The Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays both hit 15 runs in their respective wins. Adrian Beltre hit a grand slam and Martin Perez pitched seven strong innings for his first win since late June, leading Texas to a win at home.
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It was actually a run that started during the second half of last season after Happ, for the fourth time in five years, was dealt at the trade deadline, this time from the Seattle Mariners to the Pittsburgh Pirates. It takes the edge off right away, you know? They still weren’t done, batting around and manufacturing runs getting to a grand total of eight in the eighth. A shutdown 6th and 7th from Feldman would keep the Jays right on the Yankees tail. It was a full count changeup from Marco Estrada, a certifiable changeup master. It’s safe to say he had plenty left in the tank before the Yankees had to pull him following the delay that lasted a little over 40 minutes. It was pretty cool. That gave the Yankees a 2-0 lead.
Impressive rookie Gary Sanchez homered twice for NY, including a titanic, three-run drive deep into the rarely reached second deck in left field at Yankee Stadium. Estrada left a 79 miles per hour changeup up in the zone, so he basically gave Sanchez a batting practice fastball, and he unloaded on it.
That is some bat speed right there I’ll tell you what. The gentleman’s bat flip. He must have learned that from Alex Rodriguez.
Sanchez’s first chance at reaching the seats came in the second inning with two out and nobody on base.
Sanchez is hitting.372 with three doubles, four homers and 10 RBI in 11 games since being recalled from the minors on August 3.
Green’s dominant outing was all the more impressive considering he had made just four big-league starts prior to Monday’s contest, and he was called-up from Triple-A earlier in the day to make a spot start. The Yankees’ cheapest remains home game will be played against the Blue Jays on September 5, however, as the MasterCard $5 Game offers tickets from, you guessed it, just $5. Pineda threw five shutout innings before the skies opened in the middle of the fifth inning. Then it started raining and the tarp was put on the field.
But the delay cost the Yankees the services of Pineda, who was cruising. The Yankees didn’t want to push him after sitting that long. Everything after that was a nightmare. Toronto ranks sixth with 567 runs. Devon Travis doubled and came around to score on a throwing error on third baseman Chase Headley on a slow chopper by Josh Donaldson.
It’s going to be great.
Swarzak replaced Pineda in the sixth and did what Anthony Swarzak does: give up dingers. A 4 run top of the sixth that included back to back home runs from Troy Tulowitzki and Russell Martin would have the Jays in striking distance.
The Chicago Cubs enjoyed a pair of victories in their double-header against the Milwaukee Brewers, winning 4-0 and 4-1. The Yankees only had to get nine more outs to clinch the win, and their back-end relievers were fresh. Tyler Clippard pitched a ideal 7th. Good. This is good. The lefty leads baseball with 37 saves and his 0.54 ERA is on pace to be the lowest ever among pitchers with 50 or more innings (all stats before Tuesday night’s games). Fastballs, sliders, changeups, curves … everything. “I was just wondering how he has going to get him out”. He puts together tough at-bats like that. The Blue Jays have a 53-9 record when outhitting opponents.
Ex-Yankee Russell Martin followed with a huge home run to left-center, cutting the Yankees lead to 6-4 and ending Swarzak’s night.
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“Adam’s been really good, and I think sometimes when you do something like that, it kind of freaks everybody out in a sense”, he said. Encarnacion is known to do that. We definitely got a little bit lucky, we got Pineda out of the game. Utley finished two-for-five with five runs driver in. Edwin Encarnacion, the next batter, hit his 34th home run of the season while driving in his 100th RBI of the season-already! Suddenly that 6-0 lead had become an 8-6 deficit.
