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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 3, 2020 3:53:29 GMT -5
Makeup game to conclude Mets-Yankees season series FLM
The first five Subway Series games featured each team getting wins in the late innings and under unique circumstances befitting the abbreviated 60-game season.
The final meeting will occur Thursday afternoon when the New York Yankees visit the New York Mets.
The teams were originally slated to play a three-game series at Citi Field Aug. 21-23, but that series was postponed due to a Mets player and coach testing positive for coronavirus. The first two games were made up last weekend, when the Mets won the first two games and the Yankees took the next three.
Each game was decided by three or fewer runs and decided in the sixth inning or beyond.
The Mets won the second game of the series, which was the second game of a doubleheader last Friday, when Amed Rosario blasted a walk-off homer in the seventh inning off Aroldis Chapman at Yankee Stadium. The Mets were serving as the home team because it was a makeup game for one of the postponed games.
The Yankees won the final three games by scoring the winning run on a wild pitch; rallying from a five-run deficit after six innings; and getting a go-ahead pinch hit grand slam by Gary Sanchez in the eighth inning.
The Yankees are 4-9 in their past 13 games. The three wins over the Mets snapped a seven-game skid that was their longest since June 13-20, 2017, but the Yankees dropped of two of three to the AL-East leading Tampa Bay Rays, ending the series with a 5-2 loss on Wednesday.
"We just have got to move on and get ready for our next series, our next game," said bench coach Carlos Mendoza, who served as acting manager while Aaron Boone served a one-game suspension. "Obviously disappointing because the expectations are high."
The Mets return home after snapping a five-game losing streak with a 9-4 victory in Baltimore when Michael Conforto homered and drove in five runs Wednesday.
Conforto heads into Thursday batting .331 with six homers and 22 RBIs.
"His consistency and approach are good," Mets manager Luis Rojas said. "He's looking for a certain pitch, getting it and not missing it."
J.A. Happ will make his fifth start and second with less than six days rest Thursday and will face the Mets for the second straight time. On Saturday, Happ took a no-decision after allowing three hits in 7 1/3 scoreless innings.
Saturday was Happ's longest outing since June 6, 2019, and it gave him 20 innings this season. He needs to reach 10 starts or 61 1/3 innings for a $17 million vesting option to kick in for next season.
The left-hander's other start on normal rest was Aug. 5 in Philadelphia, when he allowed four runs and six walks in three innings. In his last two starts, Happ has allowed one run on six hits in 13 innings.
Happ's major league debut was against the Mets on June 30, 2007, as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, and he is 4-2 with a 3.41 ERA in 12 appearances (10 starts) against the Mets.
In his last start at Citi Field, while a member of the Toronto Blue Jays, Happ struck out 10 and allowed two hits and no walks in seven shutout innings on May 16, 2018.
Robert Gsellman is expected to start for the Mets, who are continuing to stretch him out. He opposed Happ on Saturday and allowed a run on four hits in a season-high four innings while throwing a season-high 57 pitches.
In his career against the Yankees, Gsellman has no wins or losses, but has a 1.65 ERA in seven career appearances (two starts).
--Field Level Media
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Post by Kimmi on Sept 3, 2020 6:05:32 GMT -5
Rays send Yankees early message, ride 2 Mike Brosseau get-even homers to win | Rapid reactionUpdated Sep 02, 2020; Posted Sep 02, 2020 Michael Brosseau Nearly beaned the night before, Tampa Bay Rays second baseman Mike Brosseau issued a couple paybacks to the Yankees on Wednesday night, a two-run homer off Jordan Montgomery (47) in the first inning and a solo shot facing Jonathan Holder in the fourth.AP By Randy Miller | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com The best kind of revenge there is. The Rays have the Yankees number this year. I love it.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 3, 2020 7:34:05 GMT -5
Mark Teixeira calls out Yankees’ Aroldis Chapman for headhunting, lying, not being accountable Updated 8:22 AM; Today 7:05 AM Mark Teixeira
ESPN baseball analyst Mark Teixeira thinks his former Yankees teammate Aroldis Chapman purposely throw at Rays infielder Mike Brosseau's head on Tuesday night and deserved a longer suspension than the three games handed down Wednesday by Major League Baseball.AP By Randy Miller | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Mark Teixeira thought Major League Baseball wasn’t tough enough Wednesday suspending his former Yankees teammate Aroldis Chapman for three games.
