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New York Yankees Recap: Missing players Yankees step up to get the win over the Rangers

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New York Yankees, DJ LeMahieu

The New York Yankees entered game two of the four-game series against the Texas Rangers, one game behind in the series. The Yankees Jameson Taillon faced the Rangers Mike Foltynewicz. The New York Yankees won the game 7-4.

In the first inning, DJ LeManieu lined out to the right fielder. Brett Gardner starting in the number two spot tonight got a one-out single. Aaron Judge hit into a double play that has been so prevalent this season, ending the first half. At the bottom against Taillon, Willie Calhoun hit a single to center. Nick Solak went down on strikes. Nate Lowe hit the ball but was out. Nate Lowe stuck out to end the inning to end to the inning.

At the top of the second inning, DJ LeMahieu lined out. Rougned Odor against his old team singled to right. Gary Sanchez struck out. Miguel Andujar flew out to center to end the half. Adolis Garcia led off the bottom of the second by grounding out. David Dahl singled up the center. Isiah Kiner-Falefa hit into a double play by Rougned Odor to end the scoreless inning.

Mike Ford led off the third inning by hitting back to the pitcher. Ryan LaMarre chopped to third for the second out. DJ LeMahieu the half ended scoreless.  The bottom of the third was started by Andy Ibanez, who flew out to center. Johan Heim split the center fielders for a double. Willie Calhoun skied to left. Heim was called safe at second. Solak got an RBI single to give the Rangers the early lead. Nate Lowe, who was robbed of an extra-base hit in the first by Gardner, walked. Gallo, after a prep talk by Yankee pitching coach Harkey, Taillon walked to load the bases with two outs. Garcia singled, driving in two Ranger runs. Garcia stole second without a throw. Dahl, with two on strict out, be the Rangers scored three. Texas Rangers 3 New York Yankees 0.

At the top of the fourth, Gardner struck out. Aaron Judge had a one-out single down the middle. Gio Urshela got an RBI double to score Judge popped out to first. Andujar hit a double to center to drive in Urshela. Andujar, this hit a long single to left driving in Sanchez. Mike Ford hit a bullet single to the right-field wall moving Andujar to third. LaMarre walked to load the bases. DJ LeMahieu faced the new Rangers pitcher Kolby Allard and had a right field double driving in two runs. Brett Gardner popped out to third, but the Yankees picked up five runs in the inning to get the lead in the game. New York Yankees 5 the Rangers 3.

At the bottom of the fourth inning, Kiner-Falafa led off against Taillon and flew out. Ibanez ground out. Heim struck out for the first 1-2-3 inning for Taillon.

The top of the fifth was led off by Aaron Judge, who ground out to third base. Gio Urshela went down on strikes. Rougie Odor ripped one to the right-field wall to double. Sanchez flew out to right to end the half. At the bottom, the top of the lineup led off against Taillon on a short leash and popped out to shallow center. Solak had a solo home run to right. Lowe faced the new Yankee pitcher Wandy Peralta, and he walked. Gallo struck out. Garcia ground out to the force. New York Yankees 5 Rangers 4.

Miguel Andujar led off the sixth with a single to left-center. Mike Ford walked for two on and no outs. LaMarre rode on to right, and Andujar went to third. LeMahieu faced the new pitcher Hunter Wood, and he had a very long sac fly scoring Andujar. Gardner went down looking, but the New York Yankees picked up another run. At the bottom, Dahl popped out. Kiner-Falefa faced Jonathan Loaisgia replacing Peralta. Falefa went down looking. Ibanez popped out to Ford to end the inning. Yankees 6 Rangers 4.

Aaron Judge led off the top of the seventh, and he flew out to the warning track in center. Gio Urshela hit back to the pitcher for the second out. Odor struck out. At the bottom, Johan Heim led off, popping out to short. Calhoun lined out, and Solak ground out to Loaisiga for a 1-2-3 inning. Yankees 6 Rangers 4.

Kyle Higashioka led off the eighth inning with a single to left field. Andujar went down on strikes. Mike Ford singled, moving Higgy to third base. Wade was in to pinch runs for Ford. LaMarre ground out with the Yankees at second and third. LeMahieu ground out to center to end the half. At the bottom, Nate Lowe against Chad Green and flew out to left. Gallo hit out sharpy to Odor for the second out. Garcia flew out to Gardner. New York Yankees 6 Rangers 4.

At the top of the ninth, Brett Gardner walked. Gardner advanced on a wild pitch. Aaron Judge singled to left with Gardner going to third. Urshela, with men on the corners, chopped out, but Gardner scored. Odor against Brett Martin struck out for the second out. Higashioka tapped out to second to end the half, but the Yankees picked up another run. At the bottom with five days rest, Yankee closer Aroldis Chapman took to the mound to face David Dahl with last licks on the line for the Rangers, he struck out. Kiner-Falefa struck out. Ibanez doubled to left. Davis pinch hit for Heim and struck out with a 103 mph fastball to end the game.

