

Beeks has opened six games with a 3.38 ERA and 12:5 strikeout to walk ratio in 10.2 innings while Yarbrough has made 13 appearances (eight starts), going 0-7 with a 5.08 ERA (73 ERA+), 4.81 FIP, and 40 strikeouts in 56.2 innings. Beeks is a hard-throwing lefty with a mid-90s fastball and low-90s changeup that both fly pretty straight while Yarbrough is a soft-tossing lefty who won’t touch 90 and relies on the movement of his four pitch mix - cutter, curveball, changeup, and sinker - to induce weak contact. The Rays have liked to deploy this tandem due to the varied looks between the two pitchers. It looks like Jalen Beeks will open this game, followed by Ryan Yarbrough covering the bulk of the innings. In 23 starts, Cole is 9-4 with a 3.38 ERA (114 ERA+), 3.25 FIP, and AL-leading 178 strikeouts in 138.1 innings. He’s been nails against Tampa Bay this year, allowing just two runs across three starts totaling 19.1 innings while striking out 29, and sports a 31.7 percent K-BB% in ten starts against the Rays as a Yankee. Even though he has struggled with the big inning more than any other ace around the league, he’s still the man you want on the mound in a must-win contest, particularly against the Rays. Gerrit Cole is just the man to set the right tone for the Yankees in this series. The two-time defending AL East champs have been derailed by injuries and have only been able to truly hang around in the Wild Card mix for most of 2022, but if they can find a way to sweep the scuffling Yankees, they would move to within eight games of first place for the first time since June 10th. New York requires a reversal of these trends if they’re to have success in the three-game set against the Rays starting tonight.

The offense is bordering on nonexistent while the bullpen (read: Clay Holmes) has blown their fair share of games. After a disastrous road trip, they are now losers of 10 of their last 13.
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Yankees: RHP Domingo Germán (1-2, 4.45) opens the Subway Series at home on Monday night against Mets RHP Max Scherzer (9-2, 2.15), who is going for his 200th career win.The Yankees limp back to the Bronx a beaten and bedraggled bunch. … LHP Scott Effross (shoulder stiffness) was unavailable.īlue Jays: open a three-game series in Boston Tuesday. … RHP Albert Abreu (right elbow inflammation) was placed on the IL and RHP Luke Bard had his contract purchased from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. … LHP Zack Britton (left elbow) threw 18 pitches in a bullpen session Saturday at the team’s spring training complex in Florida. … RHP Clay Holmes (back) threw 10 pitches in a bullpen session, a day after playing catch for the first time since going on the IL Wednesday. Stanton will work out Monday afternoon in New York and face RHP Luis Severino (right lat strain) in live batting practice Tuesday but is unlikely to play in the Subway Series. Yankees: OF/DH Giancarlo Stanton (left Achilles tendinitis) went 0 for 3 as the DH in his first rehab game for Double-A Somerset on Saturday night and was expected to get three to five at-bats Sunday. He singled as a pinch-hitter in the seventh… LHP Tim Mayza (dislocated right shoulder) threw 10 pitches in his first rehab appearance for Triple-A Buffalo Friday. Mike Lanzillotta, the Blue Jays fan who caught Judge’s homer on May 3 in Toronto and gave it to 9-year-old Derek Rodriguez, watched the game from the Judge’s Chambers in right field.īlue Jays: OF/DH George Springer didn’t start for the third straight game after fouling a ball off his knee while going 5 for 5 in Thursday. Manoah allowed two runs, one of them earned, and four hits in six innings. New York starter Nestor Cortes allowed one run and three hits in six innings. Lou Trivino (2-7) got the final seven outs. Whit Merrifield hit a bizarre home run in the Toronto fourth on a ball that twice bounced on the fence before going over. and DJ LeMahieu hit a go-ahead RBI single in the fourth. 320 with Kansas City.Īnthony Rizzo scored on a throwing error by Toronto left fielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr in the first. “The start he hasn’t been great personally a lot worse than obviously I wanted to be,” said Benintendi, who is batting. Benintendi’s drive also occurred a day he struggled to field Alejandro Kirk’s two-run double to left field in Toronto’s four-run fifth on Saturday.
