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Lock Percival takes the place of club captain Dean Schofield, who drops to the bench, but it is otherwise the same pack which were defeated 13-6 by Perpignan in the Amlin Challenge Cup last time out.
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McCann-ical: Yankee Catcher's 5 RBIs Dumps Jays
For most of the season, the Yankees have been wondering where their All-Star slugging catcher Brian McCann was because the one they have been watching was hitting ,220 with seven homers and 28 RBIs. Well, cross your fingers and do a sign of the cross, but there was a rare McCann sighting at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday night.
McCann lined a two-run home run to put the Yankees ahead and later added a three-run triple as part of a career-best-tying five RBIs to lead New York past Toronto to bring them to within 2 1/2 games of the first-place Blue Jays in the American League East.
A paid crowd of 41,342 in the Bronx, N.Y., watched the Yankees win their 15th consecutive game over the Blue Jays at home.
Chase Whitley (3-0), buoyed by an early 1-0 lead, held the Blue Jays scoreless until the fourth inning when he was stung by back-to-back two-out RBI singles by Dioner Navarro and Colby Rasmus, who was just activated from the 15-day disabled list prior to the game.
But the Yankees were able to answer in the bottom of the fourth against left-hander Mark Buehrle (10-4), who has now lost his past three starts.
Carlos Beltran led of the frame with a single and McCann, after battling Buehrle to a 2-2 count in a nine-pitch at-bat, lined a curveball into the second row of the bleachers in right-field to give the Yankees a lead they would not relinquish the rest of the evening.
The home run was McCann's eighth of the season but his first since May 23 at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago.
Buehrle was also touched for an unearned run in the first inning when Brett Gardner led off with a single, one of his four singles on the night. Derek Jeter then reached when Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie misplayed Jeter's slow roller into an error.
Two batters later, another one of the Yankees struggling sluggers, Alfonso Soriano, slapped Buehrle's first pitch up the middle to score Gardner.
Buehrle was charged with three runs (two earned) on six hits and two walks with four strikeouts in six innings.
Whitley, however, was able to hold on for his third straight victory and the Yankees are now 7-0 in his starts since he was called up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on May 15. He yielded two runs on five hits and one walk with two strikeouts in five innings.
The Yankees were able to put the game away in the seventh inning against right-hander Chad Jenkins and left-hander Brett Cecil.
Gardner singled and, two outs later, Jacoby Ellsbury and Mark Teixeira hit consecutive singles to load the bases. Blue Jays manager John Gibbons replaced Jenkins with Cecil and pinch-hitter Ichiro Suzuki drew a walk for score Gardner.
McCann then followed with a base-clearing triple into the gap in right-center to become the first Yankees catcher to hit a home run, a triple and drive in five runs in a game since Elston Howard did it in 1962.
The Blue Jays scored a run in the eighth off rookie right-hander Jose Ramirez on a leadoff double by Melky Cabrera and an RBI double off the bat of Jose Bautista. But the bullpen combination of Adam Warren, Dellin Betances and David Robertson pitched four scoreless innings on no hits, one walk and six strikeouts to close out the victory for Whitley.
The Yankees' season record is now 37-33 and they only trail the Jays by one game in the loss column in the tightly bunched A.L. East. The Blue Jays fell to 41-32.
- McCann was 2-for-3 with a walk and his five RBIs on Tuesday leave him in a tie with Teixeira for the team lead with 33. McCann, 30, a career .274 hitter, is still hitting only .226 but the Yankees are hoping that he is about to break out of what has been a prolonged power and hitting drought to provide what he did for the Atlanta Braves in his previous eight seasons.
- Gardner entered the game hitting .325 at Yankee Stadium this season and he added to it with a 4-for-5 night with four singles and two runs scored. In 30 games at home, Gardner is now 41-for-119 (.345) with four home runs and 15 RBIs. In his past nine games, Gardner is 14-for-38 (.386) with two homers and five RBIs.
- Whitley, who turned 25 on Saturday, got caught up in a heavy pitch count in trying to battle the major league's best home run hitting team. But he kept the Yankees in the game until the Yankees were able to take the lead in the fourth. Whitley's walk to Cabrera with one out in the fifth was the first he has issued since May 21 against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. In 38 2/3 innings, Whitley has walked just four batters. It looks like he is going to be a keeper in the rotation.
There are hints that the Yankees may be ready to bust out of their offensive funk and it could not have come at a better time because the Yankees are in the midst of 15 games against teams in their division. They have now won the first two of those 15 games against the best team in the division. They need to keep it going.
Left-hander CC Sabathia threw a bullpen session at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday for a second consecutive day and he is expected to throw another bullpen session on Saturday. Sabathia, who was limited to throwing just fastballs on Tuesday, mixed in some sliders on Wednesday and reported no problems with his right knee after the session. Sabathia has been sidelined since May 10 after having a stem-cell injection in his right knee. . . . Manager Joe Girardi told reporters on Wednesday that he is not considering any shakeup in the starting rotation but he is watching left-hander Vidal Nuno closely. Nuno is 1-3 with a 5.90 ERA this season and he was shelled for eight runs on eight hits in three-plus innings against the Oakland Athletics on Sunday. With right-hander Shawn Kelley back in the bullpen after a stint on the DL, Warren could be inserted into the rotation if Girardi needs to make a move.
The Yankees have a chance to sweep the first-place Blue Jays on Thursday and draw to within 1 1/2 games of the lead in the division.
Right-hander David Phelps (2-4, 4.32 ERA) gets the start for the Yankees. Phelps, 27, is coming off what may have been the best start of his career on Saturday when he shut out the A's on two hits and three walks while fanning four in 6 2/3 innings. That victory broke a string of four straight losses for Phelps.
Right-hander Drew Hutchison (5-4, 3.62 ERA) will pitch for the Blue Jays. Hutchison, 23, shut out the Baltimore Orioles on six hits with no walks and three strikeouts in seven innings for his fifth victory on Friday. He was lit up for six runs on six hits and three walks in 3 1/3 innings by the Yankees in Toronto on April 6.
Game-time will be 7:05 p.m. EDT and the game will be broadcast by the YES Network.
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Tanaka Earns 11th Win As Yankees Top Blue Jays
Whispers around the American League caution teams that to beat Masahiro Tanaka you better get to him early in the count and in the game. The Toronto Blue Jays applied that game plan in Tanaka's first major-league start and again on Tuesday and it did not work either time.
In Tanaka's major-league debut, Melky Cabrera led off the game with a home run and the Blue Jays lost the game 7-3. Jose Reyes led off Tuesday's game by hitting Tanaka's first delivery into the right-field bleachers and Toronto still lost the game.
Tanaka (11-1) pitched six innings to record his major-league-leading 11th victory as New York cut a game off the Blue Jays' lead in the American League East with a victory over Toronto in front of a paid crowd of 41,834 at Yankee Stadium.
The 25-year-old right-hander yielded just that one run on five hits and two walks and he fanned 10 to lower his A.L.-leading ERA to 1.99 and post his 14th quality start in as many games pitched.
"What he's done has been remarkable," Yankees manager Joe Girardi told reporters.
The victory also was Girardi's 600th in his career as the team's manager, the sixth skipper to reach that mark.
Tanaka and the Yankees weathered the early 1-0 deficit before taking the lead in the bottom of the third against rookie right-hander Marcus Stroman, who is a native of nearby Medford, N.Y.
Kelly Johnson laced a one-out double to the wall in right-center and Brett Gardner followed by lining a 2-1 slider off the netting of the right-field foul pole for his sixth home run of the season.
Stroman (3-2) was charged with two runs on four hits and three walks while he struck out two in 3 2/3 innings.
The Yankees pushed across another run against left-hander Aaron Loup when Derek Jeter reached on an infield single and advanced to second on a wild pitch. After Jacoby Ellsbury's groundout advanced Jeter to third, Loup made a mistake by failing to walk Mark Teixeira on a 3-1 pitch.
Instead, the switch-hitting Teixeira lined Loup's inside fastball up the middle for a one-out RBI single with the left-hand-hitting Brian McCann on deck.
Meanwhile, Tanaka got even tougher, striking out Cabrera, Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion on swinging strikes in succession in the fifth inning.
