The nine-game road trip through the Midwest is finally over. Or at least it will be in a few hours. The Yankees have split the first eight games of the trip and were a David Robertson blown save away from winning five of eight (two opponent’s blown saves away from 2-6!). Tonight’s series finale against the Cardinals will determine if was a good trip or a bad one, relatively speaking. Not a whole lot of difference between 5-4 and 4-5, really.
With the off-day coming tomorrow and the non-Alfredo Aceves portion of the bullpen getting a rest yesterday, Joe Girardi is free to go nuts with his top relievers to nail down this win. Multiple innings for Dellin Betances and Adam Warren plus a four-out save from David Robertson? Girardi has done it before on this trip and I suspect he’ll do it again. Hopefully Hiroki Kuroda and the offense makes it a moot point. Here is the Cardinals lineup and here is the Yankees lineup:
- LF Brett Gardner
- 2B Brian Roberts
- CF Jacoby Ellsbury
- 1B Brian McCann — yes, first base
- C John Ryan Murphy
- RF Ichiro Suzuki
- SS Brendan Ryan
- 3B Kelly Johnson
- RHP Hiroki Kuroda
It’s another hot and humid day in St. Louis, plus there is some rain in the forecast later tonight. Same weather for all three games. The Yankees don’t visit the Cardinals again this year, so expect them to wait out the rain as long as possible if there’s a delay. First pitch is scheduled for a little after 8pm ET and you can watch on YES locally and MLB Network nationally. Enjoy.
Update (7:53pm): The game is scheduled to start at 8:20pm ET now. There was a slight rain delay.
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