The slugging first baseman/turned ESPN baseball analyst expected the six-time All-Star closer would get four or five for just missing Rays infielder Mike Brosseau’s head with a 101-mph fastball in the ninth inning of the Yankees’ 5-3 win on Tuesday night.
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If Teixeira was judge and jury, Chapman would have been out a lot longer.
And without pay.
“I’ve been so adamant about let’s make sure that we actually have real punishments when you know that a guy threw at somebody on purpose up high,” Teixeira said Wednesday during an appearance on Michael Kay’s ESPN radio show. “If you punish a player 10, 15, 20 games without pay for hitting somebody … I’m not giving up 10 games of my paycheck to settle a beef with somebody else. But if you suspend me for one start as a starter basically and you back up a start, or a couple games as a reliever and you still get paid, alright I’ll do it. I’ll take that bullet for the team.”
Teixeira heard Chapman’s day-after comments on buzzing Brosseau, who narrowly escaped possible serious injury by ducking just in the nick of time. He didn’t buy any of it and basically called Chapman a liar for blaming the scary high and inside pitch on command issues.
“Let’s look at the facts here,” Teixeira said. “He didn’t talk to the media afterwards. If I had done that and it wasn’t on purpose … First of all, I don’t stare the guy down after. You say, ‘Hey, I am sorry. It shouldn’t have happened. I didn’t mean it.’ Apologies to Brosseau to the Rays and it’s over with. But that’s not what happened. He hid. One thing that we learned as New York Yankees is we’re accountable after the games and we talk to the press.”
Chapman didn’t want to talk after Tuesday’s game, so he waited until Wednesday, and by then his short interview included comment that he planned to appeal his suspension.
“He said his penalty was a little harsh,” Teixeira said. “We all know he did it on purpose.”
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Teixeira was mystified that Chapman got just three games for throwing the game’s hardest fastball at a hitter’s head. Early in the season, Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly received an eight-game suspension for throwing a head-high, 96-mph heater behind Astros third baseman Alex Bregman, an obvious response to Houston’s illegal sign-stealing, which was exposed last winter.
‘Because of Joe Kelly, I thought Major League Baseball would come down harder on Chapman,” Teixeira said. “This is a guy who throws over 100 miles an hour and it was obviously on purpose. I don’t think it was right and I think it should have been more.”
Teixeira also couldn’t make sense of both managers getting suspended for one game due the post-game jawing. He figured the Rays’ Kevin Cash received fair punishment for threatening the Yankees in his post-game interview saying he had a “whole damn stable of guys who throw 98” and that Boone shouldn’t have been punished at all.
“I think this kind of gets back to why a lot of people have soured on MLB and the commissioner’s office,” Teixeira said. “You go back to the Astros scandal. There was no rhyme or reason why certain things happened there. The Joe Kelley eight games, that kind of came out of nowhere. What did Boonie get a game? I don’t know. They’re just making stuff up right now.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 3, 2020 7:35:07 GMT -5
After another loss to the Rays, the Yankees’ real worry is now the Blue Jays | Klapisch Today 7:30 AM Michael Brosseau
Jordan Montgomery gave up four runs to the Rays before getting an out in the first inning, including a two-run HR by Mike BrosseauAP By Bob Klapisch | For NJ Advance Media
NEW YORK – Crazy as it sounds, the Yankees should thank the Rays for all the beat-downs they’ve been handed this summer. The Bombers will go into the postseason stripped of any delusions about their superiority. The Rays aren’t just better, they’re so far ahead it’d be an upset if the Bombers somehow got past them in the Division Series.