Rookie Dellin Betances pitched a perfect two innings, striking out three, and David Robertson pitched around a two-out triple by Munenori Kawasaki to notch his 17th save in 19 chances this season.
The victory improves the Yankees' season record to 36-33 and boosts them into second place in the A.L. East 3 1/2 games behind the first-place Blue Jays. The Jays are now 41-31.
- The conventional wisdom prior to the game was that because Tanaka's loss came against the only team he has faced twice this season, the Chicago Cubs, that the Blue Jays would have success against him in their second meeting. It did not happen. Tanaka was even better. "They mowed us down pretty good tonight," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons told reporters.
- If you combined the numbers this season for Tanaka, Betances and Robertson they are 15-3 with a 2.09 ERA with 224 strikeouts in 164 innings. I doubt seriously you can name a better starter and two-man bullpen combination in baseball today. They just dominate hitters and they combined on Tuesday to strike out 15 batters against the best home-run hitting team in baseball.
- Gardner was batting .344 in his past 14 home games and his home run on Tuesday was his fourth at Yankee Stadium. Overall, Gardner is hitting .325 at home this season and he also leads the Yankees in bating with runners in scoring position at .315. Despite mostly batting in the leadoff spot, Gardner is tied with McCann and Yangervis Solarte for third on the team in RBIs with 28.
The Yankees probably could have done better than just six hits against Stroman and the Blue Jays relievers but with Tanaka on the mound it just does not seem to matter. The Yankees face the Blue Jays in five of the next 10 games. So winning the first one is a good start in cutting their lead in the division.
As expected on Tuesday, the Yankees activated catcher Francisco Cervelli from the 60-day disabled list and John Ryan Murphy was optioned back to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Cervelli, 28, has been sidelined since April 13 with a torn right hamstring and just completed a 10-game minor-league rehab stint. Murphy, 22, hit .286 with a home run and eight RBIs and drew raves about his play over 24 games. Cervelli, however, was out of options and the Yankees did not want to risk losing him. . . . CC Sabathia reported no issues with his right knee of Tuesday after throwing a bullpen session at Yankee Stadium on Monday. Sabathia, 33, has been on the 15-day disabled list since May 11 after requiring a stem-cell injection to his knee when some degenerative breakdown in the cartilage was discovered by Dr. James Andrews. There is still no firm date for Sabathia's return but it likely will be sometime after the All-Star break.
The Yankees will continue their three-game midweek series with Blue Jays on Wednesday.
Rookie right-hander Chase Whitley (2-0, 2.41 ERA) will make his seventh start of the season. Whitley is 2-0 with a 2.45 ERA in past two starts including giving up just two runs on five hits with no walks and six K's in his major-league best 7 2/3 innings against the Seattle Mariners on Thursday.
Left-hander Mark Buehrle (10-3, 2.28 ERA) will pitch for the Blue Jays. Buehrle is coming off back-to-back losses and yielded four runs on eight hits and one walk in 6 1/3 innings against the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday.
Game-time will be 7:05 p.m. EDT and the game will be broadcast by the YES Network.
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Jeter's 4 Hits Backs Tanaka As Yanks Club Chisox
For the paid sellout crowd of 39,142 at U.S. Cellular Field on Sunday they witnessed the last of one great era and the precipice of a new one wearing Yankee gray.
Those who came to pay tribute to Derek Jeter in his final game in Chicago witnessed him contribute four hits, including a rare triple, and two RBIs and those who came to see rookie sensation Masahiro Tanaka saw him pitch one-run ball for 6 2/3 innings against the White Sox.
So the bridge from the past to the future was featured prominently as Jeter and Tanaka helped lead New York to a four-game series split with Chicago.
Jeter thanked the fans for their cheers and their tributes by posting his first four-hit game since Aug. 20, 2012. He also topped it off by hitting his first triple since the 2011 season as part of a seven-run, 10-attack that was the undoing of right-hander Andre Rienzo (4-1) and the two relievers that followed him.
Meanwhile, Tanaka (6-1) bounced back from his first loss in the major leagues on Tuesday to the Chicago Cubs to hold the Chisox to one run on five hits and two walks while he struck out six before he tired in the seventh inning. The 25-year-old right-hander has now posted quality starts in all 10 of his starts this season.
The Yankees made it easier for him by jumping on Rienzo for four runs in the second inning.
Yangervis Solarte started the frame by shooting a bad-hop grounder past second baseman Gordon Beckham into right for a single. One out later, Ichiro Suzuki singled up the middle and Brian Roberts loaded the bases by drawing a walk.
Brett Gardner then stroked a two-run single and, after a throwing error on Rienzo that allowed Roberts and Gardner to move up a base, Jeter rapped out an RBI single. Jacoby Ellsbury capped the rally with a sacrifice fly that scored Gardner.
The Yankees added a run in the fourth when Jeter hit a two-out triple into center and he scored when Rienzo uncorked a wild pitch.
Rienzo was touched for five runs on seven hits and two walks while he struck out seven batters in five innings.
Jeter came through again for the Yankees in the sixth off right-hander Javy Guerra when Alfonso Soriano led off the inning with a double and Jeter ripped a two-out single up the middle into center to score Soriano.
The White Sox scored their only run of the day in the bottom of the sixth off Tanaka when Tyler Flowers laced a leadoff double over the head of Gardner in left. Later in the inning, Conor Gillaspie slapped a two-out bloop single that scored Flowers to spoil the shutout bid.
Roberts capped the scoring with one out in the eighth inning off White Sox right-hander Scott Carroll by blasting his second home run of the season into the bleachers in right-center.
So after the Yankees lost 10 straight game at U.S. Cellular Field in a streak that began in 2012, the Yankees were able to recover to win the final two games of the four-game set for a split.
With the victory the Yankees boosted their season ledger to 26-23. They remain in second place in the American League East, two games behind the first-place Toronto Blue Jays. The White Sox fell to 25-27.
- After going 0-for-5 on Saturday, Jeter bounced back in a big way in his final game at U.S. Cellular Field. His 4-for-5 game raised his season average from .259 to .275. There is no doubt that Jeter is not the player he once was. But it is nice to know that the Yankee captain is still capable of games like this every so often in his final season.
- After getting knocked around for four runs (three earned) on eight hits against the Cubs, Tanaka told reporters he would make the necessary adjustments in his next start. The reporters then asked him how he would do it and he replied by saying, "Watch me." It appears he made those adjustments because there were only two really hard hit balls off him on Sunday. He did appear to tire in the seventh inning, when he issued his only two walks to Adam Dunn and Alejandro De Aza. But he lowered his ERA to 2.29. He is amazing.
- Along with Jeter, the only other Yankee starter to have a multiple-hit game was Soriano, who posted a pair of doubles. Soriano needed a good showing because from May 18 through May 22, Soriano was 0-for-13 with seven strikeouts. Since getting a pinch-hit single against the White Sox on Friday, Soriano is 4-for-9 (.444). He was dropped in the batting order on Sunday to the seventh spot behind the rookie Solarte.
- Mark Teixeira (batting fourth) and Brian McCann (batting fifth) combined to go 0-for-8 in the game with four strikeouts and they stranded three runners apiece. The fact that the Yankees scored seven runs in the game without a significant contribution from two of their three top run producers is saying a lot. Both Teixeira and McCann need to step up their games in the absence of outfielder Carlos Beltran.
The White Sox paid tribute to Jeter in a 30-minute pre-game ceremony and awarded him a plague bearing soil from shortstop at U.S. Cellular Field collected three days ago to honor all the shortstops who played there and all of those happen to be in the Hall in Fame. Jeter's name was on the large plaque along with the names of Luke Appling, Pee Wee Reese, Luis Aparacio, Cal Ripken Jr., Lou Boudreau, Ozzie Smith, Barry Larkin, Robin Yount, Omar Vizquel and Phil Rizzuto. The White Sox also chipped in with a check for $5,000 for Jeter's Turn 2 Foundation. . . . Right-hander Michael Pineda reported no issues on Sunday after throwing 28 pitches in live batting practice on Saturday. Pineda, who has been on the 15-day disabled list since May 4 with a strained muscle in his upper right shoulder, is next scheduled to pitch in s simulated game on Tuesday. He hopes to be able to return to the Yankees in early June.