The final score was New York Yankees 7 and the Texas Rangers 4. The winner was Wandy Peralta, and the loser was Mike Foltynewicz. The save went to Aroldis Chapman, his 10th of the season.

 

New York Yankees: 3 Major takeaways from finale loss to the Rays

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New York Yankees, Michael King

Last night the New York Yankees wanted to celebrate the cheerfulness of putting a bow on the series with the Tampa Bay Rays by completing the sweep of the series. That was not to be as the Rays pummeled the Yankees last night. The Yankees can take some solace, though; it’s the first time the Yankees have won a series against the Ray since the Rays swept a two-game series from the Yankees back on September 24-25, 2019. The Yankees’ last time they swept a series over the Rays at Tropicana Field was in April of 2015.

Taillon had command problems

Jameson Taillon just didn’t have his good stuff in the 9-1 rout of the New York Yankees. He got in immediate trouble in the first inning, giving up two runs, he gave up another two runs in the third inning, and his day was done after just 4.2 innings and 95 pitches thrown.

The odd thing about Taillon’s outing is that he had command one minute but not the next. He struck out 9 Rays on the day but didn’t have any consistency with his pitches. The Yankee’s pitching coach Matt Blake has been encouraging the Yankees’ pitchers to increase their use of the changeup, which they have been doing successfully. However, Taillon is the one pitcher that has not made that increase, and the reason is that it just isn’t very good.

Bullpen surprisingly fails big time

After Jameson Taillon gave up four runs, manager Aaron Boone turned the game over to his usually stellar bullpen. Unfortunately, last night that made things worse. Michael King has been good for the Yankees going several innings of scoreless relief; that was not the case last night. He gave up 3 runs in just 2.1 innings of work. Justin Wilson sealed the deal for the Yankees by giving up 2 runs in the ninth inning.

The Yankees still aren’t hitting

The New York Yankees are under tremendous pressure not to give up runs in games because across most of this season’s games; the Yankee hitters aren’t scoring. Under normal circumstances, if the starting pitching isn’t as good as expected, the hitters can pick it up for him by scoring runs. For the most part, this season, that is not happening. It’s been that the pitchers have made up for the poor hitting.

Last night the Yankees only had five hits in the game. Those few hits seldom win games. This has been a problem that has dogged the Yankees all season. Although the front of the lineup has improved considerably since the beginning of the season, the bottom of the lineup has been failing miserably. Last night Mike Ford, Clint Frazier, Miguel Andujar, and Brett Gardner combined for 9 strikeouts and no hits. Their combined batting average is just 104.5. This basically means the Yankees are operating with only half a lineup.

Excellent pitching in the first two games led the New York Yankees to win those games. However, based on industry norms, the Yankees shouldn’t have won those games either. In the entire three-game series, the Yankees only scored five runs.

 

 

New York Yankees: Jameson Taillon remains a mystery

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New York Yankees, Aaron Boone, jameson taillon

Over the last few weeks, the New York Yankees‘ rotation has really kicked things into high gear. Corey Kluber, Doming German, and Jordan Montgomery have given the squad some solid starts to back Gerrit Cole through the first six weeks of the season. However, just one pitcher has yet to have everything click, and that’s Jameson Taillon.

Taillon’s first seven starts have been a little….odd. Although he isn’t getting the desired results, his metrics aren’t terrible. Taillon sits in the top 75th percentiles of chase rate, fastball and curveball spin rate, strike percentage, and expected ERA. His WHIP is also just 1.20 despite a 5.40 ERA over 33.1 innings. However, the worrisome stats are all exit velocity related: Average exit velocity, hard-hit rate, and barrel rate. All three of these stats are in the bottom half of the league, with barrel rate being in the bottom 20 percent.

So, advanced metrics are showing that he has the stuff; he just can’t locate his pitches. His strikeout rate and spin rates are significantly better than any other year in his career, leading us to believe that he has the best stuff he’s ever had. Although his average velocity is down about one mile per hour since before his 2019 Tommy John surgery, his increased spin rates negate the speed loss.

The mystery of the entire equation is why exactly he can’t locate pitches. We saw something similar with Corey Kluber in his first three starts of the season, but he’s now finally started to hit his locations and have success because of it. Kluber has allowed just five runs in his last 25 innings, a 1.80 ERA in that span.

Once Taillon can get his control honed in, he could potentially become one of the most dominant pitchers in the game. His spin metrics compete with some of MLB’s aces, but he just can’t avoid hard contact right now. Coming back from Tommy John’s surgery is certainly a long process, but it’s definitely a bit surprising to see Taillon struggle this much.