Remember when it was the Red Sox who brought out the best in the Yankees? Now that was a rivalry for the ages. Every game – heck, every inning – was a blood feud. Even the fans were willing soldiers. Good luck to the Sox loyalist rocking a Pedro jersey in the old Stadium. The same advisory applied to anyone walking into the Cask and Flagon wearing Jeter’s No. 2. There was a good chance you didn’t walk out.
Today the Yankees despise the Rays as they once did the Sox, but not as equals. Tampa Bay, younger and more athletic, has demoralized Aaron Boone’s club and put the rest of the American League on notice in the process. If the playoffs started today, the Rays would be the favorites to run the table straight to the World Series.
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It’s a depressing fact for millions of Yankees fans seeing the season slip away. But hold on, there’s an actual upside for the Bombers. This non-rivalry has forced them to redirect their gaze where it really belongs – over their shoulders. The Blue Jays are just a game out of second place, threatening the Yankees’ guarantee of a post-season berth.
What a come-down, but a necessary reality check. Too many Yankees are hurt and most of those who are left are invisible. We’re looking at you, Gary Sanchez, Brett Gardner, Aaron Hicks. In July, the Bombers were the equivalent of a wave crashing onto the beach, fierce-looking, full of sound and fury. But the August-September Yankees are that same wave, quietly retreating into nothingness.
This was the week the Yankees would make the Rays pay for their arrogance. If the season could be distilled to a one-game litmus test, it was Wednesday night’s showdown. Both clubs looked ready to fight 24 hours earlier, and even though a brawl was headed off by an uneasy truce – and suspensions for Aroldis Chapman, Kevin Cash and Boone – the air was thick with hostility.
With the series tied at one game apiece, the Yankees looked to Jordan Montgomery, a polite, uncomplicated lefty who’d been climbing the depth charter with his surgically rebuilt elbow and enhanced fastball. But instead of the shutdown masterpiece they’d been hoping for, the Bombers watched in shock as Montgomery was eviscerated in the span of five batters in the first inning.
And that was that in a depressing 5-2 loss.
Montgomery had previously led the League in lowest opponents’ exit velocity – he’d become the Jedi master of soft contact. But he gave up four runs before getting an out: double, home run, single, home run, double. Each hit exceeded 100 mph off the bat. The Rays, up 4-0 on Montgomery, were whooping it in the dugout loud enough for the Yankees and the YES Network audience to hear. The humiliation resonated from River Avenue throughout greater New York.
Montgomery looked and sounded like a zombie afterward, unable to explain why he’d pitched so poorly. He mumbled through the usual cliches – bad pitches, good swings by the Rays, poor execution, back to work tomorrow. Everything but the truth. Montgomery was simply no match for the more fired-up Rays lineup.
But he wasn’t alone this week. Gerrit Cole, the $324 million ace, couldn’t handle the Rays, either. About the only time the Yankees challenged Tampa Bay was when a) Masahiro Tanaka was painting the corners with perfect sliders on Tuesday night and b) they were talking trash from the dugout.
There were plenty of threats that went both ways at the conclusion of Tuesday’s game, precipitated by Chapman’s near-miss of Mike Brosseau’s head with a 101-mph fastball. The closer is appealing his suspension with the time-honored defense – " there was never any intention to hit anybody” – although his subsequent stare-down of Brosseau is what normally starts fights in bars after 2 a.m.
Indeed, several of the Yankees subtly mentioned seeing the Rays again. Somewhere, somehow, they intend to avenge the floggings. But that’s the point: the Bombers will have to get through Tampa Bay if they have plans to meet the Dodgers in the Fall Classic. Come October, the most important metric isn’t going to be who can throw the most punches, but who’s got the superior starters in a short series (it’s the Rays), who’s got the better bullpen (Rays again) and who’s scoring more runs (Rays one more time).