The Yankees will travel to Busch Stadium for a Memorial Day matchup to begin a three-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Rookie right-hander Chase Whitley (0-0, 1.00 ERA) will make his third start for the Yankees. Whitley held the Cubs to one run on six hits and a walk while he fanned three in 4 1/3 innings of a game the Yankees rallied to win 4-2 in 13 innings on Wednesday.
The Cardinals will send to the mound right-hander Michael Wacha (3-3, 2.54 ERA). Wacha was cruising having shut out the Arizona Diamondbacks on two hits and three walks in six innings. But he settled for a no-decision when he was forced to leave the game after taking a batted ball off his right elbow. The injury was not serious and he was cleared to start on Monday.
Game-time will be 4:15 p.m. EDT and the game will be broadcast nationally by ESPN and locally by the YES Network.
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Ellsbury Homer Rallies Yanks Past Chisox In 10
The Yankees seemed to have developed a pattern of looking absolutely helpless at the plate until the opponent's starter leaves the game. Then they tie up the game on the team's closer and later win it in extra innings. For the second time in four days in Chicago that is exactly what they did.
Jacoby Ellsbury stroked a one-out single and later scored as part of a three-run rally in the ninth to tie the game and then blasted a two-out solo home run in the top of the 10th as New York got off the deck to defeat Chicago on Saturday in front of a paid crowd of 33,413 at U.S. Cellular Field.
For eight innings the Yankees could do little with left-hander John Danks, who held them to a two-out double by Mark Teixeira in the fourth and a pair of two-out singles by John Ryan Murphy and Brendan Ryan in the eighth. Danks did not walk a batter and struck out four.
The White Sox offense, meanwhile, scored all three of their runs in the first inning off left-hander Vidal Nuno on singles by Adam Eaton and Gordon Beckham, an RBI double by Dayan Viciedo, a sacrifice fly by Adam Dunn and an RBI groundout off the bat of Alexei Ramirez.
Nuno, however, settled down and held the Chisox to no runs on six hits and one walk while fanning five over the next 6 2/3 innings.
Dellin Betances (3-0) pitched a perfect ninth with two strikeouts to earn the victory in relief. David Robertson, who was victimized by a single by Viciedo and two-run home run by Dunn in the bottom of the ninth on Friday to blow his first save of the season, gave up a single but struck out the side in the bottom of the inning for his 10th save in 11 chances.
After White Sox closer Ronald Belisario gave up the one-out single to Ellsbury in the ninth, he struck out Teixeira. But Alfonso Soriano laced an opposite-field double to left that scored Ellsbury.
With the Yankees down their last strike, Yangervis Solarte followed with opposite-field RBI single to left, Ichiro Suzuki walked and pinch-hitter Brian McCann scored Kelly Johnson, who was pinch-running for Solarte, with a looping single into left-center.
White Sox right-hander Zach Putnam (2-1) came on in the ninth and retired Brett Gardner on a strikeout and Derek Jeter on a groundout. However, Ellsbury laid into a 1-0 splitter and drove the ball just over the wall in right-field for only his second home run of the season in what proved to be the eventual game-winning hit.
Four days ago, the Yankees were shut out on four hits and two walks in seven innings by Cubs right-hander Jeff Samardzjia at Wrigley Field only to rally for two runs in the top of the ninth off Cubs closer Hector Rondon. They later scored two runs in the 13th inning on a wild pitch and an RBI single by Murphy and ended up winning the game.
The victory on Saturday halted an embarrassing nine-game losing streak for the Yankees at U.S. Cellular Field that dated back to the 2012 season.
Perhaps the game-changing play occurred in the bottom of the second inning after Nuno had given up three runs in the first inning. Marcus Semien led off the frame with a single and Adrian Nieto followed with a lined single into right.
Suzuki fielded the ball and threw towards third as Semien rounded second. But Jeter cut the throw off and ran towards Nieto, who had rounded first base too far. Jeter shuffled a toss back to Ryan. Nieto changed course, ran around Ryan and was called safe by second-base umpire Tom Woodring ash e touched the base.
However, the base umpires conferred with crew chief Jeff Nelson and reversed the call, saying that Nieto had run out of the baseline to avoid the tag of Ryan.
White Sox manager Robin Ventura came storming out of the dugout to protest the call but he ended up being ejected from the game by Woodring.
With Semien at third and one out, Nuno then fanned Leury Garcia and he escaped any further damage by getting Eaton on a flyout.
The Yankees ran their season record to 25-23. They are second place in the American League East, two games behind the first-place Toronto Blue Jays. The White Sox fell to 25-26.
- After breaking a dreadful 1-for-27 slide with two late hits against the Cubs in the 13-inning game on Wednesday, Ellsbury promptly went through an 0-for-11 skid before singling in the ninth and homering in the 10th on Saturday. It is hard to say that Ellsbury's slump is over. But after his average hit a peak of .346 on May 3 he is now hitting .263. He needs to get it going again because the Yankees feed off his ability to get on base and to steal bases.
- McCann is another guy who has underachieved with the bat this season. After hitting a three-run home run in the first inning in Friday's game, McCann came back with a very important pinch-hit, two-out RBI single to tie the game in the ninth. Though McCann is hitting just .227, he is third on the team in RBIs behind Teixeira and Solarte, who are tied with 25 apiece.
- Betances recorded two more strikeouts in his one inning of relief to give him 49 Ks in just 28 1/3 innings. The 26-year-old right-hander is 3-0 with a 1.59 ERA and batters are hitting a lowly .153 off him this season. It is safe to say that Betances is becoming what the Yankees had hoped Joba Chamberlain would become eventually. Eventually never did come for Joba.
- Danks, 29, is a decent veteran pitcher but he has not recorded double-digit victories or posted an ERA below 4.33 since 2010. He also entered this game with a 3-4 record and a 5.64 ERA. So why were the Yankees able to get only one hit in seven innings and three in eight innings? You can understand why they would struggle against Samardzjia and Chris Sale but not Danks. There is no excuse.
- Gardner and Jeter, who were batting in the first two spots of the batting order, respectively, ended the day a combined 0-for-10 with a strikeout (Gardner), a weak popup and three weak grounders. It is hard to get an offense going when those two are struggling to get on base.
- I was all ready to give up on Nuno after he yielded three runs and five hits to the first eight batters. But he retired 17 of the next 20 batters he faced and he held the White Sox to three runs in order to give the Yankees a chance to tie it in the ninth. Nuno is 1-1 with a 4.38 ERA in his seven starts this season. Given the current state of the Yankees' rotation, the Yankees still need him.
Brian Roberts did not play in Saturday's game due to a bruised knee he sustained fouling a ball of his right knee in the fourth inning of Friday's game. Roberts stayed in the game but was replaced at second base in the ninth inning by Ryan. Ryan played in his place on Saturday and he was 1-for-4 with a run scored. Manager Joe Girardi told reporters that the injury was not serious and Roberts was available to pinch-hit on Saturday. . . . Jeter on Saturday passed Luis Aparacio for second place on the all-time games played list at shortstop by playing in his 2,584th game. Jeter also became the all-time leader in games played at the position in the American League. Omar Vizquel is the all-time major-league leader at shortstop with 2,709 games. The Yankees have only 115 games left so Jeter, who has announced this will be his last season, will not have a chance to pass Vizquel.
The Yankees will try to earn a split of the four-game weekend series with Chisox on Sunday.
Masahiro Tanaka (6-1, 2.39 ERA) will try to bounce back after his first major-league loss on Tuesday. He yielded four runs (three earned) on eight hits and a walk in six innings to the Cubs, who won 6-1.
The White Sox will start right-hander Andre Rienzo (4-0, 4.00 ERA). Rienzo held the Kansas City Royals to two runs on five hits and two walks with eight strikeouts in six innings in a victory on Monday.
Game-time will be 2:10 p.m. EDT and the game will be broadcast by the YES Network.
- Posted on May 25, 2014 at 3:18 am
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Triple-A Subs Help Yankees Rally Past Cubs In 13
When a baseball team suffers through a spate of injuries it has to rely a great deal on its players from Triple A to fill in for those injured players. Add to the fact that when a team is in a 13-inning game they up asking players to do things they never have done before.
