Detroit rookie Michael Fulmer dominated Sunday, winning his fifth straight start while extending his scoreless streak to 281/3 innings to lead the Tigers over NY 4-1.
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With Whitey Ford, Rickey Henderson and Bernie Williams on hand for the pregame festivities, the 23-year-old Fulmer excelled.
The good news is that the Yankees still went 5-2 on the homestand and are headed to Coors Field for a quick two-game series and then to Minnesota for four games after Monday’s off-day.
Fulmer has won his last five starts and hasn’t given up a run in his past three. He hasn’t allowed more than two runs in his last six starts and left with a 2.28 ERA – the lowest he’s ever had after 10 starts or more in any season. “But baseball is a game over the long haul and he’s been very good in this one-month span. But right now, he should just ride the wave”. “It really, that’s the big part, when youre starting pitchers are doing their job, you’re going to win a lot more games”. Fulmer needed only nine pitches to get through the sixth, capping his day at 91 pitches. Mindful of his place as a rookie, Fulmer waited out of the way for Greene to finish.
The Yankees didn’t hit Justin Verlander on Saturday, and they didn’t hit Michael Fulmer on Sunday. Flashing a fastball that sat between 95 and 96 miles per hour and solid secondary stuff, he walked three and struck out three. “He has great stuff”. For me, especially, I was having trouble picking the spin on the slider.
“I still don’t think it’s fair”, he said with a chuckle.
As Yoenis Cespedes belted line drive after line drive last summer, the sentiment coming from Mets fans featured no doubt: New York’s trade-deadline slugger was worth whatever so-called prospect general manager Sandy Alderson had to surrender to the Detroit Tigers.
When they are outhit, the Tigers are 4-19.
Michael Fulmer stepped on to the mound in Yankee Stadium Sunday afternoon as the owner of the longest active scoreless streak in baseball. He would send an 86 mile per hour breaking ball to center field, over the head of Yankees outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, scoring both runners to extend the Tigers’ lead to 6-1. On Saturday night, Kinsler would continue to further that argument as he had a career night against the New York Yankees.
The Yankees lost their second in a row following a five-game winning streak. This loss ended a stretch in which NY played 40 games in 41 days, going 23-17 in that span. Rodriguez worked out the bases loaded jam by getting Chase Headley on a groundout for his 18th save of the season.Rob Refsnyder had two hits off Verlander, including an RBI single to account for New York’s lone run. Tanaka continued to struggle on four days’ rest, allowing five runs and six hits in 6 1/3 innings.
Pineda seemed shaky after that, with Nick Castellanos getting a sacrifice fly later in the inning and Martinez adding an RBI grounder in the fifth.
Cabrera doubled in the first for his 2,400th career hit. NOTES: Cabrera became the fifth youngest player to reach 2,400 hits, joining Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Hank Aaron and Robin Yount.
Actor Jeff Daniels stayed for the first four innings before leaving to get ready for the Tony Awards.
Few times this year has Joe Girardi been able to look back at a game and say that Tanaka got out-dueled. He is 4-0 with an 0.32 ERA in his last four starts and the Elias Sports Bureau said he is the fourth rookie to win four consecutive starts with such a miniscule ERA since 1984. White Sox RHP James Shields (2-8), who got hit hard in his first outing after being acquired from San Diego.
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Although the Yankees slipped back below the.500 level, they completed a stretch of 40 games in 41 days with a 23-17 record that helped right the ship after a slow start to the season. He is also 4-1 on the road this season with a 3.63 ERA.