“The bottom line is they’ve played better baseball,” said Gary Sanchez, who wasn’t just talking about this week. Tampa Bay has beaten the Yankees eight of 10 times this season, and limited their Bombers’ offense to a .127 average (7-for-55) with runners in scoring position.
The rejoinder? This isn’t the real Yankees lineup. Put Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton and Gleyber Torres on the field and, presto, it’s the Rays who’d be crying uncle. Right? But tell me for sure when Judge and Stanton will be back. And then I’ll need a notarized guarantee that Torres, who’ll come off the Injured List before the other two, won’t tweak that hamstring again before October.
The advice for the Yankees is to stop dreaming about catching Tampa Bay and worry about the Blue Jays instead. Prepare with the weapons at hand. Fix Cole’s slider, keep Clint Frazier in the clean-up spot, book Sanchez an hour with Dr. Phil. Oh, and make sure to give Deivi Garcia the ball if and when the Bombers ever face the Rays again. Something tells me this kid is capable of saving the season.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 3, 2020 7:36:02 GMT -5
Brett Gardner not happy Yankees can’t shake funk | ‘We’ve got to pick it up’ Today 8:15 AM Brett Gardner
Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner is batting .173 for the season after going 1-for-4 in Wednesday night's 5-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.AP By Randy Miller | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Brett Gardner is not a quitter.
He’s been with the Yankees longer than any of his teammates, but he’s not quitting on himself even though he’s hitting .173 at age 37.
He’s also not quitting on his Yankees, whose championship aspirations have hit some serious turmoil in this wacky coronavirus season.
The Yankees lost to the Rays again Wednesday night. This 5-2 thumbing was their ninth in 12 games overall and No. 8 in 10 games against Tampa Bay this season with none remaining.
Losing two of three this week at Yankee Stadium also dropped the Yanks 4 ½ games behind the first-place Rays in the AL East.
“I’m very disappointed,” Gardner said. “I’m not happy about it. I don’t think anybody is. Tampa obviously has played really well against us. They’ve had our number to this point. We haven’t been able to figure them out. The hope is we’ll see those guys again in October.”
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Postseason baseball is no sure thing for the Yankees even though this season’s AL field will have eight teams instead of the usual four.
The first two teams in all three divisions plus two wild cards get in. The Yanks will go into Thursday’s 4:10 p.m., makeup game at Citi Field against the Mets second in the AL East, but they’re just a game ahead of third-place Toronto Blue Jays with a 20-15 record that is worse than the two current wild card leaders (22-15 White Sox and 22-16 Twins).
“I’m disappointed overall,” Gardner said. “Not just the way we played against the Rays, but the way we played recently. We’ve got to pick it up. "
Reasons for optimism is the Yankees’ injury list, at long last, is shrinking. Second baseman DJ LeMahieu returned last Saturday, reliever Zack Britton was activated Tuesday and shortstop Gleyber Torres is due back on Sunday. At some point the Yankees also expect to get back DH Giancarlo Stanton, right fielder Aaron Judge and probably left-hander James Paxton.
“We’ve dealt with quite a few injuries and a lot of guys out of the lineup that coming into the season we envisioned having,” Gardner said.
At this point, who knows if the nonstop injuries woes are over for a while? After all, for two seasons we’ve seen that any Yankee can get hurt at any time. Because of that, Gardner realizes the Yanks need to win with who they have.
“We haven’t been playing good baseball,” Gardner said. “It up to us in that room to collectively come together and find a way to play better.”
The Yankees still want to win their division for the second year in a row. It won’t be easy because the slumping Yanks have just 35 games remaining and the surging Rays are down to 32.
