When the Yankees were in their terrible-mode in May, the Blue Jays knocked them around up in Toronto during a brief two-game stint, this time the Yankees were kind enough to return the favor. Reality has set in for the Jays since May and they came in at the bottom of the AL East pile while the Yankees are sitting pretty as perhaps the best team in baseball.
Phil Hughes was scheduled to match-up against Toronto's Henderson Alvarez and it had the makings of a homerun derby with players like Bautista, Cano, Granderson, and Teixeira lurking around, but the game was pitched rather tight for most of the way. Russell Martin got the Yanks on the board early with a 2nd inning homerun over the right-field wall. Perhaps his game winning hit from last Friday is getting his dead bat going. The Yanks would add another in the 3rd from a Robinson Cano double that plated A-Rod to make it 2-0 Yanks. The Blue Jays chipped their way back and used a solo homer and an RBI double to tie the score 2-2, but overall Hughes was solid, going 7 inning and only giving up the 2 runs while striking out 4 hitters. The Yankees squandered bases loaded opportunities early in the game, but were given another chance in the bottom of the 8th to do something with it. Raul Ibanez came to the plate with the bags full and Jason Frasor on the mound. After working the count to 3-1, Frasor was forced to throw Ibanez a fastball and Raul deposited it over the right-field wall for a grand slam which blew the game open at 6-2. Although an error allowed the Jays to rally a little in the 9th to make it a 6-3 game, Girardi didn't hesitate to then bring in Rafael Soriano to finish it off for his 23rd save.
The Yankees had been rolling without their number one starter over the past few weeks, and now it was the big guy's chance to get back into the action and add to the fun. On the 15-DL for the first time since 2006 with a strain ab muscle (which is kind of difficult when having a big belly), CC was slated to keep the Blue Jays in the basement. He would have some help before the game even started when it was announced that Toronto homerun machine Jose Bautista would be placed on the 15-Day for a wrist injury from the night before. Sabathia would take the news and run with it, posting 6 shutout innings with 6 strikeouts that earned him his 10th win of the season. Andruw Jones put this one away in the 3rd inning with a 3-run homerun to left-field off of Brett Cecil. The Yankees added three more runs in the 7th to make it 6-0, and Chad Qualls (silly head) allowed one Blue Jay run in the 8th that broke the shutout, but it ended in an easy 6-1 Yankee win. There was some negative news that Brett Gardner suffered yet another set back from returning this season, his one millionth set back during 2012, but seeing Yankee left fielders Andruw Jones and Raul Ibanez keep knocking out homeruns, the team is getting along just fine without him.
With the Blue Jays about as dejected as possible from getting bulldozed the two previous nights, they tossed up the white flag early in the final game, falling behind 4-0 in the very first inning behind the poor starting pitching of lefty Ricky Romero. Mark Teixeira hit his 19th homer of the season batting right-handed that had the Yanks on top of Toronto 3-0, and then Andruw Jones singled in Cano to top off the 4-run inning. That was all Hiroki Kuroda needed as they steamrolled over the Jays hitters by going 7 innings and only allowing 4 hits while striking out 5. The Yanks had poked more runs in during the 4th and 6th innings, and after the top of the 7th when leading 6-0, the skies above Yankee Stadium opened up and rained down hard. The forecast said rain for the next few hours, so with the fact the Yanks were up 6-0 in the 7th and the Blue Jays looked dead, the umpires called the game in the Yanks favor to complete the sweep.
It's west coast time again, after the game the Yankees backed their bags and headed to the airport for a little trip to Oakland where the Yanks have already swept the A's there this season, looking for another.....
Phil Hughes was scheduled to match-up against Toronto's Henderson Alvarez and it had the makings of a homerun derby with players like Bautista, Cano, Granderson, and Teixeira lurking around, but the game was pitched rather tight for most of the way. Russell Martin got the Yanks on the board early with a 2nd inning homerun over the right-field wall. Perhaps his game winning hit from last Friday is getting his dead bat going. The Yanks would add another in the 3rd from a Robinson Cano double that plated A-Rod to make it 2-0 Yanks. The Blue Jays chipped their way back and used a solo homer and an RBI double to tie the score 2-2, but overall Hughes was solid, going 7 inning and only giving up the 2 runs while striking out 4 hitters. The Yankees squandered bases loaded opportunities early in the game, but were given another chance in the bottom of the 8th to do something with it. Raul Ibanez came to the plate with the bags full and Jason Frasor on the mound. After working the count to 3-1, Frasor was forced to throw Ibanez a fastball and Raul deposited it over the right-field wall for a grand slam which blew the game open at 6-2. Although an error allowed the Jays to rally a little in the 9th to make it a 6-3 game, Girardi didn't hesitate to then bring in Rafael Soriano to finish it off for his 23rd save.
The Yankees had been rolling without their number one starter over the past few weeks, and now it was the big guy's chance to get back into the action and add to the fun. On the 15-DL for the first time since 2006 with a strain ab muscle (which is kind of difficult when having a big belly), CC was slated to keep the Blue Jays in the basement. He would have some help before the game even started when it was announced that Toronto homerun machine Jose Bautista would be placed on the 15-Day for a wrist injury from the night before. Sabathia would take the news and run with it, posting 6 shutout innings with 6 strikeouts that earned him his 10th win of the season. Andruw Jones put this one away in the 3rd inning with a 3-run homerun to left-field off of Brett Cecil. The Yankees added three more runs in the 7th to make it 6-0, and Chad Qualls (silly head) allowed one Blue Jay run in the 8th that broke the shutout, but it ended in an easy 6-1 Yankee win. There was some negative news that Brett Gardner suffered yet another set back from returning this season, his one millionth set back during 2012, but seeing Yankee left fielders Andruw Jones and Raul Ibanez keep knocking out homeruns, the team is getting along just fine without him.
With the Blue Jays about as dejected as possible from getting bulldozed the two previous nights, they tossed up the white flag early in the final game, falling behind 4-0 in the very first inning behind the poor starting pitching of lefty Ricky Romero. Mark Teixeira hit his 19th homer of the season batting right-handed that had the Yanks on top of Toronto 3-0, and then Andruw Jones singled in Cano to top off the 4-run inning. That was all Hiroki Kuroda needed as they steamrolled over the Jays hitters by going 7 innings and only allowing 4 hits while striking out 5. The Yanks had poked more runs in during the 4th and 6th innings, and after the top of the 7th when leading 6-0, the skies above Yankee Stadium opened up and rained down hard. The forecast said rain for the next few hours, so with the fact the Yanks were up 6-0 in the 7th and the Blue Jays looked dead, the umpires called the game in the Yanks favor to complete the sweep.
It's west coast time again, after the game the Yankees backed their bags and headed to the airport for a little trip to Oakland where the Yanks have already swept the A's there this season, looking for another.....
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