Domingo German engineered another Yankee victory, pitching shutout ball until the 6th and the Yankee offense gave him an early 5-0 and then 8-0 lead, en route to this Saturday evening rout of the Orioles, 8-2 in Baltimore on a beautiful, warm May evening.
This was a night where Yankee fans who are also Knick fans were furiously refreshing the browser on their cell phone to check the score of the Milwaukee-Miami game to see if Milwaukee could win to give the Knicks control of their own destiny to take the 4th playoff seed — and Milwaukee did win just as the Yankee game was coming to a close.
1. German Terrific Again
Domingo German was terrific again, a joy to watch as his ball moves so much and he is in command of the strike zone, motoring thru lineups; pitching to easy contact.
“I thought he was good,” said manager Aaron Boone afterwards. “The couple of times he did get into a little bit of trouble, he made a really big pitch. A couple of really nice double plays behind him. I thought he did a really good job; was on the attack, was pitch efficient for the most part, and had another strong outing.”
German finished with 6 innings, 4 hits, 1 run, 6 K’s, 2 walks to improve his record to 3-2 3.62.
2. Yanks Jump On Top In Top of 1st
Before Domingo German even took the mound he had a 3-0 Lead. DJ LeMahieu led off with a walk against Baltimore starter Jorge Lopez. Then Luke Voit — in his second game back from the surgery to repair the partially torn meniscus of his right knee that kept him out all of April — singled, and Aaron Judge walked to load the bases with nobody out. A passed ball by catcher Chance Sisco scored a run and then Gary Sanchez singled to center to score two and make it 3-0 NY.
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— New York Yankees (@Yankees) May 15, 2021
3. Judge Blast
Aaron Judge briefly tied for the American League lead in homeruns with 11, on a 2-run blast in the top of the 2nd with DJ LeMahieu aboard to make it 5-0 Yankees.
BAJ Blast pic.twitter.com/JQZFC3zEbb
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) May 15, 2021
Mitch Haniger hit his 12th homerun later in the evening to take over full possession of the AL homerun lead; Judge ended the evening tied for 2nd again.
Judge went 2-4 and is now sports an 11-23-.289 (.389 OBP) line.
4. Voit Adds to the Fun
Luke Voit added to the fun in the top of the 6th — after a Brett Gardner single, Miguel Andujar single, and Tyler Wade single loaded the bases with 1 out, a balk by Wells scored a run to make it 6-0 NY, and Luke Voit singled in two to make it 8-0 NY — the rout was on.
Luke Voit ropes one to left and tacks on 2 more runs for the Yanks!
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— YES Network (@YESNetwork) May 16, 2021
5. Yank Bullpen Does It’s Job
Lucas Luetge pitched a shutout 7th and Justin Wilson pitched a shutout 8th (good news!). Luis Cessa allowed two singles and an unearned run in the 9th (error by Gio Urshela) but got the final out.
Etcetera
- Miguel Andujar went 1-4 and made a catch in left field.
- Gio Urshela went 2-5 and is now batting .303 (.349 OBP).
- Tyler Wade went 3-5 and is batting .316 (.381 OBP) after 19 at bats.
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