You want the good news or the bad news first? Ok, let’s go with the good…a makeshift Yankees lineup pounded David Price in a 7-4 victory Sunday night that sent the defending World Series champion Boston Red Sox to their eighth consecutive defeat. Bring out the brooms; it was a 4 game stadium sweep, basically ending any hope the Red Sox might have had to catch the Yankees in the A.L.East race. The lefty Price gave up a season-high 7 runs and 7 hits before walking slowly to the dugout in the third inning. He is 0-3 with a 10.59 ERA in just 17 innings over his last four outings. He has a lifetime ERA of 9.61 against the Bombers. Hey David, who’s your Daddy? Now the bad… Aaron Hicks went on the 10-day injured list with a flexor strain in his right elbow. Hicks won't throw for a week to 10 days, but Aaron Boone is optimistic he'll return this season. Brett Gardner becomes the primary center fielder (again). ... Didi Gregorius returned to the lineup for the first time since rolling over his left wrist fielding a ball Wednesday. ... Gary Sanchez likely will begin a minor league rehab assignment this week and is expected to rejoin the Yankees sometime this week in Toronto. ... Ford played first base, with DJ LeMahieu getting a rest after returning Friday from a sore groin. Edwin Encarnacion (broken right wrist) and Luke Voit (sports hernia) are still sidelined. LeMahieu entered at second base for Gleyber Torres in the eighth who might have escaped the injury epidemic when he suffered what manager Aaron Boone called a “core issue” and underwent tests at a hospital. But his father, tweeted his son was fine and was headed to Baltimore with the team. Thank you God. Yankee pitching has seemed to right the ship just a bit, but J.A. Happ’s latest mediocre outing again hinted at the potential disaster looming from Brian Cashman’s reluctance to upgrade the rotation before the trade deadline. Happ couldn’t make it out of the 5th. In a 10 day stretch, the Yankee pitching gets beat up, including losing 3 of 4 routs in Fenway, 4 more key players go down with injury (Hicks, Voit, Encarnacion and LeMahieu), and yet the Yanks keep their collective chins up How much character, how much adversity overcome, does one sports team need? The Yankees seem determined to find out.
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Mike
8/6/2019 11:08:16 am
Here come the Mets
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Randy
8/6/2019 05:24:16 pm
That's because we have better pitching in the Yankees do.
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