Hopefully, Taillon can find his command soon and boost the Yankee rotation even more with the heart of the season nearing.

New York Yankees Recap: Yankees fail the sweep of the Rays big time

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New York Yankees, Aaron Boone, jameson taillon

Under the veil of the coronavirus, tonight the New York Yankees faced the Tampa Bay Rays for the finale of a three-game set, hoping for the sweep. The Yankees won the first two tames 3-1 and 2-1. Tonight the Yankees’ Jameson Taillon faced the Rays’ Rich Hill. Today Gleyber Torres tested positive and was not in the lineup for the second night in a row. So many questions remain unanswered at the Yankees go forward, but tonight they lost to the Rays 9-1.

In the first inning, Hill faced DJ LeMahieu, who had a line drive out to second. Giancarlo Stanton hammered on to left for a single. Aaron Judge flew out to the right field. Gio Urshela grounded out to third base to end the half scoreless. The bottom saw Randy Arozarena fly out to Brett Gardner. Austin Meadows went down on strikes. Manuel Margot hit single to no man’s land in center. Branden Lowe doubled, moving Margot to third base. Yandy Diaz singled for the two-run lead for the Rays. Joey Wendle struck out for the third out of the inning. Rays 2 Yankees 0.

Gary Sanchez led off the second against Hill by striking out. Mike Ford struck out. Clint Frazier walked. Miguel Andujar flew out to center field. Kevan Smith led off against Taillon, and he struck out. Brett Phillips went down on strikes. Mike Brosseau struck out for Taillon’s strikeout of the side and his fifth in the game. Rays 2 Yankees 0.

At the top of the third inning, Brett Gardner led off against the oldest pitcher in the big leagues, Rich Hill, and he walked off Hill. LeMahieu lined out to third, but Gardner moved to second. Stanton flew out to center, keeping Gardner at second base. A pitch hit Aaron Judge. Urshela, with two on and two outs, flew out to Margot in right to end the half. At the bottom, Taillon faced the top of the Ray’s lineup. Arozarena had a lead-off walk. Meadows hit a two-run homer to make it 4 runs for the Rays. Margot lined out to Judge who made a diving catch. Lowe ground out to LeMahieu. Diaz doubled down the left-field line. Diaz went to third on a Sanchez-passed ball. Wendle ground out to first to end the inning. Rays 4 Yankees 0.

Gary Sanchez led off the fourth by walking. Mike Ford lined out. Clint Frazier struck out. Miguel Andujar ground to short to end the half scoreless for the New York Yankees. At the bottom of the inning, Smith struck out. Phillips struck out. Brosseau lined out to Andujar for a 1-2-3 inning for Taillon. Rays 4 Yankees 0.

Brett Gardner led off the fifth inning struck out. LeMahieu struck out. Stanton struck out a ball way out of the zone to end the half. It was the top of the lineup for Taillon at the bottom of the fifth. Arozarena struck out for Taillon’s eighth strikeout of the game. Meadows doubled off the right-field wall. Margot struck out. Lowe walked, and that was the night for Taillon. The new Yankee pitcher was Michael King. Diaz struck out to end the inning. Rays 4 Yankees 0.

At the top of the sixth inning, Aaron Judge hit a solid double that went to the left-field wall. Urshela went down on strikes. Sanchez reached on a single, and Judge went to third. Ford hit into a double play, wasting Judge’s double. At the bottom, Wendle led off by walking against King. Smith singled for two on and no outs. Phillips went down on strikes. Brosseau tipped into the glove of Sanchez for the second out. Arozarena hit a three-run home run putting the game out of the reach of the Yankees. Meadows struck out. That’s three strikeouts in the inning for King, but he gives up his first homer of the season, and it’s a big one. Rays 7 Yankees 0.

Rich Hill, still in there after 93 pitches, faced Clint Frazier, who struck out. Andujar struck out, and that was the end of the night for Rich Hill. Louis Head took over for Hill. Gardner flew out to left to end the half. At the bottom, Margot led off striking out. Lowe ground out to LeMahieu. Diaz walked, Padlo pinch ran for him. Wendle struck out. Rays 7 Yankees 0.

DJ LeMahieu ground out. Stanton went down looking. Judge flew out to center. Smith led off the bottom of the eighth by reaching on catcher’s interference. Phillips had a base hit to right, moving Smith to second base. Brosseau reached on a fielder’s choice with Phillips out at second. Arozarena with men on the corners and one out walked. Meadows doubled, driving in two more runs. Margot popped out for the second out. Lowe struck out, but the Rays tacked on an additional two runs. Rays 9 Yankees 0.