That is exactly what happened at Wrigley Field on Wednesday and those former Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders came up big for the Yankees.
Pitcher Preston Claiborne set down a perfectly placed sacrifice bunt in his first major-league at-bat in the top of the 13th inning, Brendan Ryan scored the tie-breaking run on a wild pitch and John Ryan Murphy drove in an insurance run on a single as New York rallied for two runs in the ninth to tie it and scored two in the 13th to down Chicago.
Claiborne (2-0), who was recalled from Scranton for a second time this season on April 27 to fill a void in the bullpen, pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings of relief to earn the victory. David Robertson pitched a scoreless 13th frame to remain a perfect 9-for-9 in saves this season.
Former Yankee right-hander Jose Veras (0-1) took the loss.
Ryan, who entered the game as pinch-runner for Brian McCann and scored a run in the ninth, led off the 13th with a lined single to left off Veras. Yangervis Solarte then drew a walk to set the stage for Claiborne's bunt.
The Yankees were out of position players and Robertson was only reliever left in the bullpen. That forced manager Joe Girardi into asking Claiborne, who had never had at-bat in major-league game, to put down a sacrifice bunt to advance Ryan and Solarte.
The Cubs, defending the bunt, actually put on the wheel play to cut down Ryan at third base, however, Claiborne's bunt on the first pitch from Veras was deadened so much on the Wrigley Field turf that third baseman Luis Valbuena had only the play at first base.
While facing Murphy, who entered the game after Ryan pinch-ran for McCann in the ninth, Veras uncorked a wild pitch that allowed Ryan to score the tie-breaking run. Two pitches later Murphy, who was recalled from Scranton on April 15 when Francisco Cervelli was placed on the 60-day disabled list with a pulled right hamstring, laced a RBI single to right that scored Solarte.
Considering the effort of Cubs right-hander Jeff Samardzjia, it is lucky that the Yankees were able to tie it in the ninth, much less win the game.
Samardzjia entered the game with a 1.62 ERA but was sporting an 0-4 record and a 15-start streak in which he had failed to win a game dating back to Aug. 24, 2013 victory over the Padres in San Diego.
He held the Yankees to just four hits and two walks while he struck out three in seven innings. That lowered his season ERA to National League-leading 1.46.
The Cubs, meanwhile, were able to push across a run in the fourth inning against right-hander Chase Whitley, who was recalled from Scranton on May 15 and who was making only his second major-league start.
Valbuena slapped a one-out single and Wellington Castillo followed with a single of his own. Then Nate Schierholtz slashed a liner off the glove of Mark Teixeira at first base for a single that loaded the bases.
Mike Olt scored Valbuena on a sacrifice fly.
Whitley left the game with one out in the fifth and Emilio Bonifacio on third with a leadoff triple. But right-hander Dellin Betances bailed him out of the inning by retiring Anthony Rizzo on a swinging strike and Starlin Castro on a flyout.
Whitley gave up on run on six hits and one walk along with three strikeouts in 4 1/3 innings. In his two starts since being called up as an emergency fifth starter, Whitley has yielded one run on eight hits and three walks and seven strikeouts in nine innings.
The Cubs added a run in the seventh inning off right-hander Adam Warren when pinch-hitter Ryan Kalish lined a one-out triple to right and Bonifacio scored him on a bunt single.
But the Yankees both ruined Samardzjia's great outing and saved themselves a loss by scoring two runs with the help of an error by Darwin Barney, who had just entered the game at second base as part of a double switch in the top of the ninth.
Teixeira opened the inning with a single off right-hander Hector Rondon, the Cubs' closer. McCann followed by drawing a walk and he was replaced by Ryan.
Solarte loaded the bases with an infield single and Ichiro Suzuki followed by hitting a grounder to Castro at short. Castro fed the ball to Barney to retire Solarte but Barney's throw to first skipped past Rizzo at first base to allow both Teixeira and Ryan to score.
Because of the length of the game, thousands of Yankee fans and a majority of the sellout crowd of 34,808 saluted Derek Jeter with repeated standing ovations when he came to the plate. Jeter ended the day 1-for-7 with a single in the sixth in his final game at Wrigley Field.
"I was hoping the game wouldn't take that long, but I told you, the way the fans have been treating me on the road this year. It's been unbelievable," Jeter told reporters after the game.
With the victory the Yankees split the two-game series at Wrigley but won the inter-league season series three games to one. Their season record improves to 24-21 and they are in a statistical tie with the Toronto Blue Jays for first place in the American League East, a half=game ahead of the third-place Baltimore Orioles.
The Cubs fell to 16-28.
- Whitley certainly deserves another start after what he did against the Cubs on Wednesday. Girardi was pleased and only removed him in the fifth in favor of Betances with Bonifacio on third and Rizzo up because Girardi wanted a strikeout in the that situation. With Ivan Nova out for the season after Tommy John surgery and Michael Pineda and CC Sabathia on the disabled list, the 24-year-old right-hander is seizing a great opportunity after spending the past three seasons at Scranton.
- Let's also give credit to the bullpen for pitching 8 2/3 innings of one-run baseball. They allowed only five hits and three walks while striking out 12 batters. Despite the loss of setup man Shawn Kelley, who is on the DL with a lower-back strain, the team is getting help from Betances, Alfredo Aceves, Matt Daley, Matt Thornton, Warren, Claiborne and Robertson. Robertson is certainly settling in replacing the legendary Mariano Rivera.
- Give Murphy, 22, credit for staying sharp with the bat despite getting limited playing time behind the perennial All-Star McCann. With Murphy's single in the 13th he has raised his season average to .406. He is 13-for-32 with a home run and six RBIs. He is making Austin Romine and Cervelli irrelevant to the Yankees future plans as long as he continues to play this well.
- It is clear that Samardzjia is a good pitcher but the Yankees can not be happy that they played the weak-hitting Cubs for 17 innings heading into the ninth inning on Wednesday and they managed to score just a single run on 10 hits. The acquisitions of Carlos Beltran, Jacoby Ellsbury and McCann were supposed to make the offense better than it was in 2013. But those three, so far, are failing to provide much. Ellsbury singled in the 10th and the 12th innings to snap a 1-for-27 slump and he only has one home run all season.
More bad news on the injury front. Kelley, 30, had his rehab placed on hold Wednesday due to a recurrence of his lower back pain. Kelley felt a twinge as he was playing catch on Monday and he was told to halt all baseball activities. Tests indicated no problems with the discs in his back. But plans for the right-hander to begin a minor-league rehab stint this weekend have been cancelled.
The Yankees stay in Chicago but their bus will head to U.S. Cellular Field on the south side of the city to open a four-game series with the White Sox beginning on Thursday.
Right-hander David Phelps (1-0, 3.33 ERA) will start for the Yankees coming off his best start of the season. Phelps shut out the Pirates on five hits and three walks in five innings on Friday. Though Phelps had command issues throughout his outing, he got out of jams and held the Bucs scoreless.
This is just how the Yankees' season has gone. All-Star Chisox left-hander Chris Sale (3-0, 2.30 ERA) was not supposed to pitch in this series because he was on the 15-day disabled list with a left flexor muscle strain in his left elbow. However, after he fanned 11 batters in four innings in a rehab start last Friday, Sale was summoned to Chicago and he will be activated for Thursday's game. Oh goody, goody!
Game-time will be 8:10 p.m. EDT and the game will be broadcast by the YES Network.
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Despite Split With Bucs, Yankees Claim First Place
The Yankees' hitters must have gotten an early wakeup call on Sunday because they came out blazing against the Pirates.
The Yankees scored three runs in the first inning and added a run in the second and then they let Hiroki Kuroda and their bullpen hold it as New York extended its winning streak to four games with a victory over Pittsburgh in the first game of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium.
Kuroda (3-3) was touched for a run in the first inning on a one-out solo home run off the bat of Neil Walker but he settled in after the Yankees came back to give him a 4-1 cushion.
The Yankees jumped on hard-luck right-hander Charlie Morton (0-6) when the first five batters he faced reached base.
Brett Gardner drew a leadoff walk and Derek Jeter followed with a perfectly placed bunt single. Morton then loaded the bases when he hit Jacoby Ellsbury with a curveball.
