A day after trouncing the Orioles 14-4, NY moved within 2 1/2 games of them for the second AL wild-card spot.
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Gary Sanchez became the quickest player in major league history to reach 11 career home runs and the New York Yankees collected 18 hits in a 13-5 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
Since the All-Star break, the New York Yankees are 23-17, putting them six games over the.500 mark on the season.
Regardless, in a season in which the Yankees already declared that the future is more important than the present, Sunday wasn’t such a awful day.
A good pitching performance can do that, every time.
Keuchel (9-12) mitigated the damage of nine hits by issuing only one walk. Speaking through a translator after the game, he said it was the first curtain call he’d ever gotten, adding that “it’s very exciting to hear your name being called out by the fans”. He’d thrown well several times, but had nothing to show for it.
Yoenis Cespedes hit a long three-run homer in the fourth inning to break open a close game as NY continued its power surge with a rout of Philadelphia at Citi Field.
They’re still throwing a party for Gary Sanchez in the Bronx, and at this rate it might not end until October.
Machado, who gave the Orioles the lead in the first, hit his second of the game into the right-field seats in the sixth to make it 12-3 with his ninth career multi-homer game.
The Orioles were shifted on Mark Teixeira, so third baseman Manny Machado had moved closer to second base, leaving third open.
Melvin Upton Jr tripled in the tying run and continued home on an outfield error in the eighth inning as Toronto came back to defeat Minnesota.
Sanchez is dominating the ball in August, hitting.
“We flushed them. We weren’t looking back”, he said.
Sanchez was thrown out trying to go from first to third in the fourth inning, a significant moment because that frame was probably the Yanks’ best chance to score against O’s starter Kevin Gausman.
Chase Headley’s two-run homer in the fourth pushed the Yankees lead to 10-1, and Sanchez clubbed a two-run shot in the next inning for his 10th homer in 20 games this season. The slugger reached 40 home runs for the first time in his career and boosted Baltimore’s homer total to 204, most in the majors. My goal is just to go deep in games. “It’s such a lofty number”.
Kenley Jansen pitched a ideal ninth for his 38th save a day after allowing a run on a wild pitch in the ninth in a 6-4, 10-inning loss.
RANGERS 7, INDIANS 0: Mitch Moreland’s grand slam capped a five-run first inning and A.J. Griffin pitched six strong innings as Texas won at Arlington, Texas.
“It felt pretty good”, Hunter said. Chris Davis (109 in 2013), Jim Gentile (119 in 1961), Brady Anderson (120 in 1996) and Frank Robinson (123 in 1966) were faster.
Orioles: Jones was in the starting lineup despite leaving Thursday night’s game with hamstring cramps. “We’ll see what tomorrow brings”. Baltimore RHP Chris Tillman (shoulder bursitis) will throw Monday but the team does not expect him to return before September 9 or 10. RHP Bryan Mitchell (toe tear on left foot), reinstated from the 60-day disabled list and optioned to Triple-A on Wednesday, could pitch for the Yankees this season.
“[Sabathia] leaves the game after 6ª and, at the time, he had given up one run and pitched a really good game”, Girardi said. Torreyes doubled and singled. LHP Wade Miley (8-10, 5.51 ERA) is 1-2 with an 8.18 ERA in five starts since Baltimore got him from Seattle at the trade deadline.
Orioles: Rookie RHP Dylan Bundy (7-4, 3.33 ERA) attempts to win for the fifth time this month.
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Yankees: RHP Michael Pineda (6-10, 5.02) starts the opener of a three-game series at Kansas City on six days’ rest.
