From Bryan Hoch:
The bullpen gate swung open in the eighth inning for Clay Holmes on Wednesday evening, and as the Yankees closer trotted across the outfield grass, he recalled wondering if this would be a two-out appearance. His team had other plans: this was the ballgame.
Holmes answered the call with filthy stuff, striking out Gunnar Henderson and Adley Rutschman to extinguish an eighth-inning fire, then worked the ninth for his American League-leading 10th save. The Yankees held on, posting a 2-0 victory over the Orioles at Camden Yards.
“We were all ready to get into that game,” Holmes said. “It was just a fun game to be a part of. I think everybody down there wanted to get into it and contribute any way we could.”
Bryan Hoch had to grasp at things to be happy about in the first two games, but now, he had two great choices. He went with Clay Holmes, who really WAS excellent, but obviously, he could have just as easily gone with Luis Gil, who was outstanding tonight, probably the best I’ve ever seen him pitch.
Great work. Honestly, for as poorly as the Yankees have hit in this series, it is not like the Orioles have been bruising the baseball, either. They’ve scored six runs to the Yankees’ four.
Hopefully Rodon has a good game in the finale, with Verdugo back to help out. I still don’t quite get when Verdugo’s girlfrined had their kid. Didn’t he take off a game in spring training because she was giving birth at THAT time?
Featured image goes to Luis Gil, tipping his cap to the New York fans at the game sharing their admiration of his performance.
You know there were some striking (npi) performances when Ozzz going 2-3 with a HR and knocking in literally every run the game had doesn’t merit even a mention.
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A few bloopers caught, a few hard it balls through (more natural occurences on average) and the Yankees could be sweeping this series.
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Also, why are we interested in Rodon’s legs? And – which leg interests us, or doesn’t it matter, so long as we like one of them?
Holmes has pitched 15 innings, allowed 14 baserunners, 16 Ks, and zero earned runs. That’s quite impressive.
Then again Lee Guetterman started the 1989 season with 30 scoreless innings….and exactly why I can remember statistics like that but forget the name of my grandkids is something that is a puzzle.
Max Goodman “Baseball America released an updated top-100 prospects list today and five #Yankees made the cut.
All five of them are position players:
Jasson Domínguez, 17
Spencer Jones, 31
Austin Wells, 59
Roderick Arias, 94
George Lombard Jr., 99”
I’d prefer higher for The Martian, but #17 isn’t awful.
Day Game today. Bradish makes his debut today vs Rodon
A Volpe (R) SS
J Soto (L) RF
A Judge (R) DH
A Rizzo (L) 1B
G Torres (R) 2B
A Verdugo (L) LF
O Cabrera (S) 3B
A Wells (L) C
T Grisham (L) CF
I was just about to write about how weird it is for Verdugo to return to a demotion in the lineup, while Rizzo has been, what, oh for the series?
A perusal of the starting line-ups show that they have 4 players OPSin under 800, while the Yankes have on 2 players over 800 (with Verdugo at 804).
Crazy, especially given the names there.
clutch home run
After Rodon’s first 1/2 inning, I was upset I had to go out for a while. What a fool I was!