It was a sloppy night for the Yanks in the mound and on the field, as they split their series with the Red Sox after Sunday's 11-6 loss.
Here are some takeaways...
- If there was a picture for “a bloop and a blast” in the dictionary, you’d see the first inning next to it. Aaron Judge reached on a single hit 65.6 mph. Two batters later, Giancarlo Stanton hit a two-run home run 114 mph.
In the third, All Star Jose Trevino lined a double down the left field line to give the Yanks a 3-0 lead, but was thrown out at second. But with a runner on third, Isiah Kiner-Falefa singled and made it a 4-0 game.
- However, no lead was safe with Jameson Taillon on the mound. In the second inning, he allowed a two-run home run to dead center to Franchy Cordero that cut the Yankee lead to 4-2. In the third, Barry Bonds – I mean, Matt Carpenter, hit another home run, this one for two runs, to get the lead right back up to four runs, but it still wasn’t enough. Taillon allowed a solo shot on an 0-2 with two outs to Christian Vazquez in the bottom half of the frame to make it a 6-3 game. In the fifth, Vazquez hit an RBI double, and J.D. Martinez tied the game with a two-run homer.
In his last seven starts, Taillon owns a 6.81 ERA, allowing 27 earned runs in 35.2 innings. In his last four, it’s 8.70 (20 ER/20.2 IP). His ERA has leapfrogged from 2.30 through his first 10 starts way up to 4.01 through 17.
- Aroldis Chapman entered the game in the sixth inning, marking his first high-leverage appearance since returning from the IL. Trevor Story blooped in a single just off the glove of DJ LeMahieu, and he walked Cordero and Rob Refsnyder to load the bases. He struck out Bobby Dalbec (who chased some bad pitches), but Jeter Downs blooped another one off LeMahieu’s glove, inexplicably, without the outfielders calling him off. A run scored, giving the Sox their first lead of the night.
- Miguel Castro entered in the seventh, and the Sox didn’t miss. After the first batter of the inning reached on a Kiner-Falefa error, Castro loaded the bases with a walk and a single. Story then cleared the bases with a double off the Green Monster, giving the Red Sox a 10-6 lead. Albert Abreu then came on, and committed a throwing error on a sac bunt, letting Story score from second to make it 11-6.
- The 11 runs allowed are the most allowed by the Yankees all season. The final score was also tied for their second-largest loss of the year - they lost by seven once, and five two other times before Sunday.
- Aaron Boone was ejected in the seventh inning for arguing balls and strikes to Stanton. It was his fourth ejection of the year.