From Bryan Hoch:
Jazz Chisholm Jr. held his pose for an extra second, arms locked as he tracked the flight of a sixth-inning drive toward the right-center-field seats. The Yankees infielder looked toward his teammates in the first-base dugout, then tossed his lumber into the air.
“Finally,” Chisholm said. “It’s about time; I’ve been waiting on it, working on it, and I’m finally getting some luck.”
Chisholm’s tiebreaking blast off Jacob deGrom gave New York its first lead of the game. Ryan McMahon and Paul Goldschmidt also homered as the Yankees continued to roll, posting their 15th win in 17 games with a 7-4 victory over the Rangers on Tuesday evening at Yankee Stadium.
I legit can’t believe that they won that game. Elmer Rodriguez allowed three run in the first inning alone, throwing almost 40 pitches! And the opponent was Jacob fucking DeGrom! But the Yankees somehow found a way to win, tagging DeGrom for four legit runs, and then two more bogus runs later (raising his ERA a full RUN).
The bullpen was outstanding once again, with only Bednar giving up a run, but it was a bit of a bogus one, as Ezekiel Duran decided to leg out a triple rather than take the double with one out and the Rangers down four runs (after Bednar snuffed out a rally in the 8th inning by retiring the two batters he faced with the Yankees clinging to a three-run lead and the bases loaded). He then scored on a groundout.
This is such a great win that I can’t even begrudge the Rays for yet ANOTHER one-run win by them (especially since they are playing Toronto. Help Toronto rack up a many losses as possible before they make their inevitable run later in the season).
Featured image is Jazz breaking the tie, with a nice bat flip.
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I don’t get that at all. If Duran had been out at third, I could see calling him dumb for taking the risk. (As he made it there safely, it’s hard even to say he was wrong.)
But I can’t see even the shadow of an argument that Bednar didn’t actually give up the triple, and thus the run.
It’s like when a runner reaches on an infield single/bad job by defense, then advances to third on two defensive indifferences and then scores on a groundnut. 100% earned run, but it doesn’t feel like it.
Same thing here. Up four, the Yankee fielders were defensively indifferent, assuming it was a double, which they were fine with. Duran decided to push it into a triple for no real reason, and that’s the only reason he scored. 100% earned run, but doesn’t really feel like it.
His run was meaningless. What if he tore something? What if he tripped? That said I don’t care. I doubt Bednar cares, he’s not winning any era titles this year.
Correa ankle surgery done for the season
Couldn’t happen to a guy who was more a proven participant in an as-yet unpunished undermining-the-integrity-of-baseball-by-actually-directly-cheating scandal.
Crazy win.
Does anyone know what the Yankees win probability was after the top of the first inning?
Curry said It was 25% but what was it when Texas had the bases loaded in the first?