Brian McCann homered before leaving with a bruised left big toe, Jacoby Ellsbury singled home the tiebreaking run in the seventh inning and the Yankees beat Cecil and the Blue Jays 3-2 on Tuesday night.
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There will be no leaning if Sanchez busts them with heavy heat on the inner half of the plate. “I don’t think anybody in this locker-room has panicked one bit”.
Teixeira hit a solo homer, his third, but NY failed to win its third straight. 889 to go along with two home runs, four runs batted in, nine total hits and 10 runs scored. Encarnacion popped out, Tulowitzki struck out swinging on a curve on dirt and Colabello got called out on strikes on (guess what) a curve.
“It’s nearly unfathomable how I could be so bad”, the veteran reliever said in rather candid fashion in the Toronto clubhouse several hours before Wednesday’s first pitch.
“When we got the blood out of there all the pressure under my nail [subsided]”, McCann said. He allowed a run on three hits in the eighth and finished with eight strikeouts.
But looking at the bigger picture, if Joe Girardi has to continue dipping into his bullpen in the sixth inning, the unit will be spent before the All-Star break.
Lefthander Brett Cecil, who took the loss Tuesday, pitched a ideal seventh.
Ryan Goins had three hits and two RBIs for the Blue Jays, who had lost five of six. “We’ll see what the game dictates”.
“You want to come in and get ahead of those hitters and get those last three outs”, Venditte said, a game ball tucked into his glove by his locker.
In recognition of Kobe Bryant’s final National Basketball Association game, Alex Rodriguez sent a message from his Twitter account to his “good friend”, thanking him “for all of the memories and inspiration”. “That’s something I’ll work on [over] these five days and I’ll be sharp next start”.
The two starters had similar lines.
Yankees RHP Nick Rumbelow will have Tommy John surgery on Friday after injuring his elbow while pitching for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Sunday…. Chapman is working out at the Yankees’ minor league complex in Florida while serving a 30-game suspension stemming from baseball’s new domestic violence policy. Castro bounced out with the infield playing back for a 1-0 Yankees lead. McCann said he expects to return to the lineup Thursday.
The teams will play the rubber game of the three-game series Thursday night at Rogers Centre.
Is it Marco Estrada (0.00 with seven scoreless innings in one start) or Sanchez (1.38, two earned runs in 13 innings in two outings)? For the Jays, he had an impressive spring training, giving up no earned runs in 8.1 innings while striking out three.
RF Jose Bautista walked and hit a two-run double in a 1-for-3 night Tuesday in the 3-2 loss to the New York Yankees.
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The Yankees put two on in the fourth when Teixeira walked with one out and Carlos Beltran singled, but Starlin Castro grounded into a force play, which put runners at the corners, and Chase Headley hit a stinger, but right at Troy Tulowitzki at short who turned it into an inning-ending forceout.
