New York, a -144 favorite, will look to capitalize at home against Cleveland. Salazar (11-7) then gave up homers to Brett Gardner and Brian McCann in the bottom half. Pettitte has the most wins of any lefthander in the franchise’s illustrious history and his 2,020 strikeouts are the most for any Yankees pitcher. “I was watching him during the course of the game and he usually doesn’t walk people and that kind of what tipped us off that maybe something was bothering him”.
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They totaled 48 hits against a vanquished Angels pitching staff that has surrendered 44 runs, 60 hits and 15 walks over their last four games following Jered Weavers 1-0 victory over the White Sox on Wednesday. The ball skipped off of Lindor’s glove and Ellsbury raced home. Second base umpire Dan Iassogna called Lindor, who finished a triple shy of the cycle, out. He gave Yankees manager Joe Girardi the heave-ho Thursday night for arguing balls and strikes. Ivan Nova is in his first season back from Tommy John surgery and Masahiro Tanaka missed time earlier in the year with a right forearm strain and right wrist tendinitis.
Severino then got out of the inning by striking out Carlos Santana.
DETROIT (AP) – Yovani Gallardo took a shutout into the seventh inning, and the Texas Rangers spoiled Randy Wolf’s return to the major leagues. Bauer struck out seven and walked a season-high six, throwing 109 pitches.
The switch-hitting shortstop had his second straight three-hit game and homered in consecutive games for the first time in his brief career. I’m just glad I ended up getting in the cab before everything went down.
New York Yankees left-hander CC Sabathia exited in the third inning Sunday with right knee pain and could be headed for the disabled list.
When leading after 7 innings, New York is 28-30, while Cleveland is 17-21. Drew advanced to third when Jacoby Ellsbury doubled off of Kyle Crockett.
Cleveland fell to 38-13 when scoring first. Greg Holland got Travis Shaw to pop out with the bases loaded for final out, earning his 28th save. The plan was thwarted when Ramirez was caught stealing second on a 1-2 pitch. He walked six, however, including Stephen Drew to begin the frame. “The last couple of starts, you guys have seen”.
Lonnie Chisenhall had an RBI single off Dellin Betances in the eighth, ending the big reliever’s scoreless stretch at 18 appearances dating to July 8.
RHP Cody Anderson (strained left oblique) will pitch three innings in a rehab game Monday for Single-A Lake County. He had a bullpen session Friday.
But he said he feels fine, and that he threw a 20-pitch bullpen session Sunday. The Indians saw a two game winning streak end in a 6-2 defeat at the Yankees on Saturday afternoon.
Carlos Santana homered off Sabathia for the Indians, who have won five of their last six games at Yankee Stadium. The right-hander out of UCLA is 1-3 with a 5.85 ERA in four starts versus the Yankees (68-54). But the pain roared back while he warmed up before Sunday’s start and after he struck out Yan Gomes with a 91-mph fastball in the third inning Sunday, he couldn’t take anymore.
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But he showed some improvement in his recent outings, allowing only three runs over his last two starts.
