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It was the right-hander’s first major league outing since he started for the Yankees at Tampa Bay on May 14 past year.
The long ball did not affect him when the Yankees averaged eight runs in his four winning decisions, but that abruptly ended Sunday in a 4-2 loss to the Rays. “Let’s use our heads here a little bit”.
Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Brad Miller (elbow) is back in the starting lineup Friday against the New York Yankees.
Manager Joe Girardi looks at matchups and checks on Teixeira’s health before deciding who starts. “Every team is in front of us and the guys have done a tremendous job”. You can kinda see the movement on the ball in the screen grab. The strikeout featured 1) great pitching from Tanaka, and 2) a wide zone from Tim Timmons, something both pitchers would take advantage of all day. He fanned rookie Gary Sanchez for the first out and also got ground ball by Brian McCann, whom Whitley was tempted to say something to in a joking manner about the Yankee designated hitter missing “a good to pitch to hit”.
On Aug. 2, the Yankees were 53-53 with five losses in six games. Youngsters changed the complexion of a team that was not expected to be playing meaningful baseball this month, and teams ahead of the Yankees continued to struggle and allowed them to get back in the AL wildcard picture that narrowed their gap also for the division title.
In San Diego, Ryan Schimpf hit a three-run homer and tied a career-high with four RBIs and Clayton Richard pitched seven scoreless innings as the Padres routed Colorado 14-1. Winning certainly helps, but it does feel like the new generation of the club is beginning to take shape during this stretch run.
A source of consistency in this season of surprise and upheaval, Tanaka was at his best on Saturday, asserting himself as a legitimate Cy Young candidate with a 5-1 gem of a win against the Rays at Yankee Stadium. The home run was the big hit in the game, and was a welcomed sight for Teixeira. But I sensed that if I kept at it, eventually they would go after those, and I could get a lot of outs early in counts. “You’re never sure how they’re going to perform, how they’re going to handle situations”. “I think about the games in Kansas City, the one against Toronto and they just keep fighting back”.
Making his first major league start, Paulino (0-1) gave up four runs and four hits in three innings.
Tampa Bay got a run back in the eighth when Bobby Wilson hit a one-out homer off Tanaka, but the Yankees put the game away in the bottom of the inning when a single by Gardner and double by Ellsbury led two sacrifice flies by Sanchez and Didi Gregorius. The Kraken wasn’t done, though, producing one of the most entertaining runs the Yankees have scored all year in the eighth inning. “Today as a whole was a lot more beneficial to my growing and getting to the point where I need to”, Cobb said.
The over is 10-1 in Tampa Bay’s last 11 road games and is 10-1 in their last 11 on grass while going is 27-6 in their last 33 overall.
Since, they’ve won 24 of 37 games to build a nobody-saw-this-coming 76-65 record.
Matt Andriese (7-7, 4.46 ERA) picks up the win and Alex Colome worked the ninth for his 32nd save in 34 opportunities. “On top of that, when you’re facing a guy like Archer who’s a really good pitcher, it’s really hard to score on him”.
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He is 0-2 with a 7.53 ERA in four appearances against the Yankees. The 27-year-old has been taken deep 10 times in his last six contests, with four coming in an 8-4 loss to the Yankees on August 13.
