BALTIMORE: The wins are all for the Yankees right now as they push toward October baseball.
With the Yanks ’impressive 4-3 win over the Orioles Wednesday night at Camden Yards, they improved to 82-64. This helped them keep pace in the American League Wild Card race with the Blue Jays (82-64) and Red Sox (83-65), who also won. The three rivals in the AL East are tied in the AL Wild Card standings, with only two beds on the court.
You couldn’t have written a better comeback for the Yanks at the top of the ninth inning. They fell by one run after right-hander Chad Green gave up a goal for the first time to Austin Hays halfway through the first inning. And New York had to face Tyler Wells, closer to Baltimore.
Luke Voit opened the entrance with a walk. He was then replaced by Tyler Wade, the pinch runner, who immediately moved into second place on a Gleyber Torres single.
After flying Gary Sanchez on the left, Brett Gardner came to the plate. At this point, Wade began to advance to third place, before taking a break for his 15th stolen base of the season. With O W receiver Austin Wynns throwing in third, Torres took the opportunity to slide into second place, thus putting both in goal position.
“This is one of the fastest adrenaline rushes you’ll have on a baseball field,” Wade said. “Especially when we go down one to the top of the ninth. You know, everyone is trying to keep you close and everyone knows you’re trying. ”
New York coach Aaron Boone remained fearful after the game discussing Wade’s robbery.
“I can’t stress the difficulty of stealing a match,” Boone said. “[Wells] he’s almost as fast as you’ll get, and he’s a good catcher with a left-hander. You have to trust yourself and trust your nerves. It was very, very special and set us up perfectly. “
After missing three consecutive pitches to keep the score at 1-2, Gardner came away with great success, throwing a single two-run block into the center left field to take a 4-3 lead.
“Viously, obviously, you don’t want to be in a situation where it’s the last inning and you go down one or two races,” Gardner said. “You want to be up there with the game on the line. I feel like I’ve had some pretty good bats lately and seen the ball well. [Wells] I advanced quite quickly and was able to float this change that threw me into no man’s land. Thank God.”
The Yankees sent Aroldis Chapman closer to protect the leadership. The left-hander pitched for the third day in a row, but Boone soon learned that Chapman was available and ready to record a save.
Chapman only needed eight pitches (seven of which were attacks) for a 1-2-3 entry, getting a couple of kicks and sealing the Yankees ’third straight win.
“Very good team offense there in that final inning to get it back,” Boone said.
Boone has stressed how crucial team victories are during this final stretch of the season, and that is what this victory meant. Home Néstor Cortes Jr. he fanned a maximum of 11 batters in his career while throwing 6 1/3 ball innings in one throw, Gio Urshela hit a two-run homer on the third and continued to settle on the short and New York met when he needed it. till late.
“I think our guys know what’s at stake here,” Gardner said. “Obviously, we are not happy with the necessary way of our season [has] up to this point. Wherever we are in the standings, we still have a great opportunity ahead. Right now it’s so important to take things in one game at a time. Really, one on the bat, one throw at a time, and you really try to slow down the game and run it. I thought we did pretty well tonight on both sides of the ball. “