But it was Tillman – as he has done all season – who stopped the team’s slide, avoiding a four-game series sweep at Yankee Stadium with a 4-1 win over the New York Yankees.
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Machado had a one-out single with a runner on first and Davis loaded the bases by getting a walk.Machado wound up scoring what became the winning run on J.J. Hardy’s two-run single.Jonathan Schoop added a two-run double in the seventh.Sabathia was lifted after Schoop’s hit and allowed four runs and seven hits in 6 2/3 innings.
The Yankees scored their lone run in the second inning on a Starlin Castro RBI single.
Yankees pitchers have allowed one run or fewer in four straight games for the first time since 2003. Sabathia will be coming into this start having no won a game since back on June 16.
A stomach bug has been ravaging Baltimore’s clubhouse and claimed two more victims Wednesday: third baseman Manny Machado and manager Buck Showalter.
NEW YORK (AP) – Worn down and banged up, the Baltimore Orioles found the ideal remedy for all their ailments – a well-pitched game.
Today they’ll try to set a new high at three games over.500.
“In order for us to make a run we have to be consistent”, Beltran said.
Baltimore lost its fourth straight to fall a half-game behind Boston in the division.
Orioles center fielder Adam Jones didn’t play because of back spasms, catcher Matt Wieters missed his third consecutive game after being hit by a pitch in the foot and rookie outfielder Joey Rickard sat out with an injured thumb.
“This kid got sent out because he wasn’t hitting”, Collins said.
Orioles closer Zach Britton pitched a ideal ninth inning to record his 30th save in as many opportunities this season. Didn’t want to lose four in a row [in New York]. He worked seven frames and allowed one run, with two walks and seven strikeouts. It’s CC Sabathia’s birthday, so a win would be fun for him, though he faces a tough foe in Chris Tillman, easily the best starter on the O’s staff with a 3.29 ERA (75 ERA-).
“I think you have to look at it, you took three of four from a good Baltimore team, and you have to move on”, manager Joe Girardi said. He also stumbled and fell on the mound while trying to throw a pitch in the sixth, with the ball skittering onto the grass and resulting in a balk.
The Orioles are 8-for-72 with runners in scoring position in their past 10 games.
Enter Swarzak, who retired Mark Trumbo – MLB’s home run leader with 28 – on a foul out to Rob Refsnyder, who made a terrific one-handed catch near the rail after a long run. The Orioles will now get to go home, hopefully back to full health, for the first time since the All Star break. He pinch hit in the eighth and grounded out.
PHILLIES 4, MARLINS 1: Jeremy Hellickson (7-7) struck out eight in eight impressive innings and Tyler Goeddel hit a two-run homer as Philadelphia won at home.
“Nobody in this room believes we can’t do it”, Swarzak said after retiring eight straight batters in relief of Eovaldi during Tuesday night’s 7-1 win over the Orioles. NY of course won that game, and they’ve taken the first two from the first place O’s. He has never pitched vs. San Francisco.
And for good measure, Chase Headley padded the lead with a two-run home run in the eighth off Mychal Givens, giving the Yankees their seventh win decided by at least six runs and putting them over.500 (47-46) for the first time since June 24.
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The Yankees open the 2017 season at Tampa Bay on April 3, according to the team’s draft preliminary schedule, then go to Baltimore before their home opener, slated to be against the Rays on April 10.
