Tanaka pitched 7 2/3 innings, struck out seven and walked none.
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“The past three games, I’ve been gradually getting better”, he said. They are now the ones sitting in first place and a sweep against the Orioles would keep the momentum pushing forward.
Ellsbury got off to a slow start when he first came off of the DL earlier in the month, but he’s shown signs of heating up this week. Jacoby Ellsbury led off with a single, Brett Gardner and Alex Rodriguez walked to load the bases. The Yankees had the bases loaded with no one out.
Jimenez almost escaped the inning unscathed, striking out Mark Teixeira and inducing a flyout from Carlos Beltran. Gregorius followed with an RBI single for a 4-0 cushion.
Despite manager Buck Showalter’s pronouncements that the starting rotations at both Triple-A Norfolk and Double-A Bowie are all made up of homegrown talent, whom would you want out of the starters at the Orioles’ top two farm teams if you were an opposing general manager?
The Yankees challenged a pickoff call in the bottom of first.
And in the third, the Yankees added even more.
“I just said, ‘Go play baseball, ‘ ” Torre said Thursday at his Safe at Home Foundation’s Golf and Tennis Classic at Sleepy Hollow Country Club. He improved to 6-0 with 1.34 ERA in his career against the Mets.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. | Jarrod Dyson hit a two-run single in the eighth inning to lead Kansas City to the victory.
Giants 7, Padres 1: Brandon Belt hit a tying solo home run in the sixth inning and Buster Posey hit a go-ahead, two-run double in the seventh to lead visiting San Francisco.
The big boppers in the middle of the Bombers’ lineup weren’t the reasons for Thursday’s hit parade and run barrage. Left fielder David Lough misjudged the sinking liner, and slid for it, but it skipped past him, putting the Yankees up 9-1. And his home runs/fly ball percentage, 17.9 percent, would make him the league’s undisputed champ, more than a full percentage point ahead of Sabathia, the current leader at 16.7. He did give up home runs to Chris Davis, J.J. The three men combined to go 7-12 with two RBI, while crossing home plate three times. Hardy and Manny Machado also hit solo homers off Tanaka in the eighth.
Jimenez had his worst outing of the season, allowing seven runs and eight hits in 2 1/3 innings. Here are my instant thoughts from today’s 9-3 win.
Right-hander Ivan Nova (2-3) made the home runs stand up, allowing two runs and three hits over six innings.
Latos (4-6) struck out seven, matching his season high for the second straight game, and walked one. After Chris Davis flew out, Wieters sent a sharp single to right where Young didn’t come up with it cleanly, negating any chance of a play at the plate for Paredes.
Capuano would remain in for the ninth and got the first two outs before Girardi returned to the bullpen and brought in Branden Pinder. In today’s edition, we talk about the O’s losing another one run game to the New York Yankees, the possibility of the Birds trading Kevin Gausman, and a nice day in the Orioles minor leagues.
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The Yankees will now head out to Minnesota for a series against the Twins starting tomorrow at 8:10 eastern.
