Yankees’ Gary Sanchez makes Major League Baseball history with 11th home run

Before the game, Girardi had called Sanchez’s budding career statistics “off the charts”, and admitted that even though Sanchez came with a lot of promise ever since the Bombers signed him in 2009, no one in the team’s front office on down could have anticipated this kind of torrid start. Eight of those have been in his last nine games, and in his last 10 games he is 20-for-37 (.541).

He’ll have to keep up this unprecedented pace to so much as threaten Fulmer, but leading the Yankees from hopeless mediocrity to the postseason would be a decent resume booster.

“That’s about nine of those this year, ” Showalter said. “He continues to just swing the bat extremely well”. “He’s patient, he gets his pitch, and he’s not missing it right now“.

In particular, Sanchez is hitting.403/.459/.883 in 77 at-bats to start his career, seemingly out of nowhere.

After a two-hit game, Ronald Torreyes is now hitting.550 with six runs, five doubles and four RBI in his past six games.

Gary Sánchez is the 1st rookie to have 10 HR and 20 RBI in his first 20 games of a season since RBI became official in 1920 (@EliasSports).

After their sublime performance versus DC, the Orioles (70-57) went from being 2.5-games off the pace of the Red Sox and Blue Jays to nipping at their heels again while also holding a two-game lead over Detroit for the final wild card spot in the AL. He completed a rehab assignment Thursday, appearing in five games across three minor league levels.

Trevor Plouffe hit a solo homer for the last-place Twins. Sanchez boasts a.403 batting average with 10 homers and 20 RBIs through his first 20 Major League Baseball tilts. The veteran Reimold, who had played 12 career games in center prior to Friday, had just replaced Jones in the field to start the inning.

Verlander (14-7) allowed two runs and four hits in 7 2/3 innings.

And throughout his minor league career, he has shown flashes of the promise the Yankees believed they saw in him, hitting.353 in the Rookie League as a 17-year-old and 13 homers in each of his first seasons in high-A and Double-A. Aside from two home runs by Manny Machado, Cessa was awfully good in picking up his fourth win of the season. He has allowed one homer in 13 frames over his last four appearances after giving up four blasts in 11 2/3 innings over five relief outings to start the year. After allowing just one earned run in his previous 12 innings pitched, including a dominant 11-strikeout, two-hitter against the Blue Jays on August 15, Green yielded four runs on seven hits in 4 2/3 innings. “Never really got any sequences going”.

Events turned from bad to worse during a tumultuous second inning for the Baltimore Orioles Friday night in the Bronx.

“It (stinks)”, Jones said.

“I feel like I let my team down”.

With Brian McCann at the plate, the Yankees sent Gregorius home on a double steal attempt.

To make room for McFarland, Baltimore designated right-hander Logan Ondrusek for assignment off the 25-man roster. It was the third straight day the Orioles made a transaction with a pitcher and 10th instance this month. “The way I looked at it was what was to say that the young guys wouldn’t come in, do a great job and give us a shot in the race”.