At the top of the ninth and last licks on the line for the New York Yankees, Gio Urshela lined a base hit to left field. Gary Sanchez doubled, moving Urshela to third. Mike Ford, with two on and no outs, walks to load the bases with Yankees. Clint Frazier hit into a double play, but Urshela scored so the Yankees wouldn’t be shut out. Miguel Andujar, with two outs, flew out for the final out of the game. Final score Tampa Bay Rays 9 New York Yankees 1. The winning pitcher was Rich Hill, and the loser was Jameson Taillon.

 

 

 

New York Yankees: 3 Major takeaways from loss to the Nationals

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New York Yankees, DJ LeMahieu

After winning two of three games against the Houston Astros, the New York Yankees entertained the Washington Nationals in game one of a three-game set at Yankee Stadium in that Bronx last night. This was a much weakened Nationals team that won the World Series in 2019. They had just come off a three-game sweep by the Atlanta Braves. The Yankees lost the ugly game 11-4.

Taillon vs. Corbin

Both Jameson Taillon and the Nationals’ Patrick Corbin pitched pretty good games. Corbin went 6 innings, giving up 3 earned runs, and Taillon when 6.1 innings giving up 3 earned runs. The cause of the Yankee trampling was for the second night in a row; the Yankees bullpen fell apart.

What is so unusual about this is that up to the third game of the Astros series, the Yankee bullpen had the lowest ERA in baseball. Where that stands, presently, I am not sure. In the 3rd game of the Astros series, one of the most dependable Yankees relievers, Chad Green, gave up 3 earned runs in 1/3 of an inning, Justin Wilson gave up 2 earned runs. Last night another of the Yankees’ best relievers, Jonathan Loaisiga, entered the game with an ERA of 0.98 and gave up 5 runs in 1/3 of an inning. Luis Cessa gave up 3 runs.

LeMahieu, Sanchez, Stanton and Andujar

CBS News, this morning, had a story on the “Season of the slump.” The story basically discussed how pitchers are getting better, and hitters are paying for it. Some of the Yankee hitters have been in prolonged slumps, but they are not unique; it’s all over baseball this year. Why is not clear, but better pitching is part of the reason. There have been four no-hitters already in the first five weeks of the season.  April 9, Joe Musgrove (Padres), April 14, Carlos Rodon (White Sox), May 5, John Means (Orioles), and yesterday, Wade Miley (Reds).

The New York Yankees have spent far too long at .500 or below, a stat; they have not suffered since 1991. Although some of that fault may lie at the feet of the pitching staff, most of it is because the Yankee hitters aren’t hitting. Last night the Yankees put together a lineup that had four hitters hitting at .202 or less. And on the bench were two more players on the interstate (.115 and .169). That results in low-scoring games and ultimately in losing games.

Miguel Andujar was added to the staff last night. He went 0 for 4. Giancarlo Stanton had his 12 game hitting streak broken, although he has been the Yankees’ best hitter this season, with the most hits, most home runs, and most RBI’s. DJ LeMahieu, while hardly in a slump by most standards, his batting average is almost 100 points less than his batting average in 2020 when he was the batting champ. It’s encouraging to see his two home runs last night and seeing him go 3 for 4 after going 0-5 the previous night.

Gary Sanchez, who has been in a season-long slump, hit his first home run since the first two season games. Sanchez is hitting .182. After just one home run in his last 30 games, manager Aaron Boone is already singing the praises of the failed catcher.

“There’s a lot of underlying things that suggest he’s ready to really bust out,” Boone said Friday, before Sanchez was one of a few bright spots in an ugly 11-4 loss to the Nationals at Yankee Stadium.

Yankee errors helped the Nationals

In his longest outing of the season, Jameson Taillon got cheated out of a possible win when the bullpen and Yankee errors may have robbed him of a win. The eighth inning last night was a mess for the Yankees. It all started with Torres, whose defense has recently improved. Hernandez hit a liner to him that he didn’t catch. The usually perfect Aaron Judge bobbled a ball in right for an error that allowed Hernandez to get to second. Following that, Robles reached when DJ LeMahieu threw wide to first. That put runners on the corners with no outs, and Trea Turner’s single up the middle gave the Nationals the lead. Then the bullpen collapsed, allowing eight additional runs putting the New York Yankees out of the 11-4 game.

“It’s not good timing for those errors to happen,’’ LeMahieu said. “It was just one of those innings. We didn’t help our pitchers out there.”

 

 

New York Yankees Recap: Yankees pummeled by the Washington Nationals 11-3

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New York Yankees, Jonathan Loaisiga

The New York Yankees met up with the Washington Nationals tonight at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees’ Jameson Taillon faced the Nationals’ Patrick Corbin in the first game of a three-game set ending the Yankees longest homestand of the season. Although some of the names were the same, this is not the same team that won the 2019 World Series. The Nationals finished at the bottom of the NL East last season. The Nationals were coming off 3 straight losses to the Atlanta Braves, and the Yankees were coming off winning two of three against the Houston Astros.

