CC aces test in 6-1 victory over Blue Jays
During today’s pregame, Joe Girardi was clear that he had a strict pitch count for CC Sabathia in his first game back from the DL. CC didn’t disappoint as the Yankees were able to rout the Blue Jays and win the series 6-1.
CC pitched 6 innings of shutout baseball before being relieved by Cody Eppley, Clay Rapada and Chad Qualls. Qualls gave up the sole run in the 8th inning. Andruw Jones got the Yankees 3 runs in the 2nd inning after hitting a 3 run shot off Brett Cecil. The Yankees scored their 3 runs on a Toronto error when Jayson Nix was waved home and Chris Stewart was able to advance to third. Jeter singled in Stewart and Alex Rodriguez made a force out to get Jeter home.
Robinson Cano had another hit and has a 20 game hit streak. All he needs is 37 more games and he’ll have the same hit streak record as Joe DiMaggio.
There was no news on Brett Gardner during the game which usually means “good news” but not in this case.
Tomorrow is a day game in which Hiroki Kuroda will take the mound for the Yankees. Ricky Romero will pitch for the Blue Jays.
Posted on July 18, 2012, in Game Reviews and tagged Alex Rodriguez, Andruw Jones, Brett Gardner, CC Sabathia, Chris Stewart, Derek Jeter, Jayson Nix, New York Yankees, Robinson Cano. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
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This could be nit picking and I know he has a great game but Nix trying to steal 3rd with 0 outs and getting caught was horrible. He should know better than that.
Yeah, I’m all for being aggressive and at least Nix’ blunder was an agressive one even though it goesagainst the basic principle of making the1st out at 3rd. Yanks need to tighten up their fundamentals in the 2nd half to be ready for playoffs. Cano is my favorite player , the team and maybe league’s MVP and is an absolute master at 2B and at the plate but he makes tons of baserunning blunders. He’s forgotten how many outs there were several times this yr and fell for the Jeff Nelson fake 3rd, throw to first at least twice this year.
Watching Romero pitch it reminds me how good CC has been over the years. There just aren’t too many pitchers who are good for 5 or more years in a row. The young aces like Romero, Lester, and Lincecum haven’t been able to do it.
Just heard the Sox may be trying to trade Crawford to the Marlins for Henley Rimarez and Bell.
Olney shot that down Doug which makes sense because that trade would be totally outrageous for Miami