NY remained two games behind for the second AL wild card.
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TWINS 8, TIGERS 1: Jorge Polanco homered and drove in four runs, Brian Dozier added three more hits to his torrid second half and Minnesota won at Detroit.
“It’s good. I got treatment on it”.
“I don’t think you can forget the positive homestand that we had”.
More than finalizing the pitching matchups in Arizona, it sets up what has been obvious for over a week – that Clayton Kershaw, Rich Hill and Kenta Maeda will start the three games next week against the Giants, from September 19-21 at Dodger Stadium.
After a sacrifice bunt put both runners in scoring position, Kershaw regained his footing and struck out Rob Refsnyder and Austin Romine to end the threat – and his day.
Judge stayed in the game and finished the at-bat despite Joe Girardi and a member of the team’s training staff coming out of the dugout to examine him. And Kershaw showed his mettle after returning from the second rain delay, a 48-minute affair.
Kershaw gave a quick fist pump after the escape. The ability to wait back on offspeed pitches-breaking balls; to drive these pitches to the opposite field with regularity.
“The way he was running told me he was trying to gut it out”, said Girardi.
Luis Avilan (2-0) got four outs and Kenley Jansen pitched the ninth, matching his career high with 44 saves in 50 chances. Turner took third on a long fly out and scored when Betances airmailed Yasmani Grandal’s comebacker over catcher Gary Sanchez’s head, and L.A. led, 2-0.
With Dellin Betances having just entered the game, Starlin Castro’s error allowed Corey Seager to reach base before he stole second.
Yankees: RHP Michael Pineda (6-11, 5.07) is 0-1 with a 4.65 ERA in his past six starts.
The Dodgers went 10-10 in interleague play this season, including a 5-3 mark at AL East parks.
The under is 7-1-3 in the Yankees last 11 Thursday games and the Yankees are 8-2 in their last 10 overall while going 8-2 in their last 10 games on grass.
But when the Yankees took the field for the top of the fifth, Judge was en route to the clubhouse. “Obviously we’re trying to make a push here for the playoffs, so it definitely hurts”, Betances said.
With a fourth consecutive division title now feeling inevitable, the more welcome news Wednesday for the Dodgers was the fact that Kershaw was more himself in his second start than he was in Miami on Friday, his first big-league start after spending 75 days on the DL with a herniated disc in his back.
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CHICAGO – Jose Abreu went 2-for-4 with two RBIs, and Chicago relied on a season-best, seven-run inning to pull away from Cleveland. “Since I grew up a Red Sox fan I really wanted to beat the Yankees”. The Dodgers have won all three games started by Giants ace Madison Bumgarner against them, batting.311 against his lefty slinging. The Dodgers, who left Brooklyn for Los Angeles after the 1957 season, made their only prior regular-season trip to Yankee Stadium in 2013, splitting a doubleheader.
