They almost pounced in the first inning again thanks to back-to-back singles from Alex Rodriguez and Teixeira, but once Hughes got Brian McCann to end the inning, it was smooth sailing.
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Three homers off the pitching of Max Scherzer boosted the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 7-5 win over the Washington Nationals and a first career seven-inning shut-out from Jose Quintana allowed the Chicago White Sox to ease to a 6-0 win over the Cleveland Indians.
Until the Yankees’ power shower in the ninth, it appeared Sabathia had placed the Yankees in an early ditch too deep to escape from. Pineda is 5-3 with a 4.11 ERA in eight road starts this season.Hughes has not lost since June 8 and is coming off a seven-inning stint at Oakland on Saturday in which he allowed one run but did not factor in the decision.
Rodriguez has 23 homers this season and 677 in his career.
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Andrew Miller pitched a ideal ninth for his 23rd save.
For decades, the New York Yankees have been known as the “Bronx Bombers”.
“He competes and that’s what CC always does”.
“It’s something that he and Larry took time to work on the last three weeks, pretty heavily”, manager Joe Girardi said Friday.
Angels: Garrett Richards (10-6, 3.24 ERA) has ramped up to last season’s near-unhittable form, capped by a shutout of Boston in his last start.
Adam Warren came out of the bullpen to punch out Hicks on a 3-2 pitch down in the strike zone that ended the inning and which Minnesota manager Paul Molitor took exception to. “I know a lot of those guys over there”, Hughes said. Molitor screamed into Nelson’s face.
Sabathia gave up five runs on six hits and three walks with three strikeouts.
Minnesota tacked on two runs against Pineda in the fourth, getting a leadoff single from Plouffe and another double by Rosario, this one down the right-field line.
For six innings Saturday, they were befuddled by lefty Tommy Milone, who was hurt by his fielders in the seventh.
Mark Teixeira drove a double over the head of Hicks in center, ending Milone’s night. The total, meanwhile, is sitting at 8 runs for tonight’s game. Considering that Rodriguez came to the plate first in the ninth inning, that was an important run.
The San Diego Padres were 3-1 winners over the Miami Marlins and the Seattle Mariners were 5-2 winners against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Minnesota left seven runners on base in a frustrating three-inning stretch against C.J. Miguel Sano, 22, signed by the Twins as a 16-year-old out of the Dominican Republic, then muscled a hanging slider over the wall in dead center for his third homer and a 2-0 lead. Hunter’s 208th homer as a Twin moved him ahead of Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett into sixth place on the club’s all-time list.
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Twins outfielder Eddie Rosario went 3-for-4 with three doubles and scored each time he was on base with RBI singles by Kurt Suzuki (twice) and Aaron Hicks (once). Dozier opened the inning with a single to left and Hicks crushed an 0-1 breaking ball into the Yankees’ bullpen in left-center.
