It was Cano’s seventh home run of the year and his first homer at Yankee Stadium as an opposing player.
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NEW YORK (AP) Michael Pineda thought he pitched OK.
Robinson Cano heard the jeers, all right.
Tanaka said teams have studied his splitter, and he needs to polish it and make other adjustments. “He’s a great clutch hitter”.
After Tanaka threw seven strong innings, the one-two punch of Dellin Betances and Andrew Miller was on full display Friday night. Enter the man who made that discussion necessary: Cano, who said Friday that he no longer feels like a stranger with the Mariners. “I think his fastball command is better”.
The Yanks continue their ongoing 2015 promotions with one of their best yet, as Sunday’s game yields a free 2000 World Series Replica Ring.
In Philadelphia, Jeff Francoeur hit a pinch-hit three-run home run in the Phillies’ four-run eighth inning. “So sometimes you tip your hat”.
Kyle Seager. He went 2 for 3 off of Masahiro Tanaka.
Jacoby Ellsbury and Brett Gardner started the sixth with singles but Iwakuma struck out Alex Rodriguez for the third time and got Mark Teixeira on a grounder.
The Yankees made it interesting in the bottom of the ninth against closer Carson Smith. “My off-speed was sharp, a lot of them were going from strike to ball and they were swinging at them”.
Refsnyder grounded to first to end the inning.
“If you take away Seager, he was really good”, chuckled Yankee manager Joe Girardi.
The most important game of the season to date for the Seattle Mariners?
That Cano had a hand in that final out was fitting after he answered loud boos from the sellout crowd by producing the 14th multi-homer game of his career. The one oozing with talent that tantalized Seattle fans for seven season before exiting to the Texas Rangers and the largest contract in baseball history at the time. It was his first two-homer game since July 1, 2013, when he was still playing for the Yankees.
The Mariners experienced it on Friday night. He paid for a curve that got too much of the plate.
His second two-run homer of the day gave the Mariners a 4-2 lead in the sixth.
Brewers 4, Pirates 1 – Gerardo Parra had three hits, two RBIs and scored twice, Mike Fiers scattered three hits over seven solid innings, and Milwaukee topped visiting Pittsburgh.
Mariners: LHP Charlie Furbush (biceps tendinitis) was feeling discomfort in his throwing arm so the team slowed the steady reliever’s progress in his throwing program.
Carlos Beltran was expected to leave Florida for New York following a rehab assignment and probably will be activated from the disabled list today, Girardi said.
Mariners: LHP J.A. Happ is set to return from the Class A Bakersfield roster and start Monday night in Detroit. Montero is 1 for 8 since rejoining the Mariners.
That home run was Rodriguez’s 19th of the season, the most he’s had in a year since 2010 when he hit 30 and drove in 125. “You’ve got to look for a mistake, basically”.
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