“Everything’s going to be better”.
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Over their last 17 games – this dates back to the end of the Tigers series – the Yankees are hitting.216/.284/.318 as a team.
The at-bat was somewhat reminiscent of Ortiz’s approach Friday, when he said he was looking for an offspeed pitch because if a batter looks for everything in Betances’ arsenal, “you’re done”.
“I’m not concerned”, Betances said.
It was a tough weekend for Betances. Too bad Eovaldi couldn’t hold it for a second time, allowing a hit to Ortiz, and setting up Travis Shaw to tie the game with a line drive home run that wrapped around Pesky’s Pole in right. That one was a curve. And Vasquez rocked Betances’ 97-mph first pitch not just over the Green Monster, but into the street behind it, pushing Boston up, 8-6.
Bradley also had a two-run triple in the inning.
The skinny: 8-15, last in AL East, have lost five in a row and are 3-7 in their last 10 games. “I feel like it was my fault”.
“Dellin is probably the least of my worries”, Joe Girardi said.
David Price allowed six runs on eight hits and a walk over seven innings in Sunday’s win over the Yankees. Should have been enough, right?
Oh You Thought They Would Score?
The Yankees challenged the play but the call was confirmed. (Emphasis on offense, hiyo!) They had one runner reach third base and one other runner reach second base.
“It’s frustrating, ” Brett Gardner said. “If we keep doing that, we’re going to win a lot of games”.
A-Rod went 2-for-4 with a home run and a double, driving in four of the Yankees’ seven runs in the loss. They were the only two lefties in the lineup as Brian McCann and Didi Gregorius did not start. Rodriguez told him he would be happy to hand over his bat if he hit a home run. It’s not a complicated formula, but it’s one that had been eluding the Yankees for most of the season.
The Mets started the season 2-5 with a four-game losing streak.
Chasen Shreve allowed a run(s) for the third time in his last four outings, and in the one scoreless outing he faced one batter and threw literally one pitch. Eovaldi loaded the bases with two singles and a walk before Hanley Ramirez smoked a single up the middle, bringing home Dustin Pedroia and Xander Bogearts to make it 3-all.
A solo home run by Minnesota’s Byung Ho Park was the only damage done against Zimmermann, who actually saw his ERA go up to 0.55.
The pattern repeated itself in the fifth. In 6.2 innings, Tanaka (no decision) allowed two runs on six hits with no walks and five strikeouts. “We haven’t done what we did tonight in a long time [and] I’ll take our chances with the back-end of our bullpen”.
The Yankees closed to within 8-7 in the eighth when Starlin Castro doubled and scored on a wild pitch by Koji Uehara. Craig Kimbrel pitched the ninth for his eighth save.
Time and again this season, the Red Sox have been able to erase big leads by the opposition. “The guys in this room have to get it done, collectively”.
“That’s not a good start”, Teixeira said.
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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, left, talks with Miami Marlins manager Don Mattingly during batting practice prior to a baseball game, Thursday, April 28, 2016, in Los Angeles. “But we’ve got an accomplished group, so they’re confident and we’re definitely confident in their abilities”. “I think that speaks volumes to the confidence this team has and the grind-it out approach and not giving away at-bats away”. “We expect better things from ourselves”.
