Series Recap: Smells fishy, Yankees split with Marlins
Looking to play baseball consistently, there wasn't a lot of consistent baseball, when the New York Yankees hosted the Miami Marlins and Donnie Baseball for a pair in the Bronx. One night the Bronx Bombers came out all gangbusters and the next, the proverbial wheels fell off.
GAME 1
After being rained out in Detroit, the Yankees were champing at the bit for some Marlin and former teammate Caleb Smith served as the human pinata in a 12-1 Pinstripes victory.
JUDGEMENT MOMENT
With the Yankees ahead 2-0 in the second inning, Aaron Judge made some home run history. Hitting a solo bomb to right for his fourth homer of the campaign, Judge became the fastest player to reach 60 home runs, doing so in 197 games played. The Judge home run gave New York a 3-0 lead.
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DI-DI DI-DI
You can rank Didi Gregorius wherever you want but you can't ignore him. For the second time this season, Gregorius registered a two-homer contest. The Yankees' shortstop went yard in the fourth and seventh, capping off the scoring rout.
SEVY ON TRACK
Luis Severino was back on track and stymied the Miami bats. Through six scoreless frames, Severino yielded only one hit and one walk, while fanning eight. Look at that movement, 99 mph on the black. Yeah, good luck with that.
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GAME 2
Following up a football score with a soccer score is nothing new in baseball. Yet, a 9-1 loss at home to these Marlins wasn't exactly what the Yankees had in mind. It was an ugly, sloppy mess of a game.
ANTI-TORRE GAME
Back in the 1990's the mantra of the Joe Torre Yankees was pitching and defense. In this one, the defense made two errors, not counting a miscue by Neil Walker which wasn't ruled an error. On the bump, while he didn't get much support behind him or at the plate, Masahiro Tanaka yielded his obligatory home run to J.Y. Realmuto in the fifth inning, a three-run bomb to right.
UGLY OFFENSE
The Yankees offense only managed four hits and one run. Marlins starter Jarlin Garcia only allowed one hit in his five frames. Also not helping matters was Walker and Tyler Austin striking out with the bases loaded in the sixth.
BIG PAPA
One bright spot for the Yankees as a solo home run to left by Miguel Andujar in the ninth. The home run was Andujar's major league jolt and prevented the Yankees from getting shut out.
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ON DECK
At 8-8, the Yankees host the Toronto Blue Jays in a four-game series starting Thursday.
Pitching probables, Aaron Sanchez vs. CC Sabathia, Marco Estrada vs. Sonny Gray, Marcus Estrada vs. Jordan Montgomery, TBD vs. Luis Severino.