Andrew Miller was in the Indians’ bullpen.
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That’s one of the reasons the Red Sox were so interested in Carlos Beltran at the deadline: his reputation as someone who can produce the big hit in the big spot.
New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira is retiring at the end the season, he said on Friday. And the light buzz the Subway Series created was swept away with the peanut shells and beer cups.
Castro turned on a 1-0 offering from Tomlin, blasting it into the right-field stands for his first career grand slam, putting the Yanks up, 6-0.
Mark Teixeira is going to announce his retirement this afternoon, effective at the end of this season.
In fact, over the first three seasons of Teixeira’s contract with the Yankees the Red Sox’ first basemen outproduced NY at the position (.888 OPS vs.863 OPS).
The Yankees defeated the Mets 9-5.
When he arrived at spring training in February, Teixeira said “I’d love to play five more years. I thought he did a nice job”.
McCann hit an RBI double in the third and, with runners at second and third, Tomlin intentionally walked Chase Headley.
A Georgia father has been arrested in the deaths of 15-month-old twin girls found in a hot auto, after neighbors frantically tried to revive the toddlers with ice packs in a baby pool outside Atlanta, authorities said. But with him on the sidelines by the time the one game playoff came around, the Yankees didn’t have much of a shot. But Morimando would not only give up two runs in the sixth, but would expend over 40 pitches just to get through that inning.
The Indians went on to score four runs combined over the top of the seventh and eighth innings, but the Yankees answered with four of their own in their final two at-bats.
Indians (61-46) pitchers surrendered 16 hits and 13 runs, all of which were earned, in a 13-7 loss to the Yankees (55-54).
Reliever Nick Goody worked in and out of trouble in the ninth to close out the game. “And he’s got to hit”, he said of the rookie, who doubled in the fifth.
Jacoby Ellsbury had a four-hit game, and Michael Pineda (6-10) won for the third time in four outings following a six-start winless streak, allowing four runs and six hits in six-plus innings. Brett Gardner, the only other remaining Yankee from the 2009 championship team, is signed through 2018. Yet, he will be a free agent after next season, so it might be wise to see what the inconsistent right-hander can bring back in a deal.
There is no danger in that happening with Sanchez, whom the Yankees have installed as their No. 1 prospect.
Pomeranz walked six hitters – one intentional – in six innings Thursday night.
“I felt great today out there”, said Sanchez, called up from Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday “I felt comfortable”.
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“Gimenez hung in there on a breaking ball enough to kind of get us that three, at least make it interesting”, Francona said.
