Giants manager Bruce Bochy is unsure if Leake’s strained left hamstring will force him to miss more than one turn. He’s thrown 99.1 innings this season, and according to Cashman, will not have an innings limit this season. He was ornery in this outing, yelling at plate umpire Rob Drake over a called ball early on and shouting while giving a fist-pumping shimmy after striking out David Ortiz on a 94 miles per hour two-seam fastball with the bases loaded to end the fifth. “He would know physically better than anyone”.
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“After the two sliders, there’s really nowhere else to go”, Sabathia said. Nice little quick strike two-out run.
He stomped around the mound, shouted and swore encouragement to himself.
As the Blue Jays’ thunder and lightning show comes to the Bronx this weekend, Joe Girardi’s 2015 Yankees have a grip on the American League East lead, but these are definitely not the Yankees of the Torre mold.
“We don’t think he’s a finished product by any means”.
Boston right fielder Alejandro De Aza hit an RBI double in the second inning, and Ortiz homered off Yankees right-hander Luis Severino (0-1) in the fourth. He was deliberate in his approach. There was a sense of plotting his attack.
Asked why he thought Sabathia was suddenly able to throw like the old CC again, the manager said, “I have no idea”. He’s a competitor. He wants to be the guy in control….
That pitcher was Red Sox knuckleballer, Steven Wright, and let’s just say that the knuckleball was dancing on Wednesday night. Good hitters are supposed to hammer a pitch like that, and while Ellsbury has been struggling big time of late, there’s still a good hitter in there somewhere.
Enough to leave you wanting to see more. His average had dipped from.322, when he returned from the disabled list on July 8, to. He said McCann is day to day and it shouldn’t be a long absence. In the end, seven innings of two-run ball-occasionally shaky though they were-from Eduardo Rodriguez went to waste. “Tonight for sure was a big hit, you know, contributing to a win”.
Alex Wilson got the last out to notch his second save and center fielder Anthony Gose had an RBI triple for the Tigers (52-55). And with Koji’s splitter hitting the dirt, repeatedly, before even crossing the plate, it was all that Swihart could do to block the pitches so that the Yankees wouldn’t tie the game.
And finally, Ellsbury now has five home runs on the season, including four since coming back from his knee injury. He also struck out eight and walked three during a 99-pitch outing, which also was his first since spending time in a hospital last week for dehydration after pitching in the Texas heat. But just continue with the work I’ve been doing before the game, after the game.
The pitchers did just fine.
Eduardo Rodriguez allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings. And they’re on pace for the most homers they’ve hit since clubbing 245 in 2012. Zoinks. Teixeira drew the walk and Ryan had the base hit. Since the inception of the save statistic in 1969, this is the third-longest save streak to begin a career with a new team behind only Brad Lidge (first 44 save opportunities with the Phillies in 2008-09) and Willie Hernandez (first 32 with the Tigers in 1984). He walked three and struck out eight, one shy of his season high.
The Red Sox (48-61) tied it an inning later. He faced his first 110 lefties without walking any of them. “For him to come out and tell me not to walk around the mound (makes me mad)”. “Not think about where I am. Don’t talk to me if I’m not talking to you”.
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– Travis Shaw didn’t start any of the three games despite having success on Boston’s most recent homestand. I see no such issues with Severino. That’s probably what I focus on a lot.
