in terms of shuttling to and from the minors – but the Yankees believe he’s a better pitcher today than when they got him from Detroit, and it seemed to show in tonight’s six shutout innings with 11 strikeouts.
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The wins have come as the Yankees have shed veterans Alex Rodriguez, Carlos Beltran, Andrew Miller and Aroldis Chapman. He was scheduled to run through drills in the afternoon and, if deemed available off the bench Tuesday night, Gardner would start Wednesday afternoon, manager Joe Girardi said. “That first at-bat, I felt like I kept executing and he kept fouling them off, and you just have to go to the next guy when that happens”.
Promoted earlier in the day from Triple A for his fifth stint of the season with the Yankees, Green (2-2) was in complete control. He gave up two hits, walked none and outpitched R.A. Dickey (8-13).
Tyler Clippard, Adam Warren and, finally, Betances, each tossed a scoreless inning to put this one away. Betances held on for his fifth save as the Yankees stopped a five-game losing streak to Toronto.
After Devon Travis popped out to first base, Josh Donaldson singled, sending pinch-runner Junior Lake scurrying for third base with just one out.
“I always try to do it every year”, stated Edwin Encarnacion post game on Rogers Sportsnet about reaching 100 RBI during Tuesday’s game, the first player in the Major Leagues to reach the century mark in RBI this season.
Chad Green struck out 11 in six dominant innings. The right-hander fanned him with his 104th and final pitch, a 96 miles per hour heater, and Donaldson flung his bat toward the Toronto dugout.
“I may have pressed a little bit more than I do now”, Happ said of being able to better navigate his way through rough waters. By the time Warren left the game, he had thrown a total of 27 pitches to record one out against five batters.
After hitting the first home run of his 19-year career, Bartolo Colon made history on Monday after drawing his first walk in his 282nd plate appearance.
Elsewhere, the Kansas City Royals defeated the Detroit Tigers 3-1, the Miami Marlins got the better of the Cincinnati Reds 6-3, the Tampa Bay Rays eased past the San Diego Padres 8-2, and the Texas Rangers beat the Oakland Athletics 5-2.
“I’m only comfortable because of my teammates”, Judge said.
Say this much for Judge, he’s doing all the right things and saying all the right things.
After Estrada struck out the first two men he faced in the game, shortstop Didi Gregorius jumped all over the first pitch he saw and hammered it on a line into the second deck in right. The Jays could have easily phoned it in being down by such a large margin while failing to score a single run for 14 innings in the series to that point, but they clearly had other ideas. The Tigers lost slugger Miguel Cabrera after four innings to a strained left biceps.
The Yankees have won nine of those starts, including last Thursday in Boston. The Bombers’ bullpen proceeded to give up 12 runs over the next four innings. Stan Bahnsen was the first, in 1968. An out later, Tulowitzki singled and Martin homered to put the Blue Jays ahead, and after Chasen Shreve hit Darrell Ceciliani, walked Melvin Upton Jr., and Ezequiel Carrera singled to load the bases, Travis singled and Donaldson worked another six-pitch walk to make it 10-6.
It’s the offence showing plenty signs of life – with Kevin Pillar and Jose Bautista injured – that is blowing both hot and cold, especially in a wild 12-6 victory of the Yankees on Tuesday night. Wendelstedt stayed in for the rest of the inning, then left for the night.
Blue Jays: RHP Marco Estrada (7-5, 2.95) hasn’t given up more than three earned runs in any of his previous 13 starts. He has allowed just one home run over his last four outings.
That was all the run support starting pitcher Michael Pineda would seem to need on rain-soaked night.
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Nationals 5, Rockies 4 • Jayson Werth and Wilson Ramos homered, Bryce Harper doubled in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning and Washington won at Colorado despite a lackluster start from Max Scherzer.