In the first inning, Jameson Taillon faced off against the Nationals Trea Turner, who ground out to Miguel Andujar at first. Andujar was called up to replace Gio Urshela, who was injured in last night’s game against the Astros. Why the career 3rd baseman was playing first, I had no idea. Jost Harrison popped out to second. Juan Soto ground out for a fast inning for Taillon. DJ LeMahieu started off the bottom with a home run to right. Stanton gound out. Aaron Judge ground out. Gleyber Torres ground out to short, but the Yankees got the lead with the DJ home run. New York Yankees 1 Nats 0.

Josh Bell tied it up immediately in the top of the second inning with a home run of his own. Starlin Castro flew out to Judge in right. Kyle Schwarber walked. Yan Gomes had a two-run home run to put the Nationals up three runs.  Yadiel Hernandez ground out. Victor Robles ground out, but the Nationals picked up three runs for the Nationals 3, the Yankees 1. At the bottom, Aaron Hicks had a line drive out. Gary Sanchez hit a homer to center. Clint Frazier flew out to center. In his 2021 major league debut, Miguel Andujar flew out to the warning track in center field to end the inning. Nationals 3 Yankees 2.

At the top of the third inning, Turner ground out to Wade at second. Harrison flew out to left, but Clint Frazier made another phenomenal play catching the ball at the warning track. Juan Soto struck out for a 1-2-3 inning for Taillon. At the bottom, Tyler Wade led off by grounding out to first with a flip to the pitcher for the out. Lemahieu hit to right for a single. Giancarlo Stanton almost hit another home run to right. Aaron Judge struck out to end the inning scoreless. Nats 3 Yanks 1.

Leading off the top of the fourth was Josh Bell, who ground out to Wade. Castro ground out. Schwarber struck out for 8 in and row for Taillon after the home run. At the bottom, Torres gound out. Hicks gound out to left, and Sanchez struck out as Corbin put down the Yankees in order. Nats 3 Yankees 2.

Leading off the fifth, Hernandez rolled back to Taillon. Gomez ground out, and Robles flew out to Hicks to end the half 1-2-3 for Taillon. Clint Frazier led off the bottom by flying out to center. Andujar ground out to second. Tayler Wade ground to first as they went down for the very fast inning for both pitchers. Nats 3 Yankees 2.

At the top of the sixth, with Taillon still on the mount, turner flew out. Harrison ground out. Juan Soto struck out with Taillon putting down the last fourteen Nationals in a row. At the bottom, it was the top of the lineup for the Yankees. LeMahieu started the bottom by getting his second home run of the game to tie it up. Stanton flew out to left. Judge flew out. Torres flew out to right to end the inning, but the New York Yankees tied it up at 3 apiece.

Bell led off the top of the seventh with Taillon still on the mound; he flew out to Judge in right. Castro singled. And that was the last pitch for Taillon. He was replaced by Wandy Peralta, who faced the lefty Schwarber who struck out. Gomes struck out, leaving a Nats on base. With Corbin out of the game, Kyle Finnegan struck out Hicks. Sanchez walked. A passed ball to Gomes allowed Sanchez to go to second base. Frazier ground out to short. Andujar flew out for far center, and the game remained tied at 3 apiece.

At the top of the eighth, Hernandez led off against Jonathan Loaisiga replacing Jameson Taillon. Hernandez doubled was Judge did not cleanly handle the catch for an error. Robles made it to first on another error for the Yankees in the same inning, Hernandez to third on the DJ error. Hernandez scored on the Turner single. Harrison homered to left for a 3 run homer and the 7-3 lead for the Nationals. Loaigia had allowed only 2 runs in his first 14 outings and now four runs in one inning.  Juan Soto singled. Josh Bell struck out. Loaisiga was replaced by Luis Cessa facing Starlin Castro, who walked on four straight pitches. Schwarber, with two on and two outs, doubled as Soto scored another run, as the wheels have fallen off for the Yankees. Gomes reached on an error by Torres. Stevenson walked. Robles went down on strikes. Turner ground out but six runs scored in the inning. Nationals 9 Yankees 3.

Tyler Wade led off the bottom of eighth inning against Tanner Rainy; he walked. LeMahieu went down on strikes after going 3 for 3 and two home runs. Stanton, with a 12 game hitting streak, went down on strikes. Judge struck out for Rainy’s third strikeout of the inning. The Nationals blew the game open with 6 runs.

