Yankees: 2B Starlin Castro received a rare rest with NY in the middle of playing 17 consecutive days.
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“There’s a plan between us”, Sanchez said through the interpreter.
For the first five innings, it was a pitchers duel, but the Yankees ultimately got to Archer in the sixth and went on to defeat the Rays 5-1 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. NY looks to continue its improbable march on Saturday as the American League East rivals play the third contest of their four-game series at Yankee Stadium.Gary Sanchez, who was the AL Player of the Month for August, went deep for the first time in September with a solo shot in Friday’s 7-5 triumph for New York’s franchise-record 12th homer by a rookie catcher. “Let’s use our heads here a little bit. We’re hungry right now”. He is 0-4 with a 3.15 ERA in his last six starts against the Yankees and last faced them August 12 in NY, when he allowed Alex Rodriguez’s RBI double in his final game and gave up five runs and seven hits in six innings.
The legend of Gary Sanchez continues to grow and the Yankees keep on winning.
McCann and Holder argued immediately and were joined on the field by Yankees manager Joe Girardi.
“I have to watch his knee”.
“I’m not dumb enough to claim that, ” Mottola said. LP: Snell (5-8).
DUFFY UPDATE: SS Matt Duffy underwent what the Rays said was successful surgery on his left heel Friday in Charlotte, with specialist Dr. Robert Anderson removing the bursa and debriding (cleaning up) the bone. “It was part of my speech yesterday to remind these guys of how this game has humbled me and I’m constantly reminded, so I understand the failures that it brings”. “I threw a hundred pitches and there were definitely way more than three pitches that I didn’t execute, but those three pitches were the ones that they capitalized on”, he said.
He got his bat head out early and drove a 94 miles per hour fastball into the Yankees’ bullpen in right-center for his 12th home run this season, the 406th of his career, and his 11th big league slam.
“It wasn’t ideal, but to be able to kind of grind through it and come out with zeros, I know it helped out the bullpen, so I’m happy with it”, he said.
There were stoppages of 21 minutes in the fourth and 22 minutes in the sixth caused by brief light rain. As a downpour began in the ninth, umpires halted play with a 2-2 count on Brad Miller after singles by Kevin Kiermaier and Evan Longoria off Dellin Betances put runners at the corners.
Rays: 1B Logan Morrison strained his left wrist when he hit a foul line drive in the fourth and left the game.
The New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays combined for an unusual feat in Thursday’s game at Yankee Stadium, playing the first Major League Baseball contest all season that included multi-homer efforts from three different players, per Elias Sports Bureau (via ESPN Stats & Info). Franklin got looked at by the trainer and stayed in the game.
After providing a walk-off home run last night, Austin will be looking to carry his hot bat into game two of the series. He almost had a third home run in the ninth off Enny Romero but flied out to the warning track in deep right field.
“I’m a little surprised, ” Pineda said.
Rookie Ryan Schmpf’s homer was the highlight of a seven-run third inning as the San Diego Padres thumped the Colorado Rockies 14-1 and the Texas Rangers, the AL West leaders, lost for the fourth time in their last five games after going down 6-3 to the Seattle Mariners.
The much-maligned Adam Warren came in, and settled things down.
Since, they’ve won 24 of 37 games to build a nobody-saw-this-coming 76-65 record. Teixeira wants his finale to be in the postseason.
Tonight, the Yankees send Michael Pineda to the mound in hopes to tuck another win under their belt.
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“I’m emptying the tank, ” he said.
