An All-Star past year, Archer leads the majors in the losses this season – James Shields, who has lost 17 with the Padres and White Sox, pitched Saturday night.
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New York Yankees’ Brian McCann follows through on a solo home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, in New York. NY 1Bs Mark Teixeira and Tyler Austin are a combined 4-for-9 with two homers, five RBIs and three runs scored in this series.2. 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.
Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Hernan Perez, left, and center fielder Keon Broxton can not come up with a ball hit by St. Louis Cardinals’ Jedd Gyorko during the third inning of a baseball game, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, in St. Louis. “If they throw it over the plate, it’s probably going to be one of the softer pitches that you see in your career”.
Archer leads the majors in the losses this season – James Shields, who has lost 17 with the Padres and White Sox, pitched Saturday night. “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”.
“Ever since I started playing baseball professionally, I never evaluated myself based off win-loss”, he said.
Tanaka has quietly pitched his way into the Cy Young conversation with a 3.04 ERA that’s third-best in the American League.
Evan Scribner and Nick Vincent combined for three scoreless innings and rookie Edwin Diaz pitched a ideal ninth for his 13th save in 14 chances.
The Yankees started this game with the chance to extend their winning streak to six games, and they were able to do just that!
That’s how Archer wants it.
“The ball was a little bit off my hand and then I throw”. New York Yankees fans called him out for a curtain call. Tampa Bay OF Steven Souza Jr.is 5-for-8 with three homers, four RBIs and as many runs scored in the series and 12-for-41 in the season set versus the Yankees.3.
GAME STUFF: The Rays (58-82) had runners on second in the first two innings but were shut out until the eighth when Bobby Wilson homered, his sixth.
Rays left-hander Enny Romero attempted to intentionally walk Sanchez in the eight inning of Saturday’s game, with a runner on third base.
Rookie Gary Sanchez and Jacoby Ellsbury have been flexing their muscle at the plate as the New York Yankees continue their startling transformation from sellers at the trade deadline to unexpected postseason contenders. “That’s embarrassing, but we’re not going to talk about it any farther than that”.
Sanchez connected for the second straight day, giving the 23-year-old catcher 13 home runs in 125 at-bats this season. Then Mark Teixeira hit a one-out double to left, and advanced to third after Didi Gregorius grounded out.
Ellsbury picked on a familiar victim when he lined his eighth home run, a shot into the right-center field seats. Franklin got looked at by the trainer and stayed in the game. “And I think it just comes down to how consistent he is to making the pitch and keeping the ball down”.
“Yeah, I was surprised”, said Pineda, who seemed to linger on the mound momentarily in disbelief as Girardi took the ball from him. The spray chart tool shows that only eleven home runs have been hit to right field by a right-handed hitter on an inside pitch.
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Miller (elbow) is hitting cleanup as the Rays’ DH on Friday against the Yankees, the Tampa Bay Times’ Marc Topkin reports.
