Castro’s walkoff homer leads Yankees to 9-8 win over Rockies

Sabathia, who had allowed just four earned runs total over his previous seven starts, gave up five in 4 1/3 innings Wednesday.

Sabathia rolled his right ankle twice in the game and it was bad enough to need X-rays, which turned up negative.

“I thought he was struggling today, so once he turned his ankle, the back of my mind is thinking, ‘Is the ankle part of it?’ And I just decided to make the change”, Girardi said.

Two hours before Tuesday night’s 8-4 loss to the Colorado Rockies, Cashman tried to explain how NY would approach the July 31 trade deadline.

Arenado got three hits and drove in three runs, giving him an NL-leading 60 RBIs. “Any time you twist your ankle it hurts”. “Hopefully he makes his next start”.

Even including today’s poor outing, Sabathia has been a revitalized pitcher since suddenly leaving the team last fall to undergo treatment for alcoholism. “That’s awesome”, said Sabathia, who was in the clubhouse when Castro homered. “To put together long streaks, you have to be pitching really well; when we won five or six in a row, everyone had a good turn, and we’re struggling with that right now”. They’ve now assured themselves of losing the season series to Colorado – they’re down 3-0 with one game left – and will have to wait until at least Friday and Saturday to climb back to and above.500, respectively. Anthony Swarzak gave up two runs in his inning of work, Dellin Betances pitched a scoreless seventh, Andrew Miller pitched a scoreless eighth and Chapman pitched a scoreless ninth. “I’ve never had great control, but this, I didn’t know where this was going”. “I’ve got to be ready for whatever situation it is now”. “We gotta check the videos, see what I’m doing and go from there”. “I just decided to make the change”.

“I think I had a little bit on the sinker but not as much on the curveball, and it’s frustrating”, Nova added. “I probably would’ve drew it up differently but it worked”.

Colorado Rockies manager Walt Weiss, left, and New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi lay a rainbow-colored wreath across home plate during a ceremony remembering the victims of the Orlando shootings, before a baseball game Tuesday, June 21, 2016, in New York. Beltran’s 19th homer of the season matched his total for all of previous year.

Before the dramatics of the ninth, the Yankees left the bases loaded in the seventh against Miguel Castro after tying the game on a three-run home run Carlos Beltran and an RBI single by Gregorius. Beltran said after the game that he believed his success this season can be attributed to his consistency at the plate and his good fortunate in avoiding injury.

Shane Robinson sprinted up Tal’s Hill to grab it, but it sailed just out of his reach before Robinson crashed into the padded wall, allowing Springer to score and make it 2-1.

Blackmon began the hit parade by sending a drive high off the foul pole in right field, then got his 10th homer in the fourth. “I wanted to leave it all out there and grind through it, but it wasn’t working”. “I’m healthy and I’ve been having a good first half”.