This seems like a major mismatch, Betances Vs. Vazquez, right? His skills as a catcher are something special.
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“I pretty much lost two of these games”.
That’s what made his swing Sunday night so memorable.
“The farthest, yeah”, he said with a little grin. The Red Sox start a three-game series against the best team in the American League, the Chicago White Sox. The win was their seventh over their last eight games, and earned the Red Sox a sweep over the Yankees.
The last-place Yankees have lost five straight to fall to 8-15.
NY sent Nathan Eovaldi to the hill with the hope he could build on a stellar outing against the Texas Rangers, but his team would receive the opposite as he surrendered six runs on ten hits in five innings of work. This time, Betances went with a 97-mile-per-hour fastball right down the middle. He can thank a couple of two-run homers to Vazquez and Ortiz for that.
As Betances warmed up, Vazquez had time to confer with hitting coach Chili Davis. I take the responsibility on myself.
Vazquez had his right arm in a cast a year ago as he recovered from Tommy John surgery.
ANGELS: OF Craig Gentry is battling back stiffness and could be headed to the disabled list.
“Shutdown innings are probably the most important innings”, Girardi said. “What great is the way our young guys continue to grow. Remember that”, said Ortiz, who is in his final season. “I know there are a lot of better days ahead”. “At some point I won’t be surprised if he figures it out”.
David Ortiz took Dellin Betances deep with a runner on and one out in the eighth inning Friday night to break a 2-2 tie, as the Red Sox rallied for a 4-2 win over the Yankees.
Starlin Castro scored on a Koji Uehara wild pitch to Brian McCann in the eighth, bringing the Yankees to within one run.
The game was played with rain falling throughout, particularly heavy in the early innings, but the teams combined for 23 hits. He and Millar appeared in a video message for 5-year-old Maverick Schutte, a Red Sox fan from Wyoming who was born with a congenital heart defect, according to espn.com. Kirby Yates then came and allowed an infield single to Mookie Betts to score Bradley, making it 4-0 Red Sox. Boston’s. 277 average ranked second, and its 118 runs were tied for sixth….
A-Rod’s home run in the top of the third inning was not only the fifth of the season and the 692nd of his career, but it was his 29th at Fenway. Pedroia and Bogaerts would both single with one out, and David Ortiz would follow with a walk.
The Yankees and Red Sox did not play Monday.
Price gave up three more runs in the fifth.
BOSTON (AP) – Alex Rodriguez had already driven in four runs against David Price with a homer and a double.
But just like the third inning, the Red Sox would answer.
Ellsbury led off the game with a double and moved to third on a sac bunt, but was gunned down at the plate on A-Rod’s grounder to third baseman Travis Shaw.
The rally in the second took place after Pineda retired the first two batters. “I hoped he would do it again and he did”. The Yankees had four hits in their first six at-bats with runners in scoring position, which had been a nagging problem of late.
“No, just execution”, said Price about whether he is pitching any differently in front of the hometown crowd than on the road.
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“Just wanted to check with him”, Farrell said. “He was definitely able to give us a chance to win, and we’re very luck that we had him on our side tonight”. Price said. “So it was good”. 350 with 7 HR, 16 RBI and a. 660 slugging-percentage, in the AL, and Colorado’s Nolan Arenado, who is hitting. That happened twice all of 2015.
