Alex Rodriguez homers, however Indians hold on to edge Yankees Three-2, Joe

Michael Brantley had 2 hit’s and 2 rbi and Jose Ramirez had 3 hit’s and 3 run’s. New York RHP Michael Pineda (right forearm) will throw approximately 65 pitches in a rehab start for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Friday; and, if it goes well, he could return next week….

Yankees manager Joe Girardi got into a heated war of words with umpire Dan Iassogna during Thursday’s game versus Cleveland, a 3-2 loss for New York. Ultimately, it took Danny Salazar 33 pitches just to get through the first inning.

“Disappointing. You’ve 55,000 people and, my goodness, if anything you’d be overamped, but he came out and his velocity wasn’t real good and they took advantage of it”, Francona said. “We’ve talked about just in the short period he’s been here how much we’re pulling for him, myself included, and he pitched his fanny off tonight”.

CC Sabathia (4-9, 5.24 ERA) saw his winless streak extended to six outings with a no-decision against Minnesota on Tuesday, yielding four runs on five hits in 6 2/3 innings. The Yankees have asked that fans planning on attending the game be in their seats by noon ET.

“I think for the most part it was moving to expand the zone to lefties”, said Tomlin, who got 23 called strikes.

Texas entered play 1 games behind the Los Angeles Angels for the second wild-card spot, while the Tigers were three games further back. The Yankees scored their first run in the third inning, as Tribe catcher Yan Gomes fired a high throw to second base on a successful Brett Gardner steal attempt. Current score is 1-3.

“Thank you for the baby”, Santana said.

Making his fourth career start, the 21-year-old Severino (1-2) gave up a one-out homer in the first to fellow rookie Francisco Lindor, but he yielded only two singles and four walks in the remainder of his six gritty innings.

From his vantage point, Lindor couldn’t tell because he was running.

For the first time in his brief Major League career, Yankees’ prospect Luis Severino actually got some run support.

“I think since he’s joined the team he’s been able to go out there and show what he’s capable of”. Like his previous start against the Indians, the first few innings of Severino’s afternoon were a little shaky, though he later settled down. One out later, McCann – serving as the DH in place of rested Alex Rodriguez – blasted his 22nd into the right-field seats for a three-run inning. He pitched into the eighth inning and held them to one run last week at home. Girardi said Mitchell has stitches that need to be removed before he can pitch in a game.

Switching gears, the Indians come into this game with a win percentage of.