New York Yankees Beat Mariners

There’s value in that. “I was just trying to be aggressive”. Only the Toronto Blue Jays scored more runs, and only the Houston Astros hit more homers.

He’s rested, and admitted Friday night that missing the entire 2014 season because of a suspension for performance enhancing drugs, was “very beneficial” for his body.

Royals 4, White Sox 2; White Sox 2, Royals 0: John Danks pitched four-hit ball into the seventh of the second game, and Chicago earned a split of a day-night doubleheader.

Chances are that any time either player is complimenting the other, it was a good night for the Yankees.

Montgomery fought his way through six innings, giving up the three runs on seven hits with three walks and nine strikeouts – all on swinging strikes – against the team he made his big league debut against on June 1 at Safeco Field. The infield defense was good and steady.

Alex Rodriguez broke a 3-all tie in the seventh inning Friday with his 19th home run, while Kyle Seager hit a solo homer and a two-run shot for the Mariners (41-49). Rodriguez has had a go-ahead RBI in each of the Yankees’ past four games.

With that in mind, Girardi said he’ll work to get Rodriguez “sporadic days off” as the season winds down. “He’s put me in a situation where I can help the team win”.

But Rodriguez did much more than that. In fact, he’s gone out of his way multiple times this season to talk about the positive impact of the DH job and the way extra rest has helped him.

“I was hoping that ball certainly went out”, Rodriguez said. “And I’ll do that”. In his career, Cano has posted a.318/.366/.518 second-half slash line to his.298/.346/.473 mark in the first half. He hasn’t fared as well against righties (.178), but that lefty-dominance is exactly what the Yankees envisioned when they re-signed Young to a one-year, $2.5 million deal last November. Seattle had won five in a row at Yankee Stadium, dating to 2013.

At first glance the Yankees look overmatched on Sunday, as they send out CC Sabathia to face Felix Hernandez, but there is a silver lining. “We’re going to continue to give him every opportunity to work through this for the foreseeable future”.

“Honestly not at all”, Young said. He’s still a long way from playing in games. Chris Young took a Mike Montgomery pitch over the left field wall to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead. “Usually I throw that pitch and it drops to the bottom of the zone”. “I felt good, but I lost a little bit of fastball command for bits and stretches of the game”. Miller got his 19th save.

Not in the visitors’ clubhouse at Yankee Stadium, and not anywhere else. He also was pretty sure the Mariners were unprepared for a pinch hitter, but Seattle stalled long enough to get Vidal Nuno ready for a left-on-left at-bat against Garrett Jones. Phillies starter Adam Morgan worked 6 1/3 innings and also yielded two runs and four hits. “And not intentionally. I don’t intentionally avoid looking”.

As always, the New York Yankees will leave you talking and will either leave you elated or pulling the hair out of your head in frustration over a questionable move. He scored when Jonathan Lucroy grounded into a double play off reliever Jared Hughes. “There really wasn’t an easy play for him tonight”.

“This ballpark obviously, the Yankees and everything, it’s got a lot of history to it, so it’s a cool place”, Seager said. Obviously it was the furthest thing from my mind today, but it was nice.