Mark Teixeira stroked a two-run single and Brian McCann scored Ellsbury with a RBI single.
The Yankees added a run in the second inning on a leadoff single by Kelly Johnson, who later stole second and reached third on an error by catcher Tony Sanchez. Gardner then scored him with an RBI double.
Unfortunately for the Yankees, their bats promptly went to sleep after Gardner's double. Morton went on to retire 16 of the 17 batters he faced. The only batter who reached, Zoilo Almonte singled with two out in the fourth inning, was picked off first base by Morton.
Morton was charged with four runs on six hits and on walk while he struck out six in seven innings.
Kuroda was touched for two runs in the fifth when Sanchez led off with a home run into the left-field bleachers. Clint Barmes then doubled and he scored one batter later on an RBI single by Walker.
Kuroda left after giving up three runs on six hits and two walks while he fanned seven batters in six innings.
The Yankee bullpen combination of Matt Daley, Matt Thornton, Adam Warren and David Robertson held the Pirates scoreless on one hit over the final three innings to seal the victory for the Yankees.
Robertson pitched 1 1/3 innings of perfect relief to earn his eighth save in eight chances this season.
Reserve utility player Josh Harrison broke a 3-3 tie with two out in the seventh inning with a home run as Pittsburgh salvaged one game of the three-game series with New York in the second game of Sunday's doubleheader.
Gerrit Cole (4-3) yielded three runs on seven hits and two walks while striking out eight in six innings of work to earn the victory. Mark Melancon pitched a perfect ninth to earn his sixth save of the season.
Reliever Alfredo Aceves (0-2), who came in relief of left-hander Vidal Nuno in the seventh, was charged with his second loss in the past eight days.
Nuno yielded three runs (two earned) on six hits and one walk and he struck out five batters in six innings.
Despite splitting the doubleheader, the Yankees – with a season record of 23-20 – pulled into a half-game lead in the American League East over the Baltimore Orioles. The Pirates are now 18-25.
- Kuroda was hardly at his best. But he did pitch much better than he has previously this season. Kuroda had much better command of his slider, which made his fastball and split-finger fastball much more effective. After winning two of his first three starts, Kuroda was 0-2 with a 5.10 ERA in his past five starts.
- Teixeira extended his hitting streak to eight games in the opener and managed to end the day one RBI in back of Yangervis Solarte for the team lead in RBIs with 22.
- Gardner has been on a hitting tear that began on May 3 and he has not stopped. In his past 15 games he is 20-for-58 (.345) with two home runs and 10 RBIs. He was 3-for-7 in the doubleheader and has raised his season average to .297.
- Manager Joe Girardi basically gutted the Yankees' offense in the second game by holding out Jeter, Ellsbury, McCann and Alfonso Soriano. I understand that he needed to rest McCann (as the catcher) and Ellsbury (due to his recent illness). My only quibble is he could have balanced it so that two of them played in one game and two the other. In the second game, Johnson batted cleanup. Huh?
- Aceves, 31, may be quickly paving his way to being designated for assignment of he does not get his act together real soon. In his past four appearances, he has yielded eight runs on nine hits and three walks in six innings. That is an ERA of 12.00 and a Walks-To-Innings-Pitched (WHIP) ratio of 2.00. Pitchers who get shelled in relief do not stay in a Girardi bullpen for long.
- Solarte and Brian Roberts cost Nuno and the Yankees a valuable run in the second inning when Solarte made an errant throw after fielding a Starling Marte grounder and Roberts then dropped a potential double-play relay from Solarte one out later which would have ended the inning. Instead, Chris Stewart, of all people, drove in a run with a two-out single.
The Yankees will get a well-deserved day off on Monday before flying to Chicago to open a two-game series with the Cubs on Tuesday at Wrigley Field.
Rookie right-hander Masahiro Tanaka (6-0, 2.17 ERA) will open the series for the Yankees. Tanaka is coming off his his first major-league complete-game shutout, which he threw against the New York Mets on Wednesday. He gave up only four hits, did not walk a batter and struck out eight. He also beat the Cubs by shutting them out for eight innings ay Yankee Stadium on April 16.
Veteran right-hander Jason Hammel (4-2, 3.06 ERA) is scheduled to pitch for the Cubs. Hammel surrendered five runs on five hits and two walks in 5 1/3 innings in loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in his last start on Thursday. He also took the loss to the Yankees on April 16 at Yankee Stadium.
Game-time will be 8:05 p.m. EDT and the game will be broadcast by MY9.
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Yankees' Young Guns Shut Out Mets On Three Hits
In the 1990 Western "Young Guns II," Sheriff Kimbrel (Jerry Gardner) is asked to go after Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez). His reply was classic. He said, "I'd rather drink turpentine and piss on a brushfire. I ain't touchin' this one."
That is pretty much how the New York Mets' hitters must have felt on Thursday as they were gunned down one by one by the New York Yankees' own version of Young Guns.
Chase Whitley, Dellin Betances, Adam Warren and David Robertson, all who are products of the Yankees' minor-league system, combined to shut out the Mets on three hits while striking out 14 batters as the Yankees earned a split of the 2014 Subway Series in front of a paid crowd of 40,133 at Citi Field in Flushing, N.Y.
Whitley, 24, made his major-league debut and threw 4 2/3 innings, yielding just two hits and two walks while fanning four batters. He even managed to pick up his first major-league hit in his first at-bat in the third inning against Mets right-hander Jacob deGrom, who also was making his major-league debut.
The Yankees managed to push across the only run of the game against deGrom in the seventh inning on a misplayed double-play grounder.
Mark Teixeira drew a one-out walk and Brian McCann followed by hitting a routine ground ball to second baseman Daniel Murphy, who gunned down Teixeira with a throw to third baseman David Wright. Wright, the third baseman who was playing shortstop in an extreme shift on McCann, threw the relay to first baseman Lucas Duda into the dirt and McCann was able to reach first base safely.
Alfonso Soriano then stroked a double into the gap in left-center that rolled to the wall and allowed the slow-footed McCann to score from first base for the first time in a game since the 2009 season.
Though deGrom (0-1) was tagged with the loss he pitched as brilliantly as Whitley. He gave up just the one run on four hits and two walks while he struck out six batters over seven innings.
Betances (2-0) relieved Whitley and he earned the victory in relief by retiring all seven batters he faced and he struck out the final six batters, four of them looking. Betances entered the game in the fifth with two on and two out but he escaped when he induced Eric Young Jr. to ground out.
Warren struck out two in the eighth but he left with pinch-runner Juan Lagares on third after a walk to pinch-hitter Bobby Abreu and Murphy on first after a single.
But Robertson came in to retire Wright on a ground out to end the threat. He then pitched perfect ninth with two strikeouts to earn his seventh save in seven chances this season.
The game marked the first time since Sept. 7, 2010 that two pitchers squared off in their major-league debuts since the Mets' Dillon Gee, who coincidentally was replaced as the starter for this game by deGrom because a strained lat muscle landed him on the 15-day disabled list on Wednesday, faced off against Yunesky Maya of the Washington Nationals.
After giving up 21 runs on 24 hits in the two Subway Series games at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees held the Mets scoreless on seven hits and three walks with 22 strikeouts in their two victories at Citi Field. Masahiro Tanaka tossed his first major-league complete-game shutout on Wednesday, holding the Mets to just four hits while striking out eight.
With the victory the Yankees improved their season ledger to 21-19. They are in sole possession of second place in the American League East a half-game behind the first-place Baltimore Orioles. The Mets fell to 19-21.
- Whitley has found a niche as a starter this season after being mostly a relief pitcher in the minor leagues. Though his velocity hovers in the low 90-mile-per-hour range, Whitley was able to stymie the Mets by keeping his fastball, slider and change-up down. Wright struck out swinging in his three at-bats against Whitley, who was starting in place of the injured CC Sabathia.
- Betances is drawing raves from pundits who believe he could be a closer now. Betances threw 20 of 27 pitches for strikes in his dominant 2 1/3-inning outing. Betances has recorded 39 strikeouts out of the 67 batters he has retired this season. He lowered his ERA to 1.61 and batters are hitting a miserable .154 off of him.
