Pitcher struck in face by Nunez line drive lands on disabled list

Ervin Santana gets the ball, and he’s 2-3 with a 5.66 ERA and 28 strikeouts this season. Sabathia was not at his best at Minnesota on July 25, when he served up five runs on six hits – two homers – in 5 2/3 innings without factoring in the decision.

A day after Yankees pitcher Bryan Mitchell took a line drive off the face, manager Joe Girardi said the rookie is doing well, considering it could have been much, much worse.

It was a short and painful night for Yankees rookie pitcher Bryan Mitchell.

But that hit was not the only mistake Nuñez made.

Yankees catcher Brian McCann told Marchand he’s glad it wasn’t anything fatal. The Twins couldn’t gain the momentum back, and failed to score a run over the final four innings.

Eduardo Nunez hit the liner that injured Mitchell in the second inning. They haven’t come up with anything that looks very practical as of yet.

The White Sox only managed a single run off Andrew Heaney after an attempted double-play was thwarted by an errant throw to first base.

The bottom of the 10th inning was one of the craziest innings this writer has ever seen. Beltre also hit a pair of RBI doubles in the Rangers’ fifth consecutive win, which leaves them just one game behind Baltimore for the second AL wild-card berth. Nunez said he had never hit a comebacker that resulted in such an injury. That’s probably two call-ups, but even that might not be enough if the only other available reliever is Wilson, who probably can’t give more than an inning. The run scored, the game was over, the Yankees won, but it turned out to be an anti-climactic victory after Nunez did some weird Nunez things.

“In high school, I wore one”, said Morgan Murphy, University of Saint Thomas senior softball pitcher, “but then when I came to college, I decided that I did not want to wear it anymore”.

Setting their bullpen up with another option to take on the powerful Blue Jays lineup, the New York Yankees recalled Mt. Juliet right-hander Caleb Cotham from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Saturday afternoon, designating left-hander Chris Capuano for assignment.

The game took another weird turn when Mark Teixeira fouled a ball off his leg in the sixth. We’ll let you know if there are any updates on Mitchell’s condition.

“I do not see why it would change the game”, said John Anderson, University of Minnesota Head Baseball Coach. “As a father or a mother anybody can relate to if you feel like you have to go and straighten something out for your child”.

Yankees Notes: Monday starts a season-long 10-game homestand.

Not only did the injury shock the fans and Yankee teammates but it shook Twins manager Paul Molitor. A former mainstay in the Mets’ rotation, this will be his first start vs. the Yankees since 2011.