Yankees need one win and they’re in

He has pitched at least six innings in 14 straight starts since July 3 and in 19 of 23 this season. The frustrating part on the side of the Yankees is that this occurred against the guy who’s pretty much been appointed the starter for the Wild Card play-in game on Tuesday night. “But we need him now”.

“I don’t think we are necessarily trying to ruin hopes”, Betts said of spoiling Yankees’ chance for milestone. If you pace that out over 162 games, he’d end up with 25 home runs and 76 RBI. “We wanted to make that sure he felt good and he could go through all the things he had to go through”.

“You just watch him go out and compete and find ways to get it done and turn it up a notch when he has to, ” Girardi said. They took a 5-4 lead on designated hitter Alex Rodriguez’s 33rd home run with two outs in the sixth, but they squandered opportunities in the late innings.

“It is puzzling”, Girardi said of Shreve’s tumble. “I thought we swung the bats extremely well”. That’s how poorly they’re now playing.

It’s nice to see guys shake off their issues, get to the next pitch and work efficiently, but there’s a difference between working efficiently and working too quickly. If it’s not the struggling offense, it’s the starting pitching, or Dellin Betances giving up a big home run.

The game remained tied when the Yankees left the bases loaded and ran themselves out of the eighth. Andrew Bailey (0-1) gave up an RBI single to Deven Marrero with one out in the 11th. They’re limping toward the finish line and you can find any number of reasons to think their post-season stay will be short. “I think he’s had a very good second year”.

It was the third home run of the series for Betts and his second career multi-homer game. A win and they’re in.

It was Bradley’s idea to bunt, something Lovullo was against and tried to talk him out of.

But resilience has been the Yankees’ trademark this season and they flexed that in the fifth. On Monday night, Sox catcher Blake Swihart gave a few extra pizza to a homeless person in Manhattan and hit two home runs on Tuesday. “I didn’t want to take a chance hitting a hard groundball and rolling two“.

The left-hander allowed one run and three hits while fanning eight in six innings and not figuring in the decision of a 2-1 win August. 6.

NOT MOVING UP: Today’s games in Philadelphia and Baltimore were moved up because of the threat of bad weather. New York manager Joe Girardi said he was unaware of any plans to do the same with the Yankees’ series finale Thursday.

DREW BEING EVALUATED: Stephen Drew was in Pittsburgh on Wednesday visiting with a concussion specialist.

“Eovaldi has made only four relief appearances in 110 major-league games, all coming during his rookie year in 2011″. 3B Pablo Sandoval (pneumonia) has not played since September 20.