- Soriano struck out in his first two at-bats but he doubled and singled to end the night 2-for-4. The Yankees are still waiting for Soriano to go off on one of his hot streaks as he did last season after the Yankees acquired him from the Chicago Cubs. Soriano is hitting . 248 with five homers and 16 RBIs.
The offense could have been better but the Yankees seem to always struggle against pitchers they have not seen before. But I will give them a mulligan because Whitley, Betances, Warren and Robertson were so brilliant. They dominated the Mets and made them look bad.
The Yankees placed outfielder Carlos Beltran, 37, on the 15-day disabled list with a bone spur on his right elbow. But Beltran told reporters that he still hopes to avoid having surgery, which could sideline him for six to eight weeks. Beltran first noticed the pain in his elbow when he was taking swings in the batting cage during Monday's game against the Mets. Beltran had a cortisone injection and he hopes that will relieve the pain when he is eligible to be reinstated. To replace Beltran on the roster the Yankees purchased the contract of Whitley from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. To make room on the 40-man roster for Whitley the team activated right-hander Bruce Billings from the disabled list and designated him for assignment. . . . Thursday's game was the final visit to Citi Field for Derek Jeter and the 39-year-old shortstop was awarded a subway tile mosaic with his No. 2 and featuring both Yankee and Met colors. The Mets also handed Jeter a check worth $222, 222. 22 for his Turn 2 Foundation.
The Yankees do not have far to go home to Yankee Stadium as they open a three-game weekend series with the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday.
Right-hander David Phelps (0-0, 4.09 ERA) will make his third start for the Yankees in place of right-hander Michael Pineda. Phelps yielded four runs on eight hits and three walks while striking out one in five innings in a no-decision against the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday.
Phelps will be opposed by veteran right-hander Edinson Volquez (1-3, 4.36 ERA). Volquez was tagged for three runs on four hits and four walks while fanning four in 4 2/3 innings in a no-decsion against the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday.
Game-time will be 7:05 p.m. EDT and the game will be broadcast nationally by the MLB Network and locally by the YES Network.
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Ellsbury Returns To Fenway As Yanks Pester Lester
"The bad boy's back
The bad boy's back in town, oh yeah
The bad boy's back
Don't you shoot him down"
- Asia
To Red Sox Nation, leaving the fold to play for the Yankees is tantamount to Benedict Arnold's treachery during the Revolutionary War. They let Jacoby Ellsbury know it as he stepped into the batter's box for his first at-bat. But Ellsbury quickly showed the Fenway Park faithful what they are missing in the leadoff spot and in centerfield.
Ellsbury was 2-for-5 with a double and a triple, scored two runs, drove in two runs and made a sensational sliding catch in center while Masahiro Tanaka pitched into the eighth inning as New York bedeviled Boston in front of a crowd of 37,041 and national television audience.
The Yankees frustrated and unnerved Jon Lester (2-3) for 4 2/3 innings, scoring eight runs (three earned) on 11 hits and four walks while Lester struck out seven.
Tanaka (3-0), in contrast, was cool, calm and in command as he held the Red Sox to two runs – on a pair of back-to-back homers by David Ortiz and Mike Napoli with one out in the fourth – on seven hits, no walks and he fanned seven to remain undefeated after posting a 24-0 record in his final season in Japan.
The Yankees rattled Lester from the beginning when Ellsbury ignored the boos – and a few cheers – to lace a ball to the wall in deep center that a fan reached into the field play to deflect and the umpires awarded Ellsbury a triple. Derek Jeter followed with an RBI single and the undoing of Lester began.
A combination of an A.J. Pierzynski passed ball and a Pierzynski throwing error allowed Jeter to advance to third. Jeter then scored on an RBI single by Carlos Beltran.
The Yankees added a pair of runs in the third when Alfonso Soriano slapped a double off the Green Monster and Mark Teixeira followed with a bloop single to right that scored Soriano. Brian McCann then scored Teixeira with a RBI double off the Monster that made it 4-0.
After Ortiz and Napoli homered to fool the fans into thinking they were actually back in the game, the Yankees chased Lester in the fifth with four unearned runs.
With Teixeira on second after he was walked and McCann on first with a single, Lester struck out Yangervis Solarte and Ichiro Suzuki. However, Napoli was unable to hold Brian Roberts' lined drive in his glove at first base for the third out and Teixeira scored when the ball rolled into rightfield.
The Red Sox had an opportunity to end the inning if Grady Sizemore had thrown the ball to second base because McCann did not see Napoli lose the ball and he was walking off the field. But Sizemore threw home to try to get Teixeira as McCann scrambled back to second.
It was that kind of night for Lester and the Red Sox. Leave it to Ellsbury to make the his old team pay for the mistake.
He followed with a two-run double on Lester's 118th and final pitch of the evening.
Jeter then greeted left-hander Chris Capuano with an RBI single into center and Ellsbury crossed the plate to make a 8-2 laugher.
Beltran capped the scoring in the eighth by blasting his fifth home run of the season with one out in the eight inning off right-hander Edward Mujica.
The Red Sox scored an "oh-by-the way" run in the ninth off Dellin Betances on a one-out double by Jonny Gomes and and two-out double off the bat of Xander Bogaerts that scored Gomes.
The 11 hits the Yankees nicked Lester with were the most hits he has given up to them in his career. Every Yankee starter with the exception of Solarte had at least one hit in the game.
The Yankees have won four of the first five meetings against the Red Sox this season.
With the victory the Yankees improved their record to 12-8 and the lead the American League East by one game over the Toronto Blue Jays. The Red Sox are 9-12 and in last place in the division.
- Ellsbury, 30, proved to his former team he was worth the seven-year, $153-million contract he received from the Yankees. His hitting (.342), speed (leads American League with eight steals) and Gold-Glove defense in center are worth rewarding. The Red Sox two biggest weaknesses are their leadoff spot and the fact that centerfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. is hitting .228. The fans can boo him all they want but as Bob Costas said on his call of the game for the MLB Network, "They are booing the laundry and not the player."
- Tanaka was a great contrast to his mound opponent Lester. While Lester fumed about hits that dropped in, hard-hit balls off the Monster and the strike zone of home-plate umpire Quinn Wolcott, Tanaka did not show any emotion at all and looked to be in command at all times. For all his hype, Lester's career ERA is 3.73 and his WHIP is a staggeringly high 1.30. He also showed the Yankees you can rattle him. Tanaka proved pretty much the opposite.
- Want to hear a stunning stat about Jeter? In the past 11 games that he has played he has at least one hit in all of them. In fact, he has only failed to get a hit in two of the 14 games in which played this season. His 2-for-4 night raised his season average to .298. Anybody really think he is washed up at age 39?
On a night where the Red Sox had their ace pounded for 11 hits, the Yankees' imported free agent from Japan made them look silly on his split-finger fastball and Ellsbury laid it on his former club there is nothing that I can say that would be close to being negative. The world is just a better place when the Yankees put the Red Sox in their place – last.
The Yankees activated closer David Robertson from the 15-day disabled list on Tuesday and outrighted left-hander Cesar Cabral to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to make room on the roster. Robertson has been sidelined sidelined since April 6 with a strain in his left groin. With Robertson's reinstatement, Shawn Kelley will move back into the eighth inning setup role after saving four games in four chances filling in as the closer. . . . An MRI on Tuesday indicated that right-hander Ivan Nova has a partial tear of his ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow and he likely will undergo season-ending Tommy John surgery. The recommendation for surgery came from Dr. Christopher Ahmad, the team's physician. The recovery time for the surgery is 12 to 18 months.
The Yankees will continue their three-game road series with the Red Sox on Wednesday.
Right-hander Michael Pineda (2-1, 1.00 ERA) will start for the Yankees. Pineda is coming off six innings of shutout baseball to defeat the Chicago Cubs last Wednesday. He gave up four hits and one walk while he struck out three. Pineda also defeated the Red Sox on April 10, yielding just one run on six hits in six innings.
Pineda will be opposed by veteran right-hander John Lackey (2-2, 5.15 ERA). Lackey has been pounded for 12 runs on 20 hits and four walks in 11 innings in his past two starts against the Yankees (April 12) and the Baltimore Orioles on Friday. It is the first time in his career he has given up as many as 10 hits and six earned runs in two consecutive starts.
