![]() That said, this is not the time to hit the panic button, as the team is still 14 games up in the division. With the loss, the Yankees drop to 61-26 and now have a season-worst three-game losing streak. Reiver Sanmartin gets credited with the win, improving to 2-4, while Holmes falls to 4-1. With Holmes, who has been the best closer in baseball this year, coming on for the ninth, the game should’ve already been in hand unfortunately, we already know what happened there, as he allowed five baserunners without recording an out. All-Star snub Michael King tossed a perfect, 11-pitch eighth, inducing a pair of groundouts to third and striking out Drury. ![]() For awhile, it looked like those three runs were all the Yankees would need. In the moment, it didn’t well either, as Marwin González came in with a 2-1 count and struck out, as did Trevino to end the frame.Īt this point, the Yankees’ bats went oddly quiet, as Graham Ashcraft worked around a two-out walk and hit in the fourth and a leadoff single in the fifth to keep the Yankees off the board, while a trio of relievers allowed just one walk and two hits across three innings. Three batters, two runs - it would be hard to draw up a more perfect sequence to open a game that didn’t include a home run.ĭuring the game, the Yankees announced that precautionary X-rays had come back negative, and that the initial diagnosis is a right shin contusion.Īlthough we’ll probably have more information in a day or so, fingers crossed that this simply looked worse than it is, as Hicks has become an integral part of the lineup after slumping over the first two months of the season. Anthony Rizzo hit a single up the middle, driving in both runs. Gleyber Torres then doubled, putting runners on second and third with nobody out. ![]() With Aaron Judge out of the starting lineup, the top of the order got right to work. Part of the reason Cole as able to settle in so easily was the fact that the offense struck early. Cole’s 113th and final pitch of the night was also his fastest, a 101 mph fastball that he blew past Moustakas - absolute domination from the get-go. To cap off his electric outing, he struck out the side in the seventh after allowing a leadoff single to Tyler Stephenson. In both innings, however, Cole punched out - excuse me, slapped out - Pham, ending the third and setting the stage for Votto to pop out for the third out in the sixth. India, meanwhile, opened the sixth with a double of his own before stealing third two batters later. Mike Moustakas led off the third inning with a double, advancing to third when Brandon Drury hit a two-out single to left field. That isn’t to say that the Reds didn’t threaten. When Cincinnati hitters did make contact, it was largely of the soft variety: Cole allowed just five hard-hit balls all night and kept Cincy to a paltry. He turned the strike zone into his personal canvas, utilizing Trevino’s elite framing skills and a generous bottom of the zone to paint its edges and befuddle Reds batters all night. He absolutely mowed down the Reds’ lineup, striking out 11 batters in 6 shutout innings (his fifth outing this year with at least 10 K’s, third-most in baseball), surrendering just four hits and walking only one. And that’s exactly what Gerrit Cole did tonight. When you send your ace out against a team with a lackluster starting lineup, you want him to shove. Up until the ninth inning, the game had gone much more smoothly for the Yankees. The damage was done, and after a quiet bottom of the ninth, the Yankees dropped the first game of this three-game set to the Cincinnati Reds. Peralta was within a strike of the improbable save, but Jonathan India muscled a single to center that brought in two runs, giving the Reds a 4-3 lead. Pinch-hitter Donovan Solano hit a comebacker for a fielder’s choice at home, and Nick Senzel bounced into a force at the plate as well (though a Jose Trevino bobble might have missed a chance at two). His command looked absolutely atrocious and could not find a strike zone that had been generous for most of the game, throwing just five strikes out of his 16 total pitches.įor the first time in a very long time, Aaron Boone went out and took the ball from Holmes, bringing in the lefty Wandy Peralta in with the bases loaded, nobody out, and clinging to a 3-2 lead. Asked to preserve a 3-0 lead, he walked Tommy Pham on five pitches, allowed Joey Votto to hit a single up the middle, plunked Tyler Stephenson, gave up a groundball single to Tyler Naquin, and plunked Kyle Farmer. Just three days after blowing just his second save of the season, Clay Holmes absolutely imploded in the ninth inning on Tuesday night, turning what should have been an easy win into a heartbreaking loss.
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