At the top of the ninth inning, Harrison led off by walking against Cessa still in there. Soto hit a homer to center for the Nat’s 11th run in the game. Bell lined out to LeMahieu fr the first out. Castro singled. Schwarber hit into the force for the second out. Gomes flew out to Hicks on Cessa’s 42 pitch of the game. With last licks on the line for the New York Yankees, Gleyber Torres faced Will Harris. Torres struck out swinging. Hicks walked. Sanchez, who homered in the third, flew out to the warning track in center. Hicks took second on defensive indifference. Frazier singled, driving in Hicks for the Yankees’ fourth run. Andujar ground out to end the game.

Final score Washington Nationals 11 and the New York Yankees 4. The winning pitcher was Finnegan, and the loser was Jonathan Loaisiga. The game looked good for the Yankees through seven innings, but then it all fell apart. The Nationals got 9 runs in the last two innings.

Tomorrow in a matinee matchup, game two will take place between these two teams at Yankee Stadium. Corey Kluber will face the Nationals’ Max Scherzer. The game will be televised on the YES Network, MASN, and MLBN out of market.

 

New York Yankees: Washington Nationals series preview

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The New York Yankees will start the completion of their longest homestand of the season with game one at Yankee Stadium against the Washington Nationals. The Yankees have been playing outstanding baseball that has gotten them out of the AL East cellar. They are one game above .500, after going 7-3 in their last ten games. The Yankees have played most of their games against AL East opponents, but tonight they will play their second inter-league game.

The Yankees are coming off a series win of the Houston Astros. They were hoping to sweep the series, but although ace Gerrit Cole although he left the game after six innings with the lead in the game, the bullpen that is usually great, failed miserably giving up five runs over four innings of work. The New York Yankees are now going into a three-game set with the Nationals, a team that won the World Series just two years ago. The Nationals team, the Yankees, will face, although some of the names are the same, they are not the same team that won that World Series. They ended the last season at the bottom of the NL East.

Today, May 7th, 7:05 pm.

Tonight at the Stadium, the Yankees’ Jameson Taillon will face the Nationals’ Patrick Corbin. After two years of not winning a game, Taillon got his first victory in his last outing against the Detroit Tigers. Taillon pitched five innings of one-run ball while striking out 8 Tigers. Patrick Corbin is well known to the Yankees; they have faced him twice during his career. Although both games were no-decisions for Corbin, he kept his ERA down to just 1.35 across the two games. I give the edge to the New York Yankees.

Corbin started the season horribly for the Nationals; he gave up 15 earned runs in his first two season games. He has pitched better since then, lowering his ERA to 8.10. His best outing was his last against the Marlins, when he gave up 2 runs over 7 innings. Tonight’s game will be broadcast on the YES Network, MASN in the Baltimore Washington market, and on MLBN out of market.

Saturday, May 8th, 1:05 pm.

Saturday’s matinee at Yankee Stadium will feature the Yankees’ Corey Kluber (2-2) facing the Nationals’ Max Scherzer (2-2). Corey Kluber is coming off his best-pitched game of the season and the AL pitcher of the week after going 2-0 off the Orioles and Tigers. In his last start, the 2 time Cy Young award winner got a career-high 13 swings and misses on his changeup. A very slight edge goes to the Nationals.

Max Scherzer is a thirteen-year veteran pitcher that hasn’t had a losing season since 2010. He has had two 20+ winning seasons. The 36-year-old has a career record of 177-95. He is a strikeout king. This season he has 39 strikeouts in five games and is coming off a complete-game win over the Miami Marlins. The game will be televised on the YES Network, MASN, and MLBN out of market.

Sunday, May 9th, 1:05 pm.

Sunday’s game is the most difficult to predict the outcome; much has to do with which Domingo German shows up. German (2-2 ERA 4.32) will face the Nationals’ Joe Ross (2-2 ERA 4.39). Between his 2 starts against the Orioles and Cleveland, German went 12 innings scoreless, but in his last outing, he went only five innings giving up three earned runs; in a game, the Yankees eventually won over the Astros.

Joe Ross has never faced the New York Yankees before and has not experienced Yankee Stadium and its fans. He is 3-2 in interleague games in his career. So far this season, the Nationals had lost 3 of his 5 starts, including his last start against the Atlanta Braves, when he went 5.1 innings giving up 2 earned runs while striking out 3 and walking 2 Braves. The Sunday matinee will be televised on the YES Network, MASN, and MLB out of market.

New York Yankees Recap: Taillon gets his first win, Yankees 6 Tigers 4

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New York Yankees, Aaron Boone, jameson taillon

Today’s New York Yankee game was a matinee at 1:05 pm. They met the Detroit Tigers in the second game of the three-game weekend series. Jameson Taillon was on the mound for the Yankees and Spencer Turnbull for the Tigers at Yankee Stadium. It was a beautiful day for a ball game in the Bronx, New York. It was sunny with a game-time temperature of 58 degrees with only a light breeze.

