April 18, 2019
NEW YORK -- Right-hander Homer Bailey showed on Thursday night that he could be a candidate for American League Comeback Player of the Year. He pitched six solid innings and helped the Royals defeat the Yankees, 6-1, at Yankee Stadium.
The Royals have won five of their last seven games and improved their record to 7-12.
Bailey kept the Yankees off balance with his split-fingered fastball, slider and cutter. In those six innings, he allowed three hits, and two them came in the first inning, when the Yankees scored their only run on a sacrifice fly by Gleyber Torres. The next and last hit off Bailey didn’t come until the fourth inning, when Clint Frazier singled to center field.
This is the same Homer Bailey who had problems getting people out and staying healthy last year. Bailey, who went 1-14 with a 6.09 ERA in 20 starts for the Reds in 2018, already surpassed that win total, thanks to the six runs the Royals put up on Thursday. Jorge Soler and Ryan O'Hearn highlighted the scoring with solo home runs.\
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It was easily the Mariners’ most improbable win of the year. Blink, and you would’ve missed it.
Seattle stormed all the way back to a dramatic 5-4 win on Monday night at Yankee Stadium, manufacturing a four-spot in the top of the ninth inning to stun the American League-leading Yankees and snap their seven-game win streak.
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Yanks needed win -- historic outing seals one
Green's perfect 3-inning, 6-K save ends with immaculate frame against Mets
Chad Green reared back and dotted the top of the strike zone, a heater that Jonathan Villar waved at. The Yankees reliever pounded his right fist into his glove, perhaps not realizing that he’d just completed an immaculate inning, but well aware that it had been an important performance.
Following an afternoon in which the Yankees blew a late lead and weathered one of their most deflating defeats of the season, Green helped restore order. The right-hander’s three perfect innings sealed a 4-2 victory over the Mets, as the Yanks took the nightcap of Sunday’s Subway Series seven-inning doubleheader at Yankee Stadium.
With fireworks echoing around the South Bronx, Green struck out Michael Conforto, pinch-hitter Jeff McNeil and Villar on nine pitches in the breezy seventh. According to STATS, Green became the first pitcher in the Modern Era (since 1900) to pitch three perfect innings, strike out six batters and have an immaculate inning in the same game.
Green tossed two pitches in Game 1 of the twin bill, before yielding to closer Aroldis Chapman, who blew a save opportunity in a 10-5 loss that saw the Mets bat around for six seventh-inning runs. The Yankees bounced back, as Gio Urshela slugged an opposite-field three-run blast off Corey Oswalt that provided most of their offensive production, supporting a strong spot start by Nestor Cortes Jr.
Described by Boone as someone who “pitches without fear,” Cortes’ funky, unpredictable delivery kept the Mets guessing into the fourth inning.
“This was huge,” said Cortes, who struck out four in 3 1/3 frames of one-run ball. “We had to come out and salvage this series. It’s super important that we got the job done.”
Dominic Smith chased Cortes with a one-out double in the fourth, and Pete Alonso greeted Darren O’Day with a two-run homer, his second long ball of the doubleheader. But O’Day escaped without further damage. Brett Gardner dashed home on a fifth-inning wild pitch for an important insurance run.
Boone explained that he preferred Chapman in the Game 1 save situation because he believed Green would be needed for length, a blueprint that worked perfectly. The Mets did not get a ball out of the infield against Green, who could be considered as a fill-in closer while Chapman tries to figure out his ongoing issues with fastball command.
"Chad Green did an amazing job,” Mets manager Luis Rojas said. “That guy pitching both games, that's something special. That doesn't happen often now in baseball."
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The Yankees have never hit Justin Verlander like this.
The Bronx Bombers pounded Verlander for seven runs in Tuesday night's 10-3 demolition of the Astros in the series opener at Yankee Stadium -- the most they've scored in a game against the Astros' ace since he first arrived in Houston in 2017.
Verlander has been the Yankees' nemesis ever since, and one of the central figures in the Yankees-Astros rivalry that's become one of the game's most intense over the last decade, as the two clubs have clashed three times in the postseason, with Houston winning all three series.
Throughout that run, Verlander has always seemed to have the Yankees' number, especially in October, when Houston has beaten the Yankees in four of Verlander's five starts against them. In 12 total starts as an Astro against the Yankees, Verlander had a 2.59 ERA. But on Tuesday, New York finally turned the tables.
"Look, I think we're capable of this," manager Aaron Boone said. "Obviously you're not going to run out offensive nights like this every night -- especially against a guy like Justin. But they are capable of that."
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