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Castro hits slam, Yanks top Indians 13-7
Starlin Castro hit a third-inning grand slam off Josh Tomlin that gave the Yankees a six-run lead, Mark Teixeira got two hits after tearfully announcing this will be his final big league season and NY beat the Cleveland Indians 13-7 on Friday night.
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NY will pay A-Rod the remainder of the approximately $27 million he’s owed as part of his $275 million, 10-year contract.
With the Indians in dire need of a solid outing after five straight rocky starts, Kluber wobbled early on a muggy, soupy afternoon with a game-time temperature of 84 degrees.
Kluber (11-8), a righty who won the American League Cy Young in 2014, threw 100 pitches over eight innings of five-hit ball, facing the minimum three batters in all but the Yankees’ two-run second while striking out eight and walking one.
Yankees: RHP Luis Severino (1-6, 6.02 ERA) makes his first major league start since May 13 when NY begins a three-game series Tuesday night in Boston. Masahiro Tanaka, now standing at 7-4 with a 3.46 ERA, will take on Carlos Carrasco, who is 7-5 with a 3.12 ERA. Second baseman Starlin Castro then started a hard double play on Carlos Santana’s sharp grounder, and Betances struck out Yankees nemesis Jason Kipnis to end it. Coming off a 3-1 loss in San Francisco on Sunday, Gonzalez (7-9) struck out seven, walked one and had five three-up, three-down innings.
Indians manager Terry Francona said that he and the Indians players “appreciated” that ownership stepped up to acquire Miller at the deadline, and he echoed what Girardi said about the lefty reliever. On Sunday, “I thought he was tremendous”.
Cleveland’s talented rotation, so effective all season, came in 0-4 with a 15.58 ERA this month.
The Indians (61-46) have lost four of six, a stretch in which they have been outscored 50-32.
Teixeira will also go down as one of the best defensive first basemen in history, winning five Gold Gloves over his career, three with the Yankees. “I don’t think we have any doubt that guys are going to be back on track”. Hernandez reached on a two-base throwing error by rookie Padres shortstop Jose Rondon and scored on Joseph’s two-out single to left off left-handed reliever Brad Hand. The two hits he allowed were a solo homer by Angel Pagan in the fourth and a single by Denard Span in the sixth.
Davis went deep against Anthony Swarzak in the seventh, and Kipnis drove in Davis with a ninth-inning single off Nick Goody.
PIRATES 5, REDS 3: Ivan Nova pitched seven innings to win his first start with host Pittsburgh, Homer Bailey struggled in his second start since having Tommy John surgery and the Pirates beat Cincinnati. “I love this game and I love this team”, the 41-year-old Rodriguez said, often choking up. Fortunately, the Yankees were able to get to Carrasco on July 10, tagging him for five runs in 3.2 innings. TRAINER’S ROOM Indians: LF Brandon Guyer, acquired Monday from Tampa Bay, made his second start for Cleveland and was hit by a pitch on the left thigh. Headley lined out as a pinch-hitter for Torreyes in the eighth.
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NOTES: Cleveland recalled left-hander Shawn Morimando from Columbus and optioned left-hander Ryan Merritt and infielder Eric Gonzalez to the Triple-A farm team. NY called up LHP Chasen Shreve from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and sent down RHP Johnny Barbato. The slugger, who jawed extensively with Barrett after strike two, got right into the umpire’s face and might have nicked him with the bill of his helmet. RHP Trevor Bauer (7-5, 4.08 ERA) starts Tuesday night against All-Star RHP Max Scherzer (12-6, 2.87).