Tough loss last night. Well, not tough. It’s not like the Yankees had their hearts ripped out on a walk-off. Just a frustrating loss. It happens. Can’t do anything about it now. Turn the page and move on. There’s another game this afternoon — hooray for Saturday afternoon baseball! — and a win to be had. The Yankees need as many of those as they can get given the AL East race.
On the mound today is Sonny Gray, who is coming off a very good start against the Orioles, but it was the Orioles, and they stink. Fortunately the Mets also stink, last night’s game notwithstanding. Can Gray put together back-to-back quality starts for only the third time this season? Sure hope so! Here are today’s starting lineups:
New York Yankees
1. CF Aaron Hicks
2. RF Aaron Judge
3. LF Giancarlo Stanton
4. DH Gary Sanchez
5. SS Didi Gregorius
6. 3B Miguel Andujar
7. 1B Greg Bird
8. 2B Brandon Drury
9. C Austin Romine
RHP Sonny Gray
New York Mets
1. RF Brandon Nimmo
2. DH Asdrubal Cabrera
3. 1B Wilmer Flores
4. LF Michael Conforto
5. 3B Jose Bautista
6. C Kevin Plawecki
7. SS Amed Rosario
8. CF Matt den Dekker
9. 2B Jose Reyes
LHP Steven Matz
The clouds are starting to creep in and there is rain in the forecast later today. It shouldn’t interrupt the game unless this one goes long. Get a lead after five innings just to be safe. Today’s game will begin at 1:05pm ET and you can watch on YES and WPIX locally and MLB Network nationally. Enjoy the game.
Roster Move: Welcome to the big leagues, Domingo Acevedo. He was called up today to replace Domingo German, who was sent down following last night’s game. Big Sunday replaces Little Sunday. It wasn’t supposed to go down like this. Anyway, Acevedo was scheduled to start for Double-A Trenton today, so he’s available for long relief, which I hope isn’t necessary. Acevedo is presumably only here until Luis Cessa comes up to start in German’s spot in five days.
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