“You either adjust to it or get out, so I’m adjusting to it. I might get out here pretty soon, but I’m going to adjust to it right now”.
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“I think my baptism here was a little longer in a way”, Piazza said before throwing out a ceremonial first pitch before the Mets’ Sunday Night Baseball appearance against the New York Yankees.
Harvey was pulled after five innings with a 1-0 lead.
The rookie right-hander is 7-1 with a 2.15 ERA in 10 home starts, with the Mets winning the last seven as he’s gone 5-0.
“I actually got a bit of a bad read on it”, the left fielder said.
Harvey was fantastic during the start. He only allowed three more hits in five innings while striking out five more.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi was ejected in the second inning after voicing displeasure with third-base umpire John Hirschbeck’s ruling that Greg Bird went too far with his check swing for the third strike. Tony Watson and Mark Melancon followed with flawless innings of relief, and Melancon got his 48th save.
Harvey has now compiled 176 2/3 innings this season. But Ackley hit.274 over his last 69 games in 2014 and is at.360 (9-for-25) with two doubles, a triple, two homers and six RBIs in his first 13 games with the Yankees, including 3-for-7 as a pinch hitter.
Because of that, the decision to remove Harvey became, not surprisingly, a hot topic.
The mindset to McCann and the Yankees is to win as many as they can.
Ace Masahiro Tanaka will miss at least one start with a hamstring injury.
Things aren’t getting easier from here for the Mets. Though his team was already up by two runs, Morales chose to pad the Royals’ lead. His bat was slow. This time, it came against an 85 miles per hour splitter. Severino is 4-1 with a 3.08 ERA as he has given up just nine runs in 26.1 innings pitched and six of those runs came against the Blue Jays. Ellsbury then grounded a shot off Familia’s leg that caromed into foul territory for a single that loaded the bases.
The Rich Hill comeback tour continues. And the Yankees hope to remain in distance, all of course depending on what happens Sunday, because if the Blue Jays lose and the Yankees take the finale, the deficit is 3-½ games. Ackley made $2.6 million this year and might not even see $5 million in arbitration over the next two years, while Rob Refsnyder-which, who the heck knows what the Yankees plan to do with him at this point-would only make the league minimum.
Jacoby Ellsbury had three hits for the Yankees. He struck out 10, and did not issue any walks during the outing. In August, when Sabathia landed on the disabled list with knee inflammation, Brendan Kuty of NJ Advance Media questioned whether he’d ever pitch again. Clearly the best division in baseball all three teams will make the playoffs.
With the loss, the Yanks dropped four and a half back of Toronto in the AL East.
Cleveland stayed four games behind Houston for the AL’s second wild card.
Friday night it went the right way for the Mets. Wei-Yin Chen struck out seven in seven innings and combined with two relievers on a six-hitter. The Mets are looking to tie the season series as the Yankees won two of three when these teams met at Yankee Stadium in April. This was the first time that Sabathia had not allowed a run in a start.
Wildcard wise the Yankees hold the top spot by 4 games over the Astros but there are plenty of other clubs still mathematically in the mix.
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“I want you to understand something: This kid is still a tremendous competitor”.
