In fact, a measure of how impressive A-Rod’s home run was to be seen in his next at-bat, when Orioles starter Kevin Gausman – against whom Rodriguez had come in batting.455, 5-for-11 with two home runs – walked him on four pitches, or his third at-bat, when Gausman sent him sprawling with an 0-2 fastball that buzzed in at 98 miles per hour. New York LF Brett Gardner is 6-for-16 with a homer and two runs scored in his last four contests.3.
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As a result, they have narrowed the deficit in the standings and now sit only 6.5 games out of the AL East and five out of the second Wild Card spot. NY is 47-46 overall, 26-20 at home and 44-40-9 with the under.
NY was 4-2 before dropping to 9-17 and later got above.500 at 31-30 and 37-36 only to regress.
His bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the sixth got Jacoby Ellsbury to score, notching him his second RBI of the night. Nick Goody followed and struck out the side in a flawless ninth, giving the Yankees’ No Runs DMC trio a rest.
Orioles: RHP Vance Worley (2-0, 2.87) makes his first start since moving to the bullpen following two starts in April.
Worley made his third start for the Orioles and allowed three runs and three hits in 4 1/3 innings.
NOTES: Baltimore 1B Chris Davis (stomach virus) took batting practice and ground balls but missed his third straight game.
They have a deep salary, All-Star talent, with players like Mark Teixeira, Masahiro Tanaka, and Chase Headley, but they are not exactly winning games left and right. Time is running down for the team’s decision whether to buy or sell as the August 1 trade deadline approaches.
“Terrible”, the switch-hitting first baseman said. “I’m not sure if I’ve played two weeks straight”.
CC Sabathia turns 36 years old on Thursday and the New York Yankees hope to make it a festive occasion for the veteran left-hander when they go for a four-game sweep of the visiting Baltimore Orioles.
Arrieta retired 14 of the first 15 Mets hitters, including 12 consecutive following Yoenis Cespedes’ single in the first. It was the 11th time in 87 career starts Pineda did not allow a run. Last year’s NL Cy Young Award victor got back on track after allowing four or more earned runs in three consecutive starts for the first time since 2012.
Syndergaard gave up one unearned run on seven hits through 5⅔ innings. Gausman struck out Rodriguez swinging at a splitter in the dirt on the next pitch.
Tillman’s record is 11 games above.500 for the first time since he was 16-5 after a win over the Yankees on September 9, 2013.
After a start that included Michael Pineda getting out of multiple jams, the Yankees were able to blank the Orioles in a 5-0 win at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York.
BREWERS 9, PIRATES 5: Jonathan Lucroy had three RBI as Milwaukee won at Pittsburgh.
The Yankees (48-46) matched a season high by going two games over.500.
Harrison’s drive off Tyler Thornburg was just out of the reach of Milwaukee center fielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis.
With one out, Perez sent a liner toward the mound that drilled Taillon on the back of the head. So hopefully I can stay on the field … and help this team win some games. Teixeira, who has played 64 of the Yankees’ 94 games, was on the disabled list from June 4-25 with a right knee cartilage tear.
Francisco Lindor added a solo shot in the ninth for Cleveland. Gallardo hasn’t gotten a decision in his last three outings; he is 2-0 with a 5.04 ERA in six starts since he was activated June 18 following a stint on the DL caused by right biceps tendinitis.
Scott Kazmir (8-3) gave up one run and four hits in seven innings, striking out eight. Gallardo isn’t too great either, but the Orioles are surprisingly 7-3 when he has started. The first five innings were a nice rebound. We haven’t scored a ton of runs; tonight we scored nearly as many as we did in the first four games.
He was coming off 10 days’ rest, though, and used just 37 pitches over his final three innings.
McCann and Jose Iglesias both struck out to end it.
Milone allowed two runs and four hits in 8⅓ innings. But all Rodriguez could manage was one hit in 10 at-bats against the Red Sox, and that was an infield hit, a dribbler that traveled all of 40 feet.
New York Yankees’ Carlos Beltran runs past Baltimore Orioles relief pitcher Chaz Roe (65) after hitting a home run during the eighth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, July 20, 2016, in New York. Tuesday’s win was a 7-1 job over the O’s.
Tommy Joseph homered for Philadelphia, which lost its third straight.
Adeiny Hechavarria opened the 10th with a double off David Hernandez (1-3).
The Tigers wasted a good start by Justin Verlander, who gave up a run and two hits in eight innings.
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The game between the Padres and Cardinals in St. Louis was postponed because of anticipated storms.
