“I don’t know”, he said.
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“I was more aggressive”, Cessa said. “I could throw more fastballs and be more aggressive with everyone”.
He is off to a promising start, giving up just three singles, while also hitting a batter.
Not exactly an encouraging showing against Luis Cessa, a reliever for the Yankees who made his first career start Saturday – and his ninth career appearance in a major league game.
Making his third start since rejoining the rotation, Chacin used a relaxed bullpen mentality.
“I know Weave wants to pitch”, Scioscia said. “He had good command of both his breaking pitches – his slider and his curveball”. “He didn’t make many mistakes with them. But when he needed to, he found some velocity and good movement on his fastball”. Emphasis on tiny. A win is a win, though, and unexpectedly, this one came from scoreless innings from Jhoulys Chacin, Deolis Guerra, J.C. Ramirez and Fernando Salas. Opposing pitchers have routinely struggled to strike out the NY batters, who rank fourth in the AL with 7.2 strikeouts per game.
The pitching matchup for Sunday’s game between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Angels at Angel Stadium reflects the teams’ conflicting approaches to reconstructing their rosters. Cessa posted a 6-3 record with one shutout, one save and a 3.03 ERA in 15 games (14 starts) with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre this season.Nolasco remains in search of his first win as an Angel as he fell to 0-2 in three starts since being acquired from Minnesota after allowing three runs and eight hits in 5 1/3 innings against Seattle on Monday.
“He had all his pitches going tonight”, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.
OUR PICK: The Yankees have won 16 of 21 games versus the Angels overall and have been an excellent play for bettors when Tanaka is on the hill. But he injured his hand around the All-Star break and said for a few weeks he was unable to keep up his regular hitting routine outside of games. Aggressive base-running by allowed him to score from second base on Simmons’ first single. A trip to the West Coast apparently has been exactly what NY needs, as the club has outscored the Angels 12-1 in winning the first two games of the series after dropping three of its last four at home.Rookie Gary Sanchez homered for the fifth time during his six-game hitting streak Saturday while Luis Cessa tossed six scoreless innings in his first major league start as the Yankees rolled to a 5-1 triumph and pulled within four games of AL East rival Baltimore for the second wild card.
Three of Green’s first four starts did not go well, but the work he did in the minors earlier this month is paying off for the 25-year-old righthander as he’s allowed one run over his past 12 innings. Yankees C Gary Sanchez is the fifth player in team history since 1913 to collect at least 22 hits in his first 17 games.
Tanaka did not allow a run in 7 2/3 innings. Mark Teixeira began the inning with a double off the base of the center-field wall, then took third when Hicks lined a one-out single into center field.
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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. Scioscia said surgery likely would be minor and would take place in the offseason.
