Yankees Escape Another Shaky Ninth In Win Over White Sox
CHICAGO — Nestor Cortes Jr. Tackled his work for six innings.
That wasn't a shock. The 36th-round pick of the Yankees in 2013, whom they twice lost in the Rule 5 draft from that point forward, has done that the entire season, regardless of whether beginning or alleviating.
The Yankees' warm up area, then again, of late has been a baseball adaptation of Russian roulette for Aaron Boone. So after Cortes left with a two-run lead, the last nine outs were everything except an obvious choice Sunday.
Stephen Ridings and Jonathan Loaisiga showed up as though they may take the Yankees home with a scoreless inning each, and after Luke Voit hit a two-run homer in the 10th, the evening looked as though it would do not have the dramatization that was such a lot of a piece of the series' initial two games.
Yet, approached to ensure a four-run lead in the 10th, Lucas Luetge wasn't sharp, and a lot of theater resulted before the Yankees could seal their 5-3 success over the White Sox before a sellout horde of 37,696 at Guaranteed Rate Field.
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A walk, a solitary and Zack Collins' one-out RBI twofold to right put sprinters on second and third. That raised Tim Anderson as the tying run, and Boone called for Wandy Peralta.
Anderson, whose two-run homer in the lower part of the 10th won Thursday's "Field of Dreams" game in Dyersville, Iowa, beat down an infield single to slice the Yankees' lead to two runs. Unexpectedly the triumphant run was at the plate — and similarly as out of nowhere, Cesar Hernandez grounded into a game-finishing 4-3 twofold play on the principal pitch.
"Huge series," Cortes said. "Coming into this, we knew where we were at and what we expected to do. I think we dealt with that."
The Yankees (65-52) went 1-for-15 with sprinters in scoring position and abandoned 14 yet won for the 24th time in the last 35 games. They are 2 1⁄2 games behind the Athletics and Red Sox, who are in a virtual tie for the trump card lead, and 5 1⁄2 games behind the AL East-driving Rays.
The Yankees, who have won 10 of their last 11 finished series, completed 5-1 this season against the AL Central-driving White Sox (68-50).
"Breathe out here briefly," Boone said. "[Then] returning home to begin a truly significant homestand."
It's a stretch of eight games that starts with Monday night's cosmetics game against the Angels and Tuesday's doubleheader against the Red Sox.
Cortes, with his collection of curves, sliders, changeups and high-80s fastballs coming at the plate from a wide range of arm points and conveyances intended to lose players, bewildered the White Sox. He acquired his first triumph of the period and brought his season ERA down to 2.55, permitting just Andrew Vaughn's performance homer with one out in the 6th and striking out seven.
"He's fantastic," said Voit, who went 3-for-5. "You simply don't see folks like that any longer. That is to say, take a gander at what we just confronted with Chicago, everybody in their warm up area tossing 100 and every one of their starters have very great stuff . . . He's shimmying, he's attempting to screw with your planning and everything. He's sorted it out, and he's nauseating."
After Rougned Odor hit a two-run homer and Brett Gardner added a RBI twofold in a three-run second, Vaughn's homer slice the Yankees' lead to 3-1.
In the seventh,
Ridings gave a four-pitch walk however struck out special hitter Collins and got Anderson to ground into a 6-4-3 twofold play. 토토사이트 검증
After Ridings strolled Hernandez to begin the eighth, Loaisiga came on and resigned three straight. Voit's homer made it 5-1 in the 10th.
"I've truly felt like with this gathering there's a hidden certainty that has existed even in our most noticeably terrible of days this year," Boone said. "Possibly now and again, perhaps not as it should be. However, I do accept they generally accepted we planned to turn this around."