Game-time will be 7:10 p.m. EDT and the game will be broadcast nationally by ESPN and locally by the YES Network.
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Anna's Bases-Loaded Walk In 12th Eclipses Rays
Sometimes when they say it is game of inches they really mean it. On Sunday at Tropicana Field the Yankees ended up winning a game against the Rays on a very close checked swing by rookie infielder Dean Anna.
Anna just barely held up on a 3-2 pitch from left-hander C.J. Riefenhauser with the bases loaded and two out as part of a four-run uprising as New York gladly will leave St. Petersburg, FL, with split of their four-game series against Tampa Bay.
After right-hander Heath Bell (0-1) opened the 12th by walking Yangervis Solarte, Riefenhauser came on to retire Solarte on a fielder's choice grounder by Brett Gardner and Brian Roberts on lineout.
However, Brian McCann singled to advance Gardner to third and Rays manager Joe Maddon decided to walk Jacoby Ellsbury intentionally in order to pitch to Anna. Niefenhauser's 3-2 pitch to Anna was called a ball by home-plate umpire Clint Fagan and third-base umpire Marty Foster correctly called that Anna checked his swing in time to allow Gardner to score to break the 1-1 tie.
That opened the floodgates as right-hander Josh Lueke replaced Riefenhauser and was tagged by a two-run single by Carlos Beltran and an RBI single off the bat of Alfonso Soriano.
Preston Claiborne (1-0), who was called up on Sunday after the Yankees had been hammered for 27 runs on 32 hits in two days, pitched the final two innings to get credit for the victory.
The Yankees actually held a 1-0 lead in the game after the top of the fourth inning, when Soriano led off with a double and Gardner followed two batters later with a deep drive to right that outfielder Will Myers appeared initially to have caught at the wall.
However, after Yankees manager Joe Girardi challenged the call, replays clearly indicated that the ball landed just under the yellow home-run line on some netting and then caromed into Myers' glove. Gardner was awarded a double and RBI that allowed Soriano to score.
Emergency starter Vidal Nuno actually held the Rays scoreless over five innings, yielding only three hits and two walks while fanned six batters in his first start since June of last season.
The Yankees bullpen, which had been shredded the past two days, held up well until a one-out error by Roberts in the bottom of the seventh inning allowed the Rays to tie it with an unearned run.
Matt Thornton entered the game with one out in the frame but was greeted by a single by James Loney. Brandon Guyer then rolled a easy two-hopper to Solarte at third. But Roberts bobbled the ball at second and umpire Joe West ruled Loney safe at second also.
Adam Warren came in to replace Thornton and Yunel Escobar singled to load the bases and pinch-hitter Matt Joyce launched a sacrifice fly that scored Loney just ahead of the tag from John Ryan Murphy on the throw from Beltran in right.
The victory allowed the Yankees to improve their season record to 11-8. They remain a game up on the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League East. The Rays fell to 9-10 and are two games back.
- Give Nuno, 26, a lot of credit for tossing five spotless innings in his first start in almost a year. Nuno was used because of Tuesday's rainout at Yankee Stadium in a game scheduled against the Chicago Cubs, which pushed back Masahiro Tanaka's next start until Tuesday. But Nuno likely will get at least one more start since right-hander Ivan Nova likely will miss the rest of the season to undergo Tommy John surgery on his right elbow.
- Anna, 27, only was in the game because Girardi had elected to pinch-run Ichiro Suzuki in the 11th inning to replace Derek Jeter after he led off the frame with a single off Bell. Suzuki ultimately was called out on a steal attempt after he initially was called safe. The call was overturned on a replay requested by Maddon. So Anna ended up stepping into the batters' box facing a left-hander and sporting a .136 batting average. But he earned the walk and it was a very impressive eight-pitch at-bat.
- Shawn Kelley highlighted an unyielding performance by the bullpen after they had been shelled so badly in the two previous games. Kelley pitched a scoreless ninth and 10th innings and struck out four batters to allow the Yankees to win the game in the 12th. The bullpen of David Phelps, Thornton, Warren, Kelley and Claiborne shut out the Rays on three hits and three walks while fanning nine in seven innings.
- Roberts had a day he would like to forget. Along with committing a senseless fielding error that cost the Yankees the lead he was 0-for-5 with a couple of strikeouts and he stranded four base-runners. Roberts is off to a slow start with the bat and is now hitting just .156.
- Thornton is certainly nothing like his predecessor Boone Logan. He does not have Logan's sweeping slider and lefties make him pay for it. He was called into the game to retire the left-handed Loney but Loney slapped a fastball to the opposite field for a single. Thornton has to be prepared to push good lefty hitters off the plate to keep them from going the other way.
The Yankees activated Mark Teixeira from the disabled list and he started at first base on Sunday and was 2-for-6 with fielding error in the game. Teixeira, 34, had been out of the lineup since he strained his right hamstring in a game against the Blue Jays on April 4. . . . David Robertson is on schedule to be activated on Tuesday. Robertson, 29, suffered a strained left groin on April 6. He will resume his closer's role and Kelley will move back into the main setup role. Kelley was 4-for-4 in save opportunities.
I have said this before and I will say this again: The Rays' organization is great to its own players and fans (which is fantastic) but they treat everyone else with disdain because they are very insecure. One example: If there is giveaway such as an Evan Longoria T-shirt for kids age 14-and-under they will not hand the shirts to any kids wearing an opposing team's jersey. Yep! They do that that at the Trop because they are small-minded people. But it all trickles down from the top. To most of the nation, Maddon is seemingly lovable guy. But witness him at a press conference and you see that he puts a capital A in the term a–hole. Asked to comment on Nuno and the Yankee bullpen's performance after Sunday's game, Maddon told reporters: "There really is no solid explanation. I can't stand here and say that the Yankees pitched that great. We just did not have a good offensive day." Most managers tip their cap to the opponent but Maddon can't be bothered because when his team loses it can't be because the other team is better that day. I'm sure that there was no explanation for Mark Buerhle's perfect game either, Joe. He is an A–hole. Period!
The Yankees will have Monday off before making their first trip to Fenway Park to play the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday.
Tanaka (2-0, 2.05 ERA) steps into his first foray into sports' biggest rivalry after totally dominating the Cubs on Wednesday. Tanaka, 25, struck out 10 batters and only gave up two bunt singles and a walk in seven very strong innings. I am sure Cubs manager Rich Renteria has no explanation for it.
He will be opposed by left-hander Jon Lester (2-2, 2.17 ERA). Lester evened his record by giving up just one run on seven hits and he struck out nine en route to a victory over the Chicago White Sox on Thursday.
Game-time will be 7:10 p.m. EDT and the game will be broadcast nationally by the MLB Network and locally by MY9.
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Pineda Helps Yankees Shut Out Cubs In 2nd Game
When Michael Pineda last pitched all the focus was on what may or may not have been on his hands. On Wednesday, the focus was right where it should have been: On how well Pineda is pitching.
Pineda threw six scoreless innings and Scott Sizemore scored a run and drove in another in his Yankee debut as New York completed a pair of shutouts against Chicago in a day-night twin bill at Yankee Stadium.
The Cubs managed just four hits and a walk against Pineda (2-1) and the 6-for-7 right-hander struck out three to lower his season ERA to 1.00.
The Yankees backed him by scoring single runs in the fourth and fifth innings.
After Pineda defeated the Boston Red Sox in his last start on Thursday controversy erupted over what appeared to be pine tar on his pitching hand during the game. Both the MLB Network and NESN showed shots of Pineda's hand but neither the Red Sox or the umpires ever checked Pineda for an illegal substance and Pineda was not disciplined.
Pineda said after the game that it was not pine tar but dirt on his hand.
Sizemore started the fourth-inning rally against left-hander Travis Wood with a one-out single. One out later he advanced to second on a single by John Ryan Murphy and he scored on an RBI single by Brett Gardner.
Alfonso Soriano and Yangervis Solarte hit back-to-back one-out singles in the fifth and Soriano scored one out later on Sizemore's single to left.
Wood (0-2) was charged with two runs on 11 hits while he struck out two in 5 2/3 innings.
Pineda, meanwhile, was backed by three innings of scoreless relief by David Phelps, Matt Thornton and Adam Warren, who got the final three outs for his first major-league save.
