#Yankee shortstop 2015 series#

#Yankee shortstop 2015 series#

“… Not getting a win in either game right here, it’s a hard way to end the day.As a player, Crosetti was a two-time All-Star and eight-time World Series champion. “Long, tough day sums it up pretty well,” Baldelli said. “… I’m pretty disappointed in myself for not being able to do that.”Īnd the Twins, who clobbered Cole in their first meeting this season, knocking him around for seven runs in 2 1/3 innings in June, could do little against him Wednesday, collecting five hits and one run, a Correa solo homer. I wanted to get out there and be a little bit more efficient and stay in the game a lot longer than that,” Ryan said. But a 34-pitch first inning, which included a 13-pitch battle against leadoff hitter Aaron