Cleveland left no doubt about Friday’s game.
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Chapman, after recording four outs in the ninth and 10th, came out for one more inning after McCann’s clutch hit.
For Francisco Lindor (l.), Jason Kipnis and the Indians, this one is a laugher.
The Yankees also took advantage of a pair of umpire challenges.
The Yankees tied it in the third when Carlos Beltran hit a line-drive single to right field with one out and brought in Gardner.
Cleveland Indians Corey Kluber pitches during the second inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Friday, July 8, 2016, in Cleveland. For the Yankees it will be the end of a long 10-game trip to San Diego, Chicago and Cleveland.
NY went on to beat the Indians 7-6 on Brian McCann’s RBI double in the 11th on Saturday afternoon. Markakis homered twice and had three RBIs against the Cubbies, whose division lead is down to eight games over St. Louis and 8 ½ over Pittsburgh.
This will be the last o a four-game set.
Carrasco is on a hot streak of his own, winning three games in a row. He walked five and allowed two runs and four hits.
The Indians led off the bottom of the first inning with back-to-back home runs against Yankees starter Chad Green (1-2, 7.04 ERA). Just like that, the game was 6-5 in favor of the Yankees. Salazar served up a 95.2 miles per hour fastball that Gregorius launched into the right field seats for a two-run home run.
Kipnis added his second solo homer of the night in the seventh off Anthony Swarzak, accounting for a season-high five homers for the Indians.
Indians: OF Michael Brantley (right shoulder soreness) will learn Sunday when his minor league rehab assignment will begin. “It’s a fun moment to hit a ball like that”.
There are losses, and then there are games like this which infuriate the masses. That includes three straight over the Rangers.
Hill (9-3) allowed three hits and one run to extend his winning streak to six games. The three-time AL MVP is batting.
NY s other run was a RBI double by McCann in the ninth off Joe Colon, making his major league debut.
Francisco Lindor singled off Andrew Miller to start the inning.
Despite the All-Star break providing a reprieve, each member of “No Runs DMC” threw over 20 pitches, so expecting them to be available might be stretch. The night’s only blemish in Cleveland’s 10-1 blowout victory was James McCann’s solo homer in the seventh. Mark Reynolds also homered and drove in five Rockies runs. He allowed four runs in 1/3 of an inning Wednesday in a 12-2 home loss to Detroit. Cleveland scored again in the fifth to make it 5-3. Speaking of which, DiMaggio bested Williams for American League MVP in 1941, even though Williams hit.
Indians: RHP Zach McAllister (right hip discomfort) was placed on the 15-day DL. The 30-year-old Kluber is 8-8 with a 3.79 ERA and a team-high 114 strikeouts.
Mets pitcher Matt Harvey could be done for the season after a specialist determined the one-time All-Star has symptoms consistent with thoracic outlet syndrome. “We had to use our bullpen hard today”, and with the All-Star break beginning on Monday, “I was willing to do it”. He has made 19 relief appearances with the Yankees with no record and a 4.91 ERA. The lowest total score in a round in U.S. Open history is a 63 by Helen Alfredsson in 1994 at the par-71 Indianwood in MI.
In the past three days, the Yankees have had two of their most impressive wins of the year.
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It is Cavendish’s 29th overall stage win, putting him in second place, five back of all-time leader Eddy Merckx. He’ll take tomorrow off and should play Sunday.
