Bronx Bombers Bomb Woo & Mariners. NY 11 Seattle 2

September 18, 2024 paperbacklou 2024 0
Jasson Dominguez aka The Martian -- with his first homer of the year, making it a 7-1 game in the 5th.

The Bronx Bombers machine-gunned early and bombed late in bashing Bryan Woo, the young 24-year-old ace of the Mariners, in an 11-2 romp on a chilly Monday night in Seattle.

Woo entered with an 8-2 2.38 record, but NY scored 7 runs on him in 4.2 innings: Aaron Judge drove in the first 4 runs of the game with a 2-RBI double and a 2-RBI single, Juan Soto followed with a 2-RBI homer, and The Martian, Jasson Dominguez, hit a homer in the 5th to knock out Woo.

Austin Wells put the game away with a 3-RBI double in the 6th.

Meanwhile Luis Gil pitched 5 strong innings at the start to get the win, and Marcus Stroman got a 3-inning save.

Baltimore lost 10-0 to San Francisco earlier in the evening so the Yankee lead in the AL East increases to 4 games with 11 to go.

“We went out there and tried to get his best pitch, and that was the fastball,” said Juan Soto afterwards about the Yanks’ approach against Woo. “I think we did a great job of doing that, and going out there and making him make pitches.”

NY improves to 88-63; Seattle drops to 77-74, 3 games back of the Wild Card.

1. Judge Puts Yanks Up 2-0 in 1st

The Yanks got to work right away against Woo — Gleyber Torres leading off the game with an infield hit, Juan Soto doubling to center, and Aaron Judge ripping a 2-RBI double to left for a 2-0 Yankee lead.

2. Gil Good

Like his last start, it took Luis Gil an inning to find his rhythm, but after being on the ropes in the 1st inning he did and pitched 5 good innings for the win, showing moxie throughout.

  • Staked to the 2-0 lead, Gil hit Victor Robles leading off in the bottom of the 1st — and Robles charged the mound for a hug.

  • Gil then issued consecutive 1-out walks to load the bases. But he got Luke Raley to foul out to 3rd, and then inexplicably Robles tried to steal home on a 3-0 pitch to Justin Turner and was gunned out — Gil to Austin Wells — for the final out of the inning.

  • Gil was staked to a 4-0 lead by the bottom of the 2nd, and allowed a 1-out homer to Polanco — the only run he’d allow. He was helped in the 2nd by a terrific play up the middle by Gleyber Torres for the final out.

  • Gil pitched out of trouble in the 3rd — allowing a 1-out double, a walk, and a groundout to put runners on 2nd and 3rd with 2 outs in a 4-1 game — but he struck out Raley to end the threat.
  • By the 4th Gil was leading 6-1, and after allowing a leadoff double in the 4th, retired the next 3 batters with a strikeout, fly out, groundout to strand the runner at 2nd.
  • Staked to a 7-1 lead by the bottom of the 5th, Gil struck out the 1st batter, allowed a 1-out single, then got 2 groundouts to end his outing.

Gil’s line: 5 IP, 4 H, 1 run, 5 K’s, 3 walks — 91 pitches. He wins to go 14-6 3.14 and continues to be a leading candidate for AL Rookie of the Year (with his teammate Austin Wells).

3. Judge Puts Yanks Up 4-0 in 2nd

Meanwhile the Yanks continued to batter Bryan Woo. He struck out the first 2 batters of the top of the 2nd, but then Alex Verdugo and Gleyber Torres hit consecutive 2-out singles and Juan Soto walked to load the bases. Aaron Judge ripped a single to left plating 2 and it was 4-0 NY.

4. Soto Puts Yanks up 6-0 in 4th

Woo pitched a 1-2-3 inning in the 3rd, and struck out the first 2 batters of the 4th — but the Yanks got to him again with 2 outs: Gleyber Torres (3 hits on the day) hit a ground-rule double and Juan Soto hit a 410-foot homer to center for a 6-1 NY lead.

It was Soto’s 40th homer of the year and also his first one in Seattle — which gives him a homerun in every MLB ballpark — one of his goals.

5. The Martian Puts Yanks Up 7-1 in 5th

Jasson Dominguez — aka The Martian — hit his first homer of the season (after his early September callup) with a 414-foot bomb to center with 2 outs in the 5th and it was 7-1 NY. That knocked out Bryan Woo.

6. Wells Puts Yanks Up 10-1 in 6th

Seattle brought in A Voth to pitch — he got the last out of the 5th, but then in the 6th, Oswaldo Cabrera — playing shortstop to give Anthony Volpe a night off — led off with a single.

Voth got consecutive groundouts but with 2 outs, walked Juan Soto and Aaron Judge to load the bases. That brought up the Yankees’ other Rookie of the Year candidate, Austin Wells, and he blasted a double to the gap in right center, clearing the bases for 3 runs. NY 10 Seattle 1.

7. Mayza Pitches Shutout 6th

Lefty Tim Mayza came in and pitched a shutout 6th. He continues to do pretty well in NY and gives the Yanks another tough lefty (along with Tim Hill) out of the pen. Mayza has lowered his season’s ERA to 6.58; it was 8.03 when he came to NY from Toronto. He’s had a 4.20 ERA with NY, which would be much lower if he hadn’t allowed 3 runs in a relief appearance against Texas on Sept 4.

8. Oswaldo RBI in 8th

The Yanks tacked on a run in the top of the 9th, when Seattle centerfielder Julio Rodriguez (who had 4 hits in the game) dropped Jazz Chisholm Jr’s drive to center for an error — Chisholm going to 2nd base on the play. Oswaldo Cabrera then knocked him in with a 2-out single.

9. Stroman Pitches Last 3 for the Save

Meanwhile Marcus Stroman came in to pitch the 7th — and continued through the rest of the game — a 3-inning save. Stroman pitched around 2 singles for a shutout 7th, allowed a solo homer to Raley in the 8th to make it 10-2 at the time, and threw a shutout 9th, striking out last batter Randy Arozarena for the old ballgame.

The Boxscore

https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401570732

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