The Yankees could potentially leave New York with a seven-game lead if they were to sweep Baltimore. You just have to do your job and go out and pitch a good game. Asked about his error being changed to a hit, New York LF Brett Gardner said, “It’s irrelevant, I could care less”. And as Yankees manager Joe Girardi pointed out, maybe if it were a closer game, Tanaka would have pitched to Hardy and Machado differently in the eighth.
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Josh Fields pitched a scoreless ninth for the win (3-1).
Seattle’s Nelson Cruz and Detroit’s J.D.
The big boppers in the middle of the Bombers’ lineup weren’t the reasons for Thursday’s hit parade and run barrage.
Yoenis Cespedes and Nick Castellanos also connected for the Tigers. You want to go out strong, but then gave up those two home runs. After 2 1-3 innings, his ERA was at 3.81. He was recalled from Double-A Corpus Christi on Tuesday. Yet with this afternoon’s tough 9-3 loss, that’s exactly what happened.
Today’s game was the Orioles’ last chance to turn this series into anything but a complete disaster. Bautista and Encarnacion each connected for a solo shot.
Graveman came to the A’s in the offseason trade that brought All-Star third baseman Josh Donaldson to Toronto.
Ellsbury led off the second with a homer and had a sacrifice fly an inning later as the first batter to face reliever Tommy Hunter. Miller then struck out Jonathan Schoop for his 22nd save in 22 tries. His cleats needed to at least closely match the color of his teammates’ spikes, and everyone on New York wears mostly black shoes.
The Yankees are 12 games over. Chris Capuano came in for Tanaka and finished off the eighth. It’s when they’re two- and three-run home runs that you worry about. 500 at 46-46, five games out of the penthouse.
In 2008, the Los Angeles Dodgers selected him in the 11th round.
Tanaka, though, was out with a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow and made only two starts late in September when the Yankees were out of the playoff conversation.
“He stayed ahead of the hitters most of the time and made them chase his stuff”, Girardi said.
Right now, the Yankees pretty much have the roster that they envisioned having, with no big names on the DL.
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Francisco Liriano allowed three hits over six-plus dominant innings and Pittsburgh raced by Washington.
With two outs, Headley drove in all three baserunners and A-Rod scored the third run of the inning, securing it with a gorgeous, textbook slide into home plate. He missed that mark in the previous four seasons due to injuries and his year-long suspension for performance-enhancing-drug use last year.
Bolsinger (5-3) retired 14 straight batters before a two-out walk of A.J. The 6-foot-6 right-hander has allowed a combined three runs over his last three starts – a span of 20 innings. The other hits off Latos were a single by Paul Goldschmidt and an infield single by Yasmany Tomas. Teixeira recorded his fourth consecutive multi-hit game, starting his night with a two-run home run in the bottom of the first. He struck out six. They’re frustrated at today’s game. Cleveland has lost four of six.
Leake (8-5) went eight innings in the opener to beat the Cubs for the fifth straight time. He’s a pitch away from getting out of that first inning and we’re on our way, but he got a fastball right on the center of the plate to Headley and he paid a price.
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Wade Davis (6-1) got the win. The Yankees had the bases loaded with no one out.
