With a runner on first base in the seventh inning, Gardner sprinted from left-center field and made a leaping, one-handed catch of Cron long fly ball while leaning backward into the stands at the short fence near the bullpen.
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The Yankees need a new finishing move.
Cessa wound up tossing six scoreless innings against the Angels on Saturday, another night when the Yankees’ youngsters led the charge toward a victory.
After winning the first two games of the series, NY entered four games over.500 at 63-59 but for the fourth time failed to move five games over.
Rookie Chad Green followed up Monday’s superb win over the Blue Jays with another strong effort, holding the Angels to one run over six strong innings.
Torreyes, who batted ninth and entered the game hitting.218, had a career-high four hits, including his first career home run.
ANAHEIM A day after Angels owner Arte Moreno cited a lack of pitching in defense of manager Mike Scioscia’s role in the team’s dip 20 games below.500, Ricky Nolasco didn’t debunk the argument.
The Yankees’ offense was silenced by righthander Jhoulys Chacin over 5.2 scoreless innings. New York’s 1-3 hitters went 0 for 10 with two walks.
Jacoby Ellsbury gets some air to rob Albert Pujols. “You can put really good streaks together and that’s really important now”.
“It’s really important because it’s a team that we’re chasing”, Joe Girardi said. Basically, after those three games, we have six games out of our division and the rest are in our division out of the 36.
“I come to the ballpark every night and prepare as if I’m going to play”, Torreyes said.
The Yankees travel to Kansas City next week for three games against the Royals, then play host to the Dodgers from September 12-14.
That was all for the fourth game in Weaver’s career in which he had allowed four homers, the first since April 6, 2014.
“He’s developed a lot over that time, adding the breaking ball that has depth to it, a swing-and-miss (pitch) for him”, Girardi said.
“It’s been a pretty significant slide since the All-Star break and trying to get his timing going”, Seattle manager Scott Servais said.
Green struck out a career-high 11 in his start against Toronto and is 2-2 with a 4.05 ERA in his fifth stint with the Yankees this season.
The man he replaced behind the plate, Brian McCann, chipped in with a two-run single later in the inning that made it 3-0 before Luis Cessa even took the mound in his first major league start.
In Cleveland, Tyler Naquin hit a game-ending inside-the-park homer, sprinting around the bases to cap a two-run rally in the ninth inning. Ronald Torreyes doubled in a run in the second, before NY chased Weaver with home runs by Torreyes, Didi Gregorious and Brian McCann in the fifth.
Los Angeles Angels player Albert Pujols (C) is congratulated by teammates after scoring on a single by Los Angeles Angels shortstop Andrelton Simmons in the first inning of the MLB baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Angels at Angels Stadium in Anaheim, California, USA, 21 August 2016.
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With the Yanks ahead 3-0 in the third, Cessa gave up a pair of two-out singles – the first two hits against him on Saturday. Salas pitched a ideal ninth for his fourth save.
