Calhoun, Trout and Pujols hit consecutive home runs to lead a six-run first inning against starter Taijuan Walker (4-10). NY could muster just two hits against four pitchers.Jonathan Holder entered the game in the last of the sixth to pitch for the Yankees as he made his Major League Baseball debut.
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The Cardinals were hoping to start a final-month surge toward the playoffs – they’re in position to get the NL’s second wild card berth behind San Francisco. NY could muster just two hits against four pitchers. One night earlier, the Yankees got a pair of singles in an 8-0 defeat.
The win gave the Orioles (74-61) their first series win against a division opponent since their first series after the All-Star break after five straight series losses against American League East rivals.
When the Tigers need a win the most, they just can not seem to get one against the Royals. After going into sell mode but continuing to compete, Girardi’s club again finds itself playing for the season with weeks still to go.
“I think we’ve envisioned him as a starter, but the way our team was constructed this year, that was where he fit our team the best”, Girardi said. “Just something I wasn’t used to”, Green said.
Unlike the Birds’ four-homer blowout of the Yankees the previous night, their offense barely scraped across enough runs to get by during their September 3 contest.
In this series, Dylan Bundy started and threw 5 2/3 shutout innings Friday while Kevin Gausman blanked NY for six frames the following day.
Giants ace Madison Bumgarner struck out 10 batters in six innings while allowing just two runs to outduel Jake Arrieta and beat the Cubs, improving to 14-8 with a 2.51 ERA on the season.
Zach Britton, the third Baltimore reliever, worked a ideal ninth for his 40th save in 40 opportunities. It also pulled them within two games of the division-leading Toronto Blue Jays, who lost Saturday. All it got him was another loss against the Orioles, the third in a row since mid-July.
I feel like Sabathia will be able to keep things close, and with Gausman on the other side this looks like a nice spot for the under.
Girardi pointed out that hitting coaches Alan Cockrell and Marcus Thames said Judge is seeing some tough pitches. “But today we have more”. NY loaded the bases with one out before Starlin Castro struck out and Brian McCann hit a fly ball to left. Green gave up four runs in 1 2/3 innings as the Yankees had getting just two hits off Dylan Bundy and two relievers.
Veteran left-hander CC Sabathia has had a distinguished career since signing with to the New York Yankees in 2009.
Teixeira was cheered as a visiting player in Baltimore until he signed as a free agent with NY in 2009.
“You had a couple of really big-name players leave, two guys that are closers and another guy that’s a Hall of Fame hitter that’s having a great year, ” Headley said after the Yanks’ won their fourth straight series, taking two extra-inning stunners at Kansas City.
Besides, it’s not like he spurned the Orioles in 2009.
As Teixeira often has stated, the Orioles made the gesture of an offer at the time, fully knowing they could not compete with offers he’d receive from the Red Sox and Yankees. New York RHP Nick Rumbelow was reinstated from the 7-day disabled list, recalled from Triple-A, and was put on the 60-day disabled list.
Guerra left after 70 pitches over 3 1/3 innings in his first start since going to the disabled list with right elbow inflammation on August 8.
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Michael Pineda (6-11, 5.12) will go for the Yankees, and he’s also run into troubles this season.
