Source: FanGraphs
Solid finish to a successful road trip, I’d say. The Yankees walloped the White Sox 12-3 on Sunday afternoon to close out the ten-game trip with a 6-4 record. They scored 78 runs in the ten games. That’s good! They also allowed 53 runs. That’s not so good. Let’s recap the win:
- One Run Early: The Yankees had a lead two pitches into the game. Jacoby Ellsbury hit a leadoff home run against Jeff Samardzija, a long shot just to the left field side of dead center. Didn’t think Ellsbury had that kind of pop. The Yankees are up to 91 first inning runs on the season, 16 more than any other team. They’re on pace for 142 first inning runs this year. The record is 147 by the 2000 Cardinals.
- Blown Open: The score remained 1-0 until the fourth inning, when the Yankees blew things open with five in the fourth and three more in the fifth. The fourth inning rally started with a Brian McCann bloop single that should have been caught — it dropped between three fielders. A walk (Carlos Beltran), a single (Chase Headley), a two-run double (Didi Gregorius), a single (Stephen Drew), a sac fly (Ellsbury), and a two-run single (Brett Gardner) followed. Mark Teixeira homered and Drew doubled in two in the fifth. Gardner’s hit was the big blow. Two outs, two strikes, and he turned a 4-0 lead into a 6-0 lead.
- Live Arm: Ivan Nova put to rest any concerns about his “arm fatigue” on Sunday. He held the White Sox to one garbage time run — the Yankees were up 9-0 at the time — in six innings, striking out seven and getting nine more outs on the ground. For the first time since his first start back, it was vintage Nova. He looked sharp. The rotation has been a bit of a mess of late. It was nice to see someone stop the bleeding, so to speak.
- Bullpen: Good time for Chase Shreve to have a rough outing. He allowed two solo homers (to righties) and a double in two-thirds of an inning. Hopefully he got it all out of his system. The just called up Branden Pinder recorded four drama-less outs and Andrew Miller retired the side in the ninth on five pitches. Miller had pitched only twice in the past ten days and has been a bit rusty since coming off the DL, so it was a good time to get him some work.
- Leftovers: Drew tripled in two more runs in the seventh. He went 3-for-5 on the afternoon to raise his batting average to .19858. Almost over the Mendoza line! … Gregorius went 2-for-4 with a walk and is up to an 82 wRC+ on the season. The league average shortstop has an 82 wRC+ in 2015. Progress! … and finally, Nova was hit in the right hand by a foul ball while in the dugout in the fifth inning. The trainers checked him out, he went back into the game, and showed no ill-effects. Phew!
Here are the box score, video highlights, updated standings, and postseason odds. Here are our Bullpen Workload and Announcer Standings pages. The Yankees have an off-day Monday and will opening a three-game series with the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night. Masahiro Tanaka and rookie southpaw Henry Owens will be the pitching matchup. Owens will be making his MLB debut.
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