“We’re obviously not in a good position right now, but we’ve got some baseball left,” Gardner said. ”If we want to get where we want to be at the end of the season, we have to play better. It’s as simple as that.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 3, 2020 10:04:28 GMT -5
Yankeesource @yankeesource 55m The Yankees are tough to watch right now. One or two parts of their team fails each game whether it be starting pitching, offense, or bullpen. Still not too concerned and they have to keep Sanchez out there to see if things click. There isn’t a better second option right now.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 3, 2020 12:54:00 GMT -5
Subdway Series Make up Game Happ vs Gsellmen
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1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 2B 2. Luke Voit (R) DH 3. Aaron Hicks (S) CF 4. Clint Frazier (R) RF 5. Mike Ford (L) 1B 6. Gio Urshela (R) 3B 7. Brett Gardner (L) LF 8. Kyle Higashioka (R) C 9. Tyler Wade (L) SS
1. Jeff McNeil (L) 2B 2. J.D. Davis (R) DH 3. Michael Conforto (L) RF 4. Todd Frazier (R) 3B 5. Dominic Smith (L) LF 6. Pete Alonso (R) 1B 7. Jake Marisnick (R) CF 8. Amed Rosario (R) SS 9. Robinson Chirinos (R) C
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 3, 2020 13:30:54 GMT -5
Jordy Mercer Accepts Outright Assignment
By Steve Adams | September 3, 2020 at 1:01pm CDT
The Yankees announced that veteran infielder Jordy Mercer has accepted an outright assignment to the team’s alternate training site. He was designated for assignment Tuesday, just days after having his contract selected on Aug. 28. Mercer has enough service time that he could’ve rejected the assignment in favor of free agency, but he’ll instead head to the Yankees’ alternate site. As a result, he’ll remain in New York’s 60-man player pool and be eligible to return later in the season should the team wish to re-add him to the 40-man roster.
Mercer, 34, went 2-for-11 with a pair of walks in six games and 13 total plate appearances with the Yankees. The nine-year MLB veteran was Pittsburgh’s everyday shortstop from 2013-18, hitting .257/.317/.383 in 779 games along the way.
Mercer spent last year with the Tigers — his first anywhere other than the Pirates — and salvaged what was shaping up to be a dismal season with an excellent .312/.343/.512 slash in his final 48 games. He returned to the Tigers in 2020 but was cut loose early in the year when they opted to give younger talent a look as their rebuild progresses. He can play all over the infield, so it wouldn’t be a shock to see Mercer return later this month should an injury pop up in the Yankees’ infield.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 3, 2020 13:53:32 GMT -5
Yankees manager Aaron Boone said he expects Gleyber Torres (quad, hamstring) to come off the injured list Saturday or Sunday.
There was some thought that he might be ready for Friday's doubleheader in Baltimore, but the Yankees will give him at least one more day of rest and rehab. Torres has been on the injured list since August 21 because of Grade 1 strains in his left quad and left hamstring. Tyler Wade is playing shortstop Thursday versus the Mets.
Giancarlo Stanton (hamstring) is still "a ways away," per Yankees manager Aaron Boone.
Stanton resumed some light running workouts late last week at Yankee Stadium, but he will not travel with the club for an upcoming road trip to Baltimore and Toronto, and can probably be ruled out until closer to mid-September. The 30-year-old slugger has appeared in just 14 games this season with New York.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 4, 2020 3:10:00 GMT -5
Reeling Yankees blow one to Mets, fall 9-7 in 10 innings | Rapid reaction Updated Sep 03, 2020; Posted Sep 03, 2020
By Randy Miller | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
The Yankees kept blowing big leads Thursday at Citi Field, then they blew the game.
They got what they deserved in the end, another loss.
The Mets won it 9-7 in 10 innings on a two-run walk-off homer by Pete Alonso after the Yankees couldn’t hold 4-0 and 7-4 leads.
The Yankees ran themselves out of a chance to pull ahead again in the 10th when Tyler Wade started the inning on second base and then was doubled up on a lineout to righit by D.J. LeMahieu. Wade wrongly thought the low liner fell in for a hit and was standing on third base when Mets right fielder Michael Conforto threw to second base for the double play.
“It’s a situation where you have to be aware where everyone is there, especially with no outs,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “It was a mistake.”
The was the 10th loss in 13 games for the Yanks, who fell a season-high five games behind the AL East-leading Tampa Bay Rays.
