Highbridge News: Fuming #Yankees Fizzle

Highbridge News: Fuming #Yankees Fizzle: Fuming #Yankees Fizzle Loney and #Longoria Ensure Tampa Win By Howard Goldin BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 6- T h...

Fuming #Yankees Fizzle

Fuming #Yankees Fizzle

Loney and #Longoria Ensure Tampa Win

By Howard Goldin

BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 6- The Tampa Rays snapped a seven game losing streak with an 8-1 victory over the Yanks on Sunday afternoon. The Tampa win also ended the three-game winning streak of the Yanks, but New York is still in first place in the American League East.

Two of the Rays offensive standouts, Evan Longoria and James Loney, have found Yankee pitching especially vulnerable to their bats and Yankee Stadium as comfortable as a second home. Third sacker Longoria doubled, singled and walked in five trips to the plate on Sunday, the final game of the three game set.

His double in the first moved David DeJesus to third with one out. The next batter, Loney, singled in both runners. Although the Rays scored six additional runs in the game, the first two were sufficient to ensure the win for Tampa. 

The Tampa skipper remarked, “Those early runs really helped.” Erasmo Ramirez, the Tampa starter, felt the first inning support helped him greatly, “In the first inning you got run support antd then you just have to do your thing. You have to keep the ball down and in the ballpark.”

Longoria’s statistics against the Yankees since his major league debut in 2008 are extremely impressive. He has hit more home runs (28) and driven in more runs (84) against the Yanks than any other player. His home runs (13) and RBI (40) have not been bettered by any visiting player in the current Yankee Stadium. His 62 hits are second only to Nick Markakis (72). 

Although Loney’s 2 RBI single was his only hit in five official at bats on Sunday, his batting average at the current Yankee stadium is .405 (45 for 12), which only follows Justin Morneau (.433) and Kurt Suzuki (.411).In 55 games against the yanks Loney is batting .340 and has an OPS of .857.

The only run scored by the Yankees came on a lead-off home run by Alex Rodriguez in the sixth off starter Erasmo Ramirez, the winning pitcher. A-Rod’s career offensive statistics are growing higher on an almost daily basis. His home run gave him 1,964 runs scored, 3,016 hits, 670 home runs and 2,016 runs batted in. 

The post-game comments of each manager were very different. Kevin Cash of the Rays said, “We really needed that.” Yankees skipper Joe Girardi remarked, “You just need to turn the page.”

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Highbridge News: 2nd Straight Walk-off Win for #Yankees

Highbridge News: 2nd Straight Walk-off Win for #Yankees: 2 nd  Straight Walk-off Win for #Yankees By Howard  Goldin Yankee fans at the St adium on July 3 and /or  July 4 enjoyed an excitin...

2nd Straight Walk-off Win for #Yankees

2nd Straight Walk-off Win for #Yankees

By Howard Goldin

Yankee fans at the Stadium on July 3 and/or July 4 enjoyed an exciting game in which their team won the contest in their final inning at bat. 

Michael Pineda helped the Yankees to their third straight victory with an outstanding pitching performance in the July 4 matinee. The right-hander surrendered a double to the final batter he faced, Curt Casali, who led off the eighth frame. Prior to that batter, Pineda had retired the previous 12 straight batters. The Dominican native gave up zero runs for the only the second time in 2015. He held the Blue Jays scoreless in eight innings on May 5.

Pineda exhibited excellent control of his pitches, walking one batter and fanning 10. It was the second game this year in which he struck out at least 10 batters. Pineda is fifth in the American League in strikeouts per nine innings (K/9IP) and is second in MLB in K/BB ratio. Only Max Scherzer of the Washington Nationals has a higher ratio of strikeouts to walks. Even though Pineda did not receive the win, he was pleased with the result, “I want to help my team. I’m happy today because we win. I’m focusing on the team.”

The Rays rookie starter, Nathan Karns, also pitched outstandingly in his seven inning stint. The righty equaled Pineda by only yielding five hits and fanning 10 batters, his career high. Yankee skipper Joe Girardisaid of the rookie, “He has been tough on us. He’s pitched pretty well all year long.” 

The two runs off Karns came from singles by the first three Yankees batters, Brett Gardner, Chase Headley and Alex Rodriguez. Rodriguez’s single knocked in his career 2,015 run. The sacrifice fly by the next batter, Mark Teixeira, accounted for the second run in the frame. Teixeira leads the A.L. in RBI with 59.