Jameson Taillon took to the mound to start the game, facing Robbie Grossman, who flew to right, but Clint Frazier dropped the ball, and Grossman went to second on the error. Willi Castro struck out. Miguel Cabrera flew out to Frazier. Frazier threw to third, preventing Grossman from advancing. Jonathan Schoop struck out, getting Taillon out of the inning scoreless. The Yankees took to the plate in the bottom with DJ LeMahieu leading off; he had a slow roller for a single. Aaron Judge flew out to centerfield. Rougie Odor lined out to first. Gleyber Torres ground out to end the inning with no score.

The top of the second was led off by Candelario striking out against Taillon. Akil Baddoo walked. Niko Goodrum struck out. Grayson Greiner flew out to center. At the bottom, Mike Ford led off singling on an E4. Aaron Hicks flew out to shallow right. Gary Sanchez singled into the force with Ford out at second. Clint Frazier ground out to third to end the inning. No score.

JaCoby Jones led off the top of the third inning and ground out to LeMahieu at third. Grossman flew to short center, and Torres made a beautiful scoop catch over his head. Castro struck out for Taillon’s fifth strikeout. At the bottom, Brett Gardner popped out to left. LeMahieu walked. Judge singled, beating out the throw. Odor with two on and only one out popped out to short. Torres shot an RBI single down the middle to score LeMahieu for the New York Yankee lead. Mike Ford worked a walk. Aaron Hicks struck out, leaving the bases loaded with Yankees. Yankees 1 Tigers 0.

Leading off the fourth was Miguel Cabrera, who struck out. Schoop flew out to Brett Gardner, who had to battle the sun to make the play. Candelario hammered a homer into the short porch. Baddoo struck out for Taillon’s seventh strikeout of the game, but the Tigers tied it up. At the bottom, Sanchez ground out to short. Frazier ground out to third. Gardner also ground out for three ground-outs. Yankees 1 Tigers 1.

Goodrum led off the fifth with a single up the middle. Goodrum stole second. Greiner flew out to Frazier, with Frazier firing in, holding Goodrum at second. Jones hit Goodrum running to third for two outs. Grossman walked. Castro walked to load the bases. Cabrera struck out on a Taillon fastball to leave the bases loaded with Tigers. Back to the top of the Yankee lineup at the bottom. LeMahieu singled up the middle. DJ tried to steal second and went to third on a bad throw. Judge doubled to the left-field wall scoring LeMahieu with his double. Odor ground out to first, moving Judge to third. Torres ground out to short for the second out. Ford grounded out softly to end the inning. Yankees 2 Tigers 1.

Jameson Taillon had a good game, but out of the game, Jonathan Loaisiga took over, grounding out Schoop. Candelario singled. Baddoo singled, but Candelario was called out at second. Baddoo stole second. Baddoo went to third on a passed ball by Sanchez. Goodrum walked. Greiner was up with two outs and runners on the corners. Greiner ground out to Ford to end the half and allow Loaisiga to get out of trouble. At the bottom, Hicks was hit by a pitch. Sanchez walked, knocking Turnbull out of the game. The new pitcher was Jose Cisnero facing Frazier, who walked to load the bases with no outs. Gardner popped out to the infield. LeMahieu stuck out. Aaron Judge singled, bringing in two runners. Rougie Odor, with men on the corners and two outs, walked to load the bases again. Torres singled, driving in two more runs knocking Cisnero out in favor of Alex Lange. Mike Ford at the plate, Torres tried to steal second for the last out of the inning. New York Yankees 6 Tigers 1.

At the top, with Justin Wilson on the mound, Jones walked, which was followed by a Grossman walk. Castro struck out. Cabrera ground out, and the runners moved up. Schoop singled, driving in two runs for the Tigers. Candelario singled, driving Wilson out of the game. Chad Green faced Baddo two on, and two outs and was overpowered by Green on three pitches. Ford led off the bottom by grounding out to first. Hicks singled to right. A passed ball allowed Hicks to go to second. Gary Sanchez struck out looking. Frazier went down on strikes. Yankees 6 Tigers 3.

Goodrum led off the eighth with a towering homer into the second deck of the right-field stands. Greiner ground out to LeMahieu. Jones struck out. Grossman flew out to center, but the Tigers picked up another run. At the bottom, Derek Holland took over for the Tigers against Gardner, who walked. LeMahieu flew out to right. Judge struck out. Odor ground out to end the inning. Yankees 6 Tigers 4.