In the bottom of the 10th, Yankees rookie right-hander Albert Abreu entered the game and Dominic Smith was put on second, then Alonso won it for the Mets by blasting an 0-1, 98-mph fastball into the left-field seats.
The game went extras because Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman served up a game-tying homer in the ninth to J.D. Davis.
The Yanks broke a 4-4 tie by scoring two in the seventh and one in the eighth to make it a 7-4, but the Mets got two back in the bottom of the eighth against Zack Britton before getting to Chapman in the ninth.
Earlier, Yankees starter J.A. Happ was handed a 4-0 lead in the second inning, then blew it by the fourth.
“It was one of those baseball days,” Happ said. “We’ve got to get over it and move on.”
Chapman was lucky that the game didn’t end on Davis’' homer because Jeff McNeil worked a leadoff work and speedy pinch-hitter Billy Hamilton went to second on a balk before being thrown out trying to steal third by Yankees catcher Kyle Higashioka.
Three pitches later, Davis rocked an 0-2, 99-mph fastball over the center-field wall to tie the game.
“I think we probably do feel like we let this one go,” Happ said. “I think more often than not we definitely get that game.”
LOOKING AHEAD
Friday: Yankees at Orioles, Game 1, 5:05 p.m., YES. Deivi Garcia (0-0, 0.00) or TBA vs. RHP Alex Cobb (1-3, 4.33).
Friday: Yankees at Orioles, Game 2, YES. Deivi Garcia (0-0, 0.00) or TBA vs. RHP Jorge Lopez (0-0, 7.53).
Saturday: Yankees at Orioles, 7:35 p.m., YES. RHP Gerrit Cole (4-2, 3.91) vs. LHP Keegan Akin (0-0, 3.52).
Sunday: Yankees at Orioles, 1:05 p.m., YES. RHP Masahiro Tanaka (1-1, 3.38) vs TBA.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 4, 2020 3:25:21 GMT -5
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 4, 2020 3:26:25 GMT -5
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 4, 2020 3:32:00 GMT -5
Orioles get two shots to finally beat Yankees FLM
Each of the past 18 meetings with the Baltimore Orioles have ended with handshakes for the New York Yankees.
Things are not going well for the Yankees, but they hope to maintain their recent dominance of Orioles starting pitching during a Friday doubleheader at Camden Yards in Baltimore.
The Yankees have won 18 straight over Baltimore, their third-longest winning streak over an opponent in team history. Their longest streaks are a 19-game run over the Philadelphia Athletics from 1938-39 and a 21-game run in 1927 over the St. Louis Browns, who became the Orioles in 1954.
New York kept its streak going in the opening week of the season when Aaron Judge homered in both games of a two-game series that was hastily produced after the Yankees had four games with the Philadelphia Phillies postponed due to coronavirus concerns.
Judge is among several prominent injured players, and the Yankees (20-16) are 4-10 in their last 14 games. Several of the losses were decided in the late innings due to a bullpen that has a 5.87 ERA in that span.
The latest was a 9-7 loss to the New York Mets on Thursday, when the Yankees held a three-run lead in the eighth but saw Aroldis Chapman allow a game-tying homer to J.D. Davis in the ninth and Albert Abreu give up a two-run, walk-off homer to Pete Alonso in the 10th.
The defeat dropped the Yankees five games behind the first-place Tampa Bay Rays and into a tie with the Toronto Blue Jays for second place in the American League East.
"I see the team as fine," Chapman said through an interpreter. "We have a lot of talent and we have a lot of really good players. We're going through a tough moment and I understand it's a short season, there's not a lot of time, but as far as our team, I think we should be able to be fine."
Baltimore (16-20) is also winless in its past 17 home meetings with the Yankees since July 10, 2018, and 4-12 in its last 16 overall since a 7-3 win over the Washington Nationals on Aug. 15. The Orioles split a two-game series with the New York Mets this week, taking a 9-4 loss Wednesday when they stranded six runners combined in the second, third and fourth innings.