For the Yankees the doubleheader shutouts were their first since April 19, 1987 when the Yankees blanked the Kansas City Royals in both contests.
Sizemore, 29, was called up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to add depth to an injury-depleted infield. His RBI in the fifth was his first since August, 2011 because Sizemore has missed virtually all of the past two seasons after undergoing a pair of surgeries to repair torn ligaments in his right knee.
The victory was the Yankees' fourth in a row and boosted their won-loss record to 9-6. The Cubs are now 4-10.
- Pineda was brilliant in his 89-pitch outing. After an impressive spring that won him the No. 5 spot in the rotation, Pineda has picked up where he left off by yielding just two earned runs on 13 hits and two walks while he has struck out 15 in 18 innings of work. His Walks to Innings Pitched ratio (WHIP) is an astounding 0.89.
- Sizemore played in both games of the doubleheader and was 2-for-3 in the second game with a pair of singles and a line-out. Sizemore had played in only two games since the end of the 2011 season and he was only playing because the Yankees have were missing first baseman Mark Teixeira, who is on the disabled list, and second baseman Brian Roberts, who has missed the past two games with back spasms.
- Carlos Beltran was 3-for-7 with a home run, a double, a walk and one RBI in the doubleheader. He was 2-for-4 in the second game and since April 7, Beltran is 14 for 33 (.424).
I could point out Kelly Johnson was 0-for-4 and he was the only Yankee starter who did not get a hit or reach base on Wednesday. But the Yankees shut out the Cubs in both games on just nine hits and four walks with 17 strikeouts. Enough said!
The Yankees honored late South African President Nelson Mandela on the same day they honored Jackie Robinson. A pre-game ceremony was conducted to honor both men and each team's players wore Robinson's No. 42 to honor the man who broke the color barrier in baseball 67 years ago. . . . Derek Jeter returned to the lineup in the second game on Wednesday and was 1-for-5 with a single and he also reached on a two-base error by Darwin Barney. Jeter had missed the past three games with a tight right quad. . . . Roberts told reporters on Wednesday that he is feeling better after missing his fourth straight game with a lower back strain. Manager Joe Girardi said Roberts is day-to-day and he will be re-evaluated on Thursday.
The Yankees ended their first home stand with a 6-3 record and they travel to St. Petersburg, FL to open a four-game series with Tampa Bay Rays that begins on Thursday at Tropicana Field.
Left-hander CC Sabathia (1-2, 6.63 ERA) will open the series for the Yankees. Sabathia has been hampered this season with one bad inning in each of his first three starts. He ended up losing to the Red Sox last Friday after giving up four runs on two homers in the sixth inning.
The Rays will counter with left-hander David Price (2-0, 2.91 ERA). Price held the Cincinnati Reds to one run on four hits in 8 1/3 innings for his second victory of the season last Friday. He struck out 10 batters.
Game-time will be 7:10 p.m. EDT and the game will be broadcast by the YES Network.
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Series tied 1-1 (as of 6/5)
Game 1: Tuesday, June 4 | ||
Tampa Bay | 1 | Final |
Detroit | 10 | |
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Game 2: Wednesday, June 5 | ||
Tampa Bay | 3 | Final |
Detroit | 0 | |
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Game 3: Thursday, June 6 | ||
Tampa Bay | 2 | Final |
Detroit | 5 | |
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Coverage: FSDT
7:08 PM ET, June 5, 2013
Comerica Park, Detroit, Michigan
DETROIT -- Twice, Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon intentionally walked Miguel Cabrera with a runner on second, giving Prince Fielder a chance to break the game open with a big hit.
The move worked both times -- and it was the Rays who finally ended a scoreless deadlock with three runs in the ninth inning.Matt Joyce, Evan Longoria and Desmond Jennings each drove in a run in Tampa Bay's last at-bat, and the Rays beat the Detroit Tigers 3-0 on Wednesday night.In the sixth and the eighth innings, the Rays gave Cabrera a pass with two out, and each time, Fielder struck out with runners on first and second to end the inning."There's probably times you're going to roll the dice and let the pitcher pitch to Cabrera," Maddon said. "Everything depends on the pitcher. It's not a generic moment. There's a lot of different things to be read into that moment -- your pitcher, how he reacts to left-handed hitters, all that kind of stuff is important."Coming into the game, Fielder was 8 of 9 with a walk and 10 RBIs in his previous 10 plate appearances following walks by Cabrera.Alex Cobb allowed five hits in 7 2/3 innings for Tampa Bay, and Joel Peralta (1-2) fanned Fielder to end the eighth. Fernando Rodney pitched the ninth for his 12th save in 17 chances.Sam Fuld started the ninth with a bunt single, eluding Fielder's tag and diving into first base. Fuld went to third on Ben Zobrist's single, and Joyce hit a sacrifice fly off Doug Fister (5-3) to drive in the first run, with Zobrist advancing to second on the throw to the plate.Longoria's single made it 2-0 and chased Fister. Jennings added another insurance run with a run-scoring triple off Drew Smyly.Fister allowed three runs and seven hits in 8 1/3 innings. Fister pitched seven scoreless innings in his previous start against Pittsburgh, but the Tigers were shut out in that game, too."This is definitely a tough loss to swallow, especially to have it happen to Doug for the second game in a row," Detroit catcher Alex Avila said. "There always seems to be one guy who takes the brunt of these stretches -- we go a bunch of games where we can't get him any runs -- and Doug is getting that right now."Hitting rallies were few and far between, especially after both teams wasted good chances to score in the third.The Rays had runners on first and third with one out when Fielder made a diving stop on Fuld's grounder. Fielder threw home to Avila, catching Jose Lobaton in a rundown. Avila ran Lobaton back to third before tagging him and Yunel Escobar, who was trying to come all the way around from first."Your idea there is to get in a rundown and permit the runner to get to third base," Maddon said. "Neither one really had a good moment right there."Both runners were called out, and the unusual double play ended that threat. But the Tigers couldn't capitalize on their own first-and-third, one-out situation in the bottom of the inning. Avisail Garcia was caught trying to steal second, and Andy Dirks grounded out.Fielder extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a fourth-inning single, and he ended the Tampa Bay seventh with an unassisted double play when he caught James Loney's line drive and doubled Longoria off first.Cobb was terrific in his first outing since May 26. The right-hander missed a start because of a cut finger on his throwing hand.The Tigers could barely hit the ball out of the infield early against Cobb, who has allowed more than three earned runs only once in 11 starts this year."When you're given nine days off by the team, you kind of have to go out there and eat up some innings," Cobb said. "It was a hard-fought game the whole way. Doug Fister threw a great game against us, and it was a battle. Those games are a lot of fun to be a part of."Rays left fielder Kelly Johnson was a late scratch because of back tightness. Maddon said he expected Johnson to be ready to play Thursday.Game notes
Maddon said ace David Price (strained left triceps) might be ready to throw off a mound around the time the team returns home for a series with Baltimore that starts Friday. ... Detroit RHP Max Scherzer (7-0) will take the mound Thursday against Tampa Bay RHP Roberto Hernandez (3-5) in the finale of this three-game series.
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(Photo by Duane Burleson/Getty Images)Regular Season Series
Scoring Summary
9th | M Joyce hit sacrifice fly to center, S Fuld scored, B Zobrist to second. | 1 | 0 | |
9th | E Longoria singled to left center, B Zobrist scored. | 2 | 0 | |
9th | D Jennings tripled to deep right center, E Longoria scored. | 3 | 0 | |
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Game Information
Stadium | Comerica Park, Detroit, MI |
Attendance | 30,005 (72.7% full) - % is based on regular season capacity |
Game Time | 2:42 |
Weather | 69 degrees, partly cloudy |
Wind | 12 mph |
Umpires | Home Plate - Mike Everitt, First Base - Scott Barry, Second Base - Tim Welke, Third Base - Chris Conroy |
Research Notes
It might not blow you away with velocity, but Cobb's fastball has taken another step in 2013. Opponents are batting .209 against his fastball, the 6th-lowest among starters in the league.
His strikeout rate is up with the pitch relative to seasons past, and he's throwing it in the strike zone more often. [+]Alex Cobb Fastball Effectiveness Last 3 Seasons
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