He said he didn’t believe he’d have to miss a start, and even if true, the Yankees are going to play it safe early in the season.
Cashner allowed five runs (four earned) over five innings in his Orioles debut last weekend against the Twins and will look to impress during his first career start in the Bronx. Faedo threw 53 of 72 pitches for strikes.
Tanaka dodged a bullet in the first, when a runner was out trying to score from first on a two-out Jones double. Also, Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said pitcher Mike Fiers (lumbar strain) will be activated from the DL in time to start Sunday’s game. Aaron Judge had a run-scoring double. “Last night was such a long game, I needed to get deeper in that game, I was one or two pitches away from getting really deep in that game”.
– Baltimore had runners at the corners in the 10th, but Chad Green struck out Colby Rasmus to end the inning.
RHP Drew Carlton (W, 1-0) replaced Faedo in the sixth and Pablo Olivares greeted the reliever with a leadoff single to left. Trey Mancini singles to right field, advances to 2nd. Arcia followed with a single to right field, plating Pina for the winning run.
“I knew it was not an ideal pitch and as soon as it left, I knew he got the barrel of the bat but I thought maybe it was 50/50”, Tanaka said through an interpreter. Alvarez’s grand slam occurred after Adam Jones was almost ejected for arguing a called third strike. “So you got to weather the storm and guys have to step up”.
Andujar snapped an 0-for-12 slide with a hit that sparked an two-run second inning, and Peterson could have changed the full complexion of the match with a running-into-the-wall catch to rob Pedro Alvarez, that hit the deciding grand slam on Friday, of an potential two-run ambigu. -) start, making his Tarpons debut against Lakeland LHP Austin Sodders (0-0, -. The first 13 innings took 4 hours, 53 minutes, and included some wild misadventures on the bases. They’ve lost 0.5 units for moneyline gamblers in this young season and 2.7 units ATS. Pirela followed and gave the Padres a 3-1 lead. He was removed after four innings of what would become a 14-inning game because of pain in his hip. He might have been able to continue on in the game if his hip didn’t start to bother him. Aaron Judge added two RBI while Miguel Andujar had the other Yankee RBI.
After allowing five runs on eight hits in 5⅓ innings Saturday, Tillman has pitched 9⅓ innings and allowed 2.46 base runners per inning, carrying over the problems that hampered him a year ago and caused him to end the season with a 7.84 ERA.
Right-handers Brian Trieglaff and Braden Bristo settled things down for the RiverDogs out of the bullpen, turning in 3 2/3 scoreless innings with six punchouts combined.