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Brett Gardner’s clutch bloop hit saves Yankees from brutal loss
BALTIMORE — On the verge of a crushing loss Wednesday, the Yankees instead turned to Tyler Wade and Brett Gardner in the top of the ninth to come back and beat the Orioles.
Gardner’s two-run single in the top of the ninth gave the Yankees the lead, and they held on in the bottom of the inning to beat Baltimore, 4-3, at Camden Yards and keep pace in the AL wild-card race.
Aroldis Chapman, pitching for a third straight day, retired the side in order in the bottom of the inning, as the Yankees won their third in a row after dropping eight of nine.
It allowed the Yankees to remain tied atop the wild-card standings with the Blue Jays and percentage points ahead of the Red Sox, both of whom also won Wednesday.
The Yankees were in deep trouble after another Gleyber Torres error prolonged the bottom of the eighth before Chad Green gave up a homer in a third consecutive appearance later in the inning to put the Yankees in a one-run hole.
But Baltimore fell apart in the ninth.
Luke Voit led off with a walk against Tyler Wells and was replaced by pinch-runner Wade. Torres then singled, sending Wade to second.
Gary Sanchez flied out to center, and with Gardner at the plate, the Yankees pulled off a double steal — as Wade beat the throw to third and Torres got to second.
Aaron Boone praised Wade’s “special” steal of third, noting Wells is quick to the plate, Austin Wynns is a strong-armed catcher and the Orioles were trying to keep Wade close.
It forced Baltimore to bring the infield in and as the skies opened up, Gardner lofted a single to center to drive in both runners.
“That’s the guy you want up,’’ Wade said. “His heartbeat is really slow and he came through tonight.”
“I fouled off some tough pitches and was able to float a changeup into no man’s land, thank goodness,’’ Gardner said.
The rally bailed out the struggling Green and Torres, who both had ugly eighth innings.
Green came on in the seventh with the Yankees holding a one-run lead and got the final two outs.
In the eighth, Green gave up a leadoff single to Wynns, then got Cedric Mullins to hit a liner to Torres at second.
Torres dropped it, but instead of getting the force at second, inexplicably threw to first for the out — allowing Wynns to get to second — just adding to Torres’ bad run in the field that could wind up ending his time in The Bronx.
Green came back to strike out Ryan Mountcastle and got ahead of Hays 0-2 before Hays took him deep, giving Baltimore a 3-2 lead — briefly wasting an outstanding performance from Nestor Cortes Jr., who gave up just one run and struck out a career-high 11 in 6 ¹/₃ innings.
The Yankees were also victims of some bad luck.
Sanchez nearly gave the Yankees a 2-0 lead in the top of the second. After Torres walked with two outs, Sanchez came up and blasted a shot deep to center off that seemed to be a sure two-run homer, but Mullins made an incredible leaping catch at the wall to rob the Yankees’ catcher — leaving both teams in disbelief.
The Yankees broke through against Baltimore lefty John Means in the third.
Gardner led off with a single and Gio Urshela followed with his 12th homer of the season and first since July 4.
Cortes rolled early, at one point retiring eight in a row before Pat Valaika singled with one out in the fifth. Cortes, though, got some help from Urshela later in the inning.
Urshela, at shortstop with Torres having been shifted back to second, made a terrific diving play to his right on a low liner from Wynns to end the inning.
Cortes looked overpowering — or as overpowering as a pitcher can be when topping out at 93 mph — having allowed just two hits as he headed into the sixth.
“We’re down to the wire now,’’ Boone s aid. “We’re in a battle with a little over two weeks to go.”
Why Yankees’ Aaron Boone flipped out on umpire, Brett Gardner’s resurgence | 6 observations
KANSAS CITY — Upon reflection, Aaron Boone would have liked to have been a bit calmer. But he didn’t think he was wrong, necessarily.
The Yankees manager lamented what he called a “bad rule” that led to him getting ejected in Monday’s 8-6, 11-inning win over the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium.
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Boone got heated with plate umpire Pat Hoberg when he called a balk on reliever Jonathan Loaisiga in the seventh inning. That allowed Emmanuel Rivera, who had just stolen second base, to move to third base with the Yankees clinging to a 2-1 lead. Loaisiga, after taking signals from catcher Kyle Higashioka, stepped off the rubber, but Hoberg ruled that Loaisiga had made a pitching move before stepping off.
Technically, that’s a balk, but the intent of balk calls are to stop pitchers from deceiving batters, and there was no deception involved. YES analyst David Cone, a former pitcher, told viewers that he agreed with Boone — it’s a bad rule.
“I just felt like he rolled right into his step-off and it’s just such a bad rule that that’s a balk,” Boone told reporters. “I just felt like as he started up, he went into his step-off. I didn’t even see it on replay. It’s hard to pull up anything here. You’re watching everything on a delay. I was a little frustrated with a call the inning before [when Aaron Boone was called out at the plate even though replays seemed to indicate he was safe], and I just think it spilled over. Probably something I shouldn’t have done.”
The ejection was Boone’s 15th of his career his fourth this season. Hoberg also gave Boone his first managerial ejection in 2018.
“He started up and went into his step-off, which absolutely should be OK, but I just thought it was a little quick because he went into his step-off,” Boone said. “But, again, I haven’t see a replay yet.”
Here are five more Yankees observations:
Brett Gardner heating up: With a his 2-for-3 performance on Monday night, Gardner is hitting .282 over his last 18 games — lifting his average from .191 to .207. “I feel good,” Gardner said. “My typical patient at-bats, seeing a lot of pitches, trying to make pitchers work. I feel like I’ve been taking some better swings. Just continuing to work, continuing to try and do things to help the team win and still manage to get on base via the walk even when I’m not swinging. Just continue to battle up there.”
Interesting Luis Severino twist: The Yankees said Luis Severino will make perhaps his last rehab start Friday at Double-A Somerset. If they activate him afterward, a regular five-day schedule would set up Severino against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 18. Wouldn’t that be interesting? Severino hasn’t pitched in the majors since the 2019 playoffs, and he’d be thrown directly into Yankees-Red Sox.
Making history: With their four blown saves on Monday, the Yankees matched the most in a game since 1901, joining the Astros’ four blown saves on Sept. 28, 1995 at the Cubs (11 innings).
Smoked: Giancarlo Stanton’s double play in the first inning Monday was hit at 122.2 mph, matching the hardest-hit ball in play since 2015. It also matched his own 122.2-mph single in 2017. Stanton is responsible for each of the last nine balls put in play at an exit velocity of 120 mph or faster, a streak that dates back to July 8, 2018.
Up in the air: The Yankees will start Nestor Cortes on Tuesday against the Royals but don’t have a starting pitcher listed for Wednesday. So, that could mean yet another bullpen day. The Yankees won a bullpen game when Wandy Peralta was the opener on Friday. The Yankees need length from Cortes on Tuesday. He threw 86 pitches in his last start — his season-high.
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