On this day, however, facing the Tampa Bay Rays, Pineda was carving.
The Rays dropped two straight after winning five of seven games for their best seven-game start in team history.
Mets 4, Phillies 3: Jay Bruce homered twice, including the tiebreaking shot in a testy eighth inning to lead NY over Philadelphia.
Caution is thrown to the wind and tomorrow the new face of the Yankees begins to take on a new look with a new name in the box score at the end of the day. The Yankees defeated the Rays 8-1. The Rays will send Blake Snell (0-1, 5.40 ERA) up against left hander Jordan Montgomery who will be making his first major league start. Myers singled in the first, doubled in the third and homered in the sixth to help the Padres win for the third time in four games. It brought back memories of Judge's first career homer, which came in his first ever at-bat last season.
"Usually I like getting to the field early on start days, just so I can settle in and kind of relax", the 6-foot-6 hurler said. Toronto had the lead in all three, highlighting the costly loss of closer Roberto Osuna who started the year on the DL with neck and back pain. Another hard hit ball would follow, but it was snagged at third base on a nice play by Chase Headley and scoop by Chris Carter at first base.
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But he had also admitted that progress was not as fast as they would like it to be, Time of India reported . The visiting leader will be accorded with a ceremonial reception at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday.
Yankees: 1B Greg Bird missed his fourth straight game. Gardner would later leave the game after a brutal collision with Rickie Weeks. After being sidelined by a sore right ankle and a stomach ailment, he was benched against a left-handed starter. The Mariners rebounded nicely from Sunday's ugly ninth-inning meltdown against the Angels when they gave up seven runs and lost 10-9.
The Rays have dropped their last eight series in NY and are looking to avoid getting swept at Yankee Stadium for the first time since losing four straight here in September 2009. "He did have a pretty good mix [of pitches]". The Rays also were 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position. Posey will be re-evaluated today but, "He's doing good, he's doing fine", Manager Bruce Bochy said. "We've got to figure out a way to clean that up".
Souza has been the Rays' best hitter so far and takes a.417 average into Monday - just in time for another trip to NY.
Weeks had a bone bruise by the shoulder joint and neck soreness. He has a fastball that tops out around 96 miles per hour, a change up, slider and curve. The Baltimore Orioles started the day as the only unbeaten team in the majors at 4-0, and could have increased that to 5-0 and an early four game lead over NY. The Yankees later tacked on two more insurance runs on a Judge home run.
Luis Severino had been scheduled to start Wednesday but will now start Thursday's series finale.
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