The Yankees dealt many of their expensive pieces before the deadline, but the two biggest salary pieces will likely not be with the team next season.
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The occasion for Teixeira (2-for-4) was his announcement yesterday afternoon that he will retire at the end of the season. Then, McCann doubled to center field and drove in Ellsbury.
The Yankees got on the board in the bottom of the first on a RBI ground out by Brian McCann. Chase Headley was out at first.
“Teixeiras are criers by the way, so if you don’t know that yet”, he said. “Running around the bases (is) always good. So I’m happy to do it”. In a mirror of the first inning, a one-out rally began with Ellsbury and Teixeira reaching base. Jacoby Ellsbury added an RBI single in the inning. That started a four-start stretch in which the former Cy Young Award victor has gone 2-0 with a 1.24 ERA, lasting at least seven innings each time out. Manny Machado doubled in two runs and scored in the third in a three-hit night, and Adam Jones and J.J. Hardy also had three hits each to help the Orioles win for the fourth time in five games. In 2012, he only made one error in 119 games.
“When you talk about anybody that plays is a professional, I think that word really stands for the way he went about it”, Francona said.
Sanchez, viewed as the Yankees’ catcher of the future, doubled in the fifth for his first big league RBI and walked with the bases loaded in the sixth.
“I’m going to leave it all out there”, Teixeira said to Joe Giglio of NJ.com. Emotions boiled over for Texeira on Wednesday night against the New York Mets, as it looked like he was ready to charge the mound after Steven Matz hit him with a pitch in the leg. “He recorded two of the first four outs, in a sense”. TV: 1:05 p.m. ET, MLB Network, SportsTime Ohio (Cleveland), YES (New York) PITCHING MATCHUP: Indians RH Corey Kluber (10-8, 3.27 ERA) vs. Yankees LH CC Sabathia (6-8, 4.15) Kluber limited the Yankees to one run and five hits in eight dominant innings to pick up a win on July 8.
The Indians cut the deficit in half in the fifth, when Gimenez hit a long three-run homer to left.
The Indians (61-46) have lost four of six, a stretch in which they have been outscored 50-32.
NEW YORK (AP) – After losing four of their first five games in August, the Cleveland Indians lead second-place Detroit by just two games in the AL Central.
“You get confident from making two good throws like that and getting them out”, he said through a translator. “We’ve got confidence in every single guy in this room, so we’re going to come out here tomorrow and try to even up the series”.
But the injury bug that had bitten the three-time All-Star in recent years returned, and ultimately hastened the end of his career.
Miller formed the Yankees No Runs DMC bullpen trip with Chapman and Dellin Betances. “We could have a run where we score some runs and have some good games”.
The Yankees capped off a big third inning with Castro’s grand slam off Cleveland starter Josh Tomlin, who was charged with seven runs.
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Anyway, the point is that Teixeira rarely let his guard down, which has become the Yankee way since Derek Jeter ruled the clubhouse, and it’s too bad, because I think fans would like to see a little more personality from the players they root for.
