Former Angels OF Garret Anderson was inducted into the team’s hall of fame before the game.
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For the sixth time since June 19, the Yankees entered the final game of a series with an opportunity to sweep their opponent.
The Yankees jumped on the Angels in the first inning Saturday night and never trailed in the game. Angels RHP Garrett Richards played catch from 60 feet Friday and reported no problems.
No one was more disappointed than Weaver as the Angels had shown signs of moving on from their poor play over the recent weeks in their previous series against Seattle, but this game resembled numerous Angels’ losses this season.
The Yankees’ offense was silenced by righthander Jhoulys Chacin over 5.2 scoreless innings.
NY was 1 for 7 with runners in scoring position.
Jacoby Ellsbury gets some air to rob Albert Pujols. NY 3B Chase Headley (Achilles) missed his second straight game Saturday.3.
Pujols had his seventh three-hit game this year. Basically, after those three games, we have six games out of our division and the rest are in our division out of the 36.
“I thought he showed really good stuff”, Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. Instead, the Yankees sit four games back, behind the Mariners, Detroit Tigers (2 1/2 games back), Kansas City Royals (3 1/2 games back) and Houston Astros (3 1/2 games back) heading into a three-game series with the Mariners.
NY starts play six games behind the AL wild-card co-leaders, the Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox. He hasn’t walked a batter in his last four starts (123 hitters).
Cessa wound up tossing six scoreless innings against the Angels on Saturday, another night when the Yankees’ youngsters led the charge toward a victory.
Green (2-3) followed up his 11-strikeout performance on Monday in Toronto with five strikeouts and one walk while matching his career high for innings.
“He’s hit the ball all over the place”, Girardi said. “I think those games in Seattle are really important”. “You wonder how he’s going to react to that, waiting and waiting and he can’t wait to get out there”. Let’s watch on, possibly in mute amazement, as Gardner takes a home run off the bat of C.J. Cron and magically turns it into an out.
Chacin retired the first six Yankees hitters before getting into a jam in the third.
The man he replaced behind the plate, Brian McCann, chipped in with a two-run single later in the inning that made it 3-0 before Luis Cessa even took the mound in his first major league start.
In Cleveland, Tyler Naquin hit a game-ending inside-the-park homer, sprinting around the bases to cap a two-run rally in the ninth inning.
Los Angeles Angels shortstop Andrelton Simmons, left, throws to second baseman Cliff Pennington, right, in attempt to throw out New York Yankees’ Didi Gregorius at second after fielding a ball hit for a single by Starlin Castro during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016, in Anaheim, Calif.
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Adam Warren allowed an insurance run in the eighth, giving up three straight singles with two out. Right-hander Fernando Salas struck out two of the three batters he faced in the ninth inning for his fourth save.Andrelton Simmons drove in both runs while Albert Pujols collected three hits and nearly hit his 584th career home run, which would have put him into 10th place all-time.