"We squandered some offensive opportunities early to get a lead there," Baltimore manager Brandon Hyde said. "We had the right guys up."
The Orioles lost regular cleanup hitter Renato Nunez to a hamstring injury that could keep him from playing Friday. Baltimore also has been without regular second baseman Hanser Alberto for the past two games due to a minor knee injury.
The Orioles will get their first look at Yankees prospect Deivi Garcia in one of the games.
Garcia made his major league debut in the second game of Sunday's doubleheader against the Mets and allowed an unearned run in six innings of a 5-2 win. He threw 75 pitches, and the 21-year-old earned significant praise from Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez after the game.
The Yankees did not announce which pitcher would start the other game of the doubleheader, though rookie Mike King is a possibility. King threw 68 pitches in 3 2/3 innings in the first game of Sunday's doubleheader.
Alex Cobb and Jorge Lopez will pitch for the Orioles, though the order is unknown.
Cobb last pitched in a 5-0 loss to Toronto on Saturday when he allowed five runs (four earned) in four innings, equaling his shortest start of the season. Cobb is 7-4 with a 2.92 ERA in 18 career appearances (17 starts) against the Yankees.
Lopez has a 6.59 ERA in four outings (one start) with Baltimore. He allowed three runs in 4 2/3 innings in a no-decision to Toronto on Sunday.
Lopez is 0-1 with a 10.13 ERA in two career starts against the Yankees.
--Field Level Media
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 4, 2020 6:55:58 GMT -5
How Yankees’ Tyler Wade dealt with his costly ‘that-can’t-happen’ mistake Today 7:30 AM Tyler Wade
Yankees infielder Tyler Wade was a goat in Thursday's 9-7, 10-inning loss to the Mets.AP By Randy Miller | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Tyler Wade made the last out in the Yankees’ ninth Thursday at Citi Field, so after the Mets tied things up in the bottom of the inning, he was the baserunner put on second base to start the 10th.
This was the Yanks’ second time playing with baseball’s new extra-inning rules, and Wade’s game plan was to aggressively use his good speed. That’s what happened, but when Wade combined it with a terrible read of leadoff hitter DJ LeMahieu’s liner to Mets right fielder Michael Conforto, he ran the Yanks out of their last scoring opportunity.
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Wade was standing on third base when Conforto threw the ball to second base for a double play, the Yankees didn’t score and wound up losing 9-7 when Pete Alonso led off the Mets 10th with a two-run, walk-off homer facing rookie right-hander Albert Abreu.
Usually a smart baserunner, Wade was sick about his costly mistake.
“That can’t happen,” he said. “I just tried to be too aggressive right there.”
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Before being doubled up, Wade was thinking about stealing third because the Mets pitcher for the 10th was Edwin Diaz, a star closer who has a slow delivery to the plate.
“I was waiting to see what DJ did,” Wade said. “I didn’t want to make the first out at third, especially at the top of our lineup.”
When LeMahieu stepped to the plate, Wade turned around to see how deep the outfielders were playing, then he took off for third seeing the liner to short right.
“I tried to score on a ball I thought was hit softly off the bat and hung up,” Wade said. “I just made a bad read and I’ve got to better.”
The mistake became a major storyline when Alonso homered in the bottom of the inning to hand the Yankees their 10 loss in 13 games, a slide that’s sunk them from a 2 ½-game AL East lead to trailing the Tampa Bay Rays by five games.
Wade’s way of dealing with this bad day was to focus on the positive. Right after the game, the Yanks headed to Baltimore for a four-game series that begins with a Friday doubleheader.
There’s not better recipe for a Yanks’ rebound than playing the Orioles. The Yanks have beat Baltimore 18 times in a row, 16 last season and twice this year. The Yanks also are 19-0 at Oriole Park since a loss on July 10, 2018.
“It’s been tough (the last two weeks), but we’ve been grinding and we’ve been working hard,” Wade said. “The beauty of baseball is we’ve got two (games on Friday), So refresh and get after it.”
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