Next year, CC Sabathia might prefer to skip pitching on his birthday.
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After the Yankees won the series against the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night, they made a decision to be a little greedy and go for the series sweep. The right-hander has gone seven innings and allowed just one run in each of his last four trips to the hill.
NEW YORK, NY – JULY 19: Starlin Castro #14 of the New York Yankees hits a 2 RBI double in the sixth inning against the Baltimore Orioles on July 19, 2016 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York City. One would hope that no team would be compulsive enough to allow a couple of games to influence their thinking.
Sabathia has done well in his two starts against Baltimore this year. 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. You have to get yourself back up tomorrow and know you’re facing a really good pitcher (Madison Bumgarner) again tomorrow. “It’s the time of the year when you get quality pitching”.
Sweep dreams will be put up against the Orioles’ ace as the Yankees try to reach a season-high three games over.500.
“You can’t have a letdown because you lost today. You get to go out and make pitches and Caleb did an outstanding job of getting back on track there”, Tillman said. The defeat, their fourth straight and third to open this four-game series, dropped them a half-game behind Boston. The Orioles get Chris Davis and Manny Machado back from illness, but Adam Jones and Joey Rickard are out of the lineup. He allowed one run and struck out eight in seven innings, his longest outing since June 11.
MARLINS 2, PHILLIES 1 (10) Christian Yelich homered and drove in the game-winning run with a single in the 10th inning to lead visiting Miami to a victory over Philadelphia. The Orioles lone run came from a solo home run by Jonathan Schoop in the third inning.
“He didn’t give up a lot of hard-hit balls and you look up and there’s four runs on the board”, Girardi said.
He said he was feeling better.
Hansel Robles (4-3) pitched two scoreless innings in relief for the win. The Yankees recalled RHP Chad Green from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre, fueling speculation he would start in place of RHP Masahiro Tanaka.
Yankees: 3B Chase Headley didn’t start for the second straight game with an excused absence to be with his ailing child. Pinch-hitter Matt Szczur hit a grounder to first baseman James Loney, and Loney threw out Russell at the plate.
Orioles: RHP Dylan Bundy (2-2, 3.70) faces Cleveland at Camden Yards.
After going 3-for-33 with runners in scoring position in the first six games after the All-Star break, the Orioles scored two runs in the first.
Girardi acknowledged he has toyed with the idea of dropping Teixeira in the lineup – he has batted third, fourth or fifth in 59 of the 63 games he has played – and conceded that without the kind of production Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez provided in 2015, when they combined for 64 home runs and 165 RBIs, the Yankees will have a hard time staying in contention. Pineda is 0-3 with a 4.46 ERA in six starts since beating the Los Angeles Angels on June 7. “San Francisco is going to be no easy task”.
The O’s will counter with Yovani Gallardo who has been unable to get deep into games throughout his first season with the team.
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