Aroldis Chapman came out to close it out for the Yankees in the top of the ninth. He faced Willie Castro that struck out on a 101 mph Chapman fastball. Cabrera ground out to first. Schoop stuck out, giving Jameson Taillon the win, the loss went to Turnbull, and the save belonged to Aroldis Chapman. The final score was New York Yankees 4 and the Detroit Tigers 4.

New York Yankees: Detroit Tigers series preview

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Gerrit Cole, New York Yankees

Tonight at Yankee Stadium, the New York Yankees will face the Detroit Tigers for their first meeting of the new season, a three-game set. Entering the series, the Yankees are coming off a split of a four-game series with the Baltimore Orioles and are 11-14 at the bottom of the AL East. The Tigers are coming off a series with the White Sox in which they won one of three and are 8-18 at the bottom of the AL Central.

The New Detroit Tigers manager is A.J. Hinch, the infamous manager of the 2017 Houston Astros. He is coming off a suspension for his part in the Astros cheating scandal that may have cost the New York Yankees an appearance in the World Series and cost Aaron Judge the Rookie of the Year Award that was awarded to Jose Altuve. No doubt he will not receive a polite welcome at the stadium tonight.

Tonight at 7:05 pm.

Tonight the Yankee’s ace Gerrit Cole will take the mound facing the Tigers’ Tarik Skubal, a lefty with a 0-3 record with an ERA of 5.21. Cole has a 3-1 record with an ERA of 1.71. Cole is coming off his most impressive win of the season when he beat the Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber. He stuck out 11 Indians in seven innings of work. Skubal is coming off a 2 2/3 inning loss to the Royals. He has pitched only 19 innings combined in his five starts.

Saturday, May 1st, 1:05 pm:

The second game matinee of the series will feature Jameson Taillon on the mound for the Yankees and Spenser Turnbull for the Tigers. Taillon has stumbled a bit early this season, going 0-2 with an elevated ERA of 6.23 but with 21 strikeouts. He had one of the worst starts of his career when he faced the Tigers in 2018; he gave up 10 hits in just 3 2/3 innings. Turnbull has a 1-1 record with an ERA of 3.27. His last start was against the Royals; he took the loss giving up 3 runs across six innings of work.

Sunday, May 2nd, 1:05 pm:

The finale of the 3 game set will be on Sunday, and we will see Corey Kluber on the mound at the Stadium for the Yankees. He will face the Tigers’ Jose Urena. Urena’s record is 1-3 with an ERA of 3.77, Kluber’s record is 1-2 with a 4.15 ERA. Kluber is coming off his best start of the season, a win against the Orioles when he gave up just one run going into the seventh inning. Urena is also coming off his first win of the season despite having 5 errors committed in the game. Urena has pitched well against the Yankees. He has a 2.16 ERA against the Yankees in two career starts.

The weather at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York, should not be a problem for any of the three games. Wind could be an issue tonight when winds could gust to 40 mph. Both weekend matinees should be sunny with temperatures in the mid-’70s.

 

Yankees: Home run ball once again ruins a Jameson Taillon outing, but better days are ahead

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New York Yankees, Jameson Taillon

The New York Yankees dropped the series finale against Cleveland 7-3 on Sunday. Jameson Taillon, the starter for the Bombers, had pitched three scoreless innings to open the game, but things started to unravel in the fourth frame.

The Yankees’ hurler threw 36 pitches in that fourth frame, in which Cleveland scored four runs. Three hits produced a run, capped by an Amed Rosario single. But it was Franmil Reyes’ three-run bomb the one that ruined Taillon’s outing.

He left a 94 mph fastball in the fat zone of the plate, and Reyes, a known slugger, didn’t miss.

“Those are the tough ones to swallow,” Taillon told MLB.com after the game. “I thought I threw the ball really well, but this is a results league. You get to two strikes, and you’re giving up two-strike hits; that’s all it takes to win a game. Today was a streak of three or four hitters that ruined our chances at a win, so it happens quick.”

The Yankees’ righty has pitched better than his ERA suggests

After Sunday’s home run, Taillon has a 6.23 ERA so far in his first season with the Yankees, but it comes with much better underlying run-prevention metrics: his expected ERA is 2.94, his FIP is 4.19, and his expected FIP is 3.79.

Of course, we are talking about a 17.1 inning sample, but the most worrying stat in Taillon’s profile is his career-high 2.08 home runs allowed per nine innings. To lower his ERA, he will need to start suppressing the long ball.

His 0/6 BB/K ratio on Sunday (2/21 for the season) is a sign of better days ahead.

“I actually thought he finished strong today; I thought the stuff was good throughout,” Yankees’ manager Aaron Boone said. “Of the four starts, two have been really strong. Today was a little bit unfortunate, and really one mistake to Reyes that hurt.”