Teixeira helped NY win a World Series title in his first season.
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That’s exactly what they got, though. “This last week’s been pretty hectic and, like I said, happy I survived and found a way”.
Travis led off the game with a home run, then ripped a 1-2 pitch from Kelvin Herrera (1-3) into the Royals’ bullpen for his first career multihomer game.
Mike Napoli, Jason Kipnis and Rajai Davis homered to help the AL Central leaders recover from an early two-run deficit.
He scattered six hits over six plus innings, striking out eight, while allowing just one run.
The first three Marlins reached base in the ninth as Adeiny Hechavarria’s RBI single cut the lead to 3-2 off closer Carlos Estevez (2-6). “He’s one of my all-time favorite teammates”, Brett Gardner said. “He’s fast and I was starting from scratch and he had a full steam so I knew I was going to have to dive for that one”.
He recovered enough to make the All-Star team again in 2015 but fouled a pitch off his right leg August 17, played two more games in pain and then found out he had fractured his shin. Jacoby Ellsbury and Teixeira struck out on checked swings before Brian McCann grounded out to end it. “I know I’ve done it before; I’ve seen him in a Red Sox uniform, a Baltimore uniform, but he was just here and it was kind of odd to see him come out”. “I’m glad I got the job done”.
RHP Josh Tomlin will pitch Wednesday for the Indians instead of RHP Mike Clevinger. “He was just here”.
He was taken by Texas with the fifth overall pick in the 2001 amateur draft, made his big league debut with the Rangers two years later and, hoping to emulate Baltimore’s Cal Ripken Jr., played in 507 consecutive games during a streak that ended in 2007.
Kluber settled in from there, though, and struck out the 3-4-5-6 hitters in the third and fourth. “Obviously, it was a bad read by me. City is great. He would put me into contact with other people and directions to go, and I think that kind of eased things a little bit”.
Cleveland’s talented rotation, so effective all season, came in 0-4 with a 15.58 ERA this month.
Teixeira was limited to 15 games and a.151 average in 2013 after tearing the tendon sheath in his right hand while with the US team at the World Baseball Classic.
Kluber threw 100 pitches and walked only one, improving to 3-0 in his last five starts.
“I do have family here, but I like to play here because the stadium is always filled with Dominicans and I like to be around those people”, said Ramirez.
Kipnis connected leading off the fourth for Cleveland’s first hit, his fourth homer against the Yankees this year.
Napoli broke the tie with an opposite-field solo shot off Sabathia in the sixth over the auxiliary scoreboard in right-center.
Sabathia was charged with three runs in 5 2/3 innings, dropping to 1-5 with a 6.62 ERA in his last nine starts.
The Yankees are a.500 team once again at 55-55, and no matter what they say they’re focused more on the future than the present.
Justus Sheffield struck out 11 of the 21 hitters he faced Friday night for Class A Tampa in his first outing since joining the Yankees organization. The left-hander pitched six innings of two-hit ball and retired his final 12 batters in a 7-1 win over Daytona.
“I think, fortunately, I’ve been through it before, I got traded at the deadline some years back”, Miller said of transitioning from NY to Cleveland. “I told him he doesn’t have a 20-something first basemen like he did in Chicago”.
He did what he had done plenty of times for the Yankees and what the Indians had in mind when they paid a heavy prospect price to acquire him just last Sunday.
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With two on, the 36-year-old Teixeira went to his knees for a sliding stop of Francisco Lindor’s two-out grounder behind first base.
