The double-header boxhores on Saturday will split the Yankees and Rays a couple of seven-innings as the Yankees defeated the opening and the Rays won the nightcap.
In fact, the Yankees may have been losers, because when they walked out of Tropicana Field, they did not know how long they would be without Giancarlo Stanton.
After the Yankees won the first game, 8-4, behind the good but short of Gerrit Cole and homeless by Mike Ford, Aaron Judge and Stanton, they saw their designated hitter leave the second tilt – a 5-3 loss – with a tight left hamstring.
‘It was when he stepped on the wild field [in the fourth inning]. That’s where it struts him. We’ll get an MRI, but it looks like it’s an IL situation, ” manager Aaron Boone said.
Stanton, who was restricted to 18 games in the regular season last year due to injury, started the day in a funk for 2-for-21 (.095), but went 2-for-3 with a homer in the opener and ran twice in two plate appearances in the second game.
Miguel Andujar, recently sent to the alternative side, is a possible replacement for Stanton.
After the top of the fifth, Boone and battle coach Marcus Thames were outscored by flat umpire Vic Carapazza. The Yankees’ dugout screamed at the Rays pitchers to throw hard up and in.
The split left the Yankees with a 10-5 record. They have lost three of four and will attempt to come out of Florida on Sunday after picking up two of four from the Rays. The wrestling James Paxton (0-1, 13.50 ERA) against Charlie Morton.
One out of the way of qualifying for what would be his 20th straight win, Cole was removed by Boone after giving up a two-run homer to Jose Martinez who cut the Yankees’ lead to 5-3 in the fifth. Cole needed a high 107 pitches for seasons to enter 4 ² / ₃, in which he gave up three runs, six hits and 10. 10. The Yankees are 4-0 in Cole’s four starts.
‘Good and bad. I thought the fastball location was improved. Of course, the pitch came up and could not complete the performance as we wanted, ” said Cole. ‘But there was some kind of improvement over the whole board, that I will try to take that.’ ‘
Boone praised the Rays hitters for making Cole sweat, even at the opening of four frames when the hosts failed to score.
‘Credit to them, they obviously made him work and really pushed his numbers up,’ ‘Boone said. ‘They could get a man on base, it seemed like every inning. I thought he was generally pretty sharp so as not to get through five. ‘ ‘
An RBI double by Ji-Man Choi in the fifth was followed by Martinez’s two-run homer, and suddenly a 5-0 lead was reduced to a two-run cushion and late to Boone called on Chad Green.
‘Finally a few mistakes that cost him to get through [five]. I though the other side at least made it difficult for him when I thought he was pretty sharp, ” said Boone, who used Adam Ottavino for the seventh to seal a win that stopped a two-game losing streak .
After going 5-1 in the seventh of the second game, the Yankees rode for two runs on DJ LeMahieu’s two-out single. That brought Judge to the plate representing the potential bond loss. But his flyball to center field died on the warning lane. It may have delivered a moment of hope in the Yankees’ dugout, but Judge knew it was short-lived.
‘I got a little under it. I knew when I hit it, it was not to be made, ” said Judge, who was challenged with fastballs by Nick Anderson. ‘Just under it a bit. He has a good fastball that really plays in the zone and I could not get over it. ‘ ‘
.
