The Yankees won this game with PASSION — and the home run bats of DJ LeMahieu, Didi Gregorius, and Gleyber Torres (who hit 2 home runs), some decent staring pitching from James Paxton, and another excellent performance by the bullpen.
Paxton
Paxton had his usual horrible 1st inning — walk, double, single for 2 runs, walk — but then settled down and pitched through the 5th. He got the first two outs of the 5th, but then ran into trouble again — double, walk, single, single — for 2 Cleveland runs and a tie game at 4-4.
What was interesting about that 5th inning double, walk, single, single — was that it came against the Indians’ top of the order — SS Francisco Lindor, leftfielder Oscar Mercado, 1st baseman Carlos Santana, and rightfielder Yasiel Puig — the 3rd time they saw Paxton. Katie Sharp pointed out that “opponents vs Paxton 3rd time thru order entering today: .341/.402/.591.”
Yankee Passion
Aaron Boone felt he was squeezed by the ump in that inning, and had he not — would have pitched longer in the game. This boiled over in the 6th, when Cameron Maybin was called out on strikes — Boone was tossed from the game for getting on the umpire from the dugout; shortly afterwards, Brett Gardner and CC Sabathia were tossed too.
Several questionable ejections in today's Yankees game. pic.twitter.com/5HgjA1z4S4
— YES Network (@YESNetwork) August 17, 2019
Jomboy did a great job reading lips as usual.
Aaron Boone, Brett Gardner, and CC Sabathia get ejected, a breakdown pic.twitter.com/oaUUv4qIDJ
— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) August 17, 2019
Gardner was thrown out for banging the ceiling of the dugout again with his bat, same as a few games ago. Boone had this to say about the Yankee Passion and the missed calls by the home plate up — a AAA umpire recently called up — after the game:
"There's an edge that we are playing with right now." – Aaron Boone#YANKSonYES pic.twitter.com/knBNxfiw7I
— YES Network (@YESNetwork) August 17, 2019
Yankee Bats
In between all of that, the Yankee bats did the talking. Mike Tauchman singled in a run in the 2nd, and DJ LeMahieu singled in Thairo Estrada in the 3rd to tie the score (and wen to 2nd on a throwing error by leftfielder Oscar Mercado). Didi Gregorius hit a majestic homerun to lead off the 4th, and Gleyber Torres followed with a homer to give the Yanks a 4-2 lead.
After Cleveland tied it in the top of the 5th, DJ LeMahieu immediately put the Yanks back on top 5-4 with a homer in the bottom of the 5th, and Gleyber Torres gave the Yanks an insurance run in the 6th with a homer to make it 6-4.
Machine for the lead 🤖 pic.twitter.com/709u5hbCzb
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) August 17, 2019
Gleyber's 7th multi-homer game of the year leads the Majors.
Gleyber's 29th homer of the season leads the team.
Gleyber is good. pic.twitter.com/F9cFtLti5x— New York Yankees (@Yankees) August 17, 2019
Adam Ottavino and Tommy Kahnle pitched shutout innings. But Zack Britton allowed a double, single and run on a wild pitch to lead off the 8th, making it 6-5. He got a groundout and double play to end the inning.
Aroldis Chapman pitched a rare 1-2-3 9th for the save.
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