Despite their excellent performances, neither starting pitcher was involved in the decision. With DellinBetances on the mound for the Yanks, “Yankee killer”James Loney led off the ninth with his second single of the game. Loney has the second highest batting average in the current Yankee Stadium, .411 (44 for 1070. Steven Souza, Jr. flowed with his 15th home run of the 2015 campaign on a 2-2 pitch to knot the score at 2. Yankee receiver John Ryan Murphy said of Betances, “Any time a man gets on base [against Betances] it’s shocking.”

The disappointment for the Yankee fans in the ballpark was short-lived as the Yankees achieved the walk-off win before one out was recorded in the bottom of the same inning. Teixeira led off the frame with a double. He was pinch run for by Jose Pirela. Ramon Flores,who was recalled by AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre o0n the previous day, bunted and Tampa pitcher Brad Boxbarber made a throwing error that gave the Yankees the winning run.

In the final game of the three game set on Sunday afternoon, Ivan Nova will make his third start of the season for the Yanks against rookie Erasmo Ramirez of the Rays.

Highbridge News: #Yankees Light off the Fireworks

Highbridge News: #Yankees Light off the Fireworks: #Yankees Light off the Fireworks  McCann Walk Off Saves the Day By Rich Mancuso BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 4-...

#Yankees Light off the Fireworks

#Yankees Light off the Fireworks 

McCann Walk Off Saves the Day

By Rich Mancuso

BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 4- It is early July and the New York Yankees know games against AL East division teams will be significant. The one played against the Tampa Bay Rays Friday night in the Bronx, won by the Yankees 7-5 on a walk-off home run in the 12th inning from Brian McCann, can be considered important.

And in the words of Brett Gardner, to the Yankees it was “the biggest win of the year by far.” It was a comeback win in July Bronxnews

that is seen with a tight pennant race in September, and the way this division race is materializing a win like this one could mean a lot when the last few games are played.

The Yankees scored all their runs on the home run ball, Mark Teixeira hit a game tying three-run shot to right in the eighth inning. They had to wait a few extra innings for McCann to display the fireworks with another long shot to right that put his team, at least for the moment in first place.

“It was one of the best feelings you can possibly have,” McCann said about his seventh career walk-off hit and third as a Yankee. And it was a dramatic home run, because the Yankees have not had a walk-off win since the final home game of last season when Derek Jeter got the winning hit in his Bronx finale.

McCann added, “A big spot like that against a team in our division, It’s a great feeling.” 

The division, as it stands now, could go down to the wire. That is why the Yankees fought and had that never quit attitude, and it also helps that their home ballpark is built for their home run hitting team. The Yankees hit a lot of home runs, second in the American League, and have homered in 29 of 36 home games.

“Good way to start the homestand against a division team,” manager Joe Girardi said. After his team completed a 3-4 road trip at Houston and Los Angeles, Girardi said the division games would be important because the race for first place would not be decided until those last days in September.

And what helps more, as the first half of the schedule concludes, is that his team has a majority of games remaining in the 

Bronx, 36 of their first 80 have been at Yankee Stadium. 

The home run and walk-off win put the Yankees a game ahead of the Orioles. and two games in front of the Rays and Toronto Blue Jays in the division.

And home cooking was good for the Yankees Friday night. They could not reach Tampa Bay starter Chris Archer again. MThe right hander, third in the AL among earned run average leaders, came into the game 5-0 in seven career starts against New York, but he failed to become the seventh pitcher since 1914 to begin a career against the Yankees at 6-0 or better,   

Archer did not figure in the decision after allowing no runs, three hits in 6.21 innings and tossing a career high 122 pitches. However it was his 11th quality start and if it were not for the home run ball by Teixeira, his 20th off a 1-0 fastball from Kevin Jepsen, Archer would have added to his win mark.

“it was a battle,” Archer said. “They have a good lineup and know how to work counts.” Yankees starter Masahiro Tanaka, with the exception of giving up two runs in the first inning, threw the ball well and avoided a third straight loss. 

But it was those fireworks in the 12th inning the Yankees provided with  the slim crowd remaining of the 43, 141 before the July 4th holiday. A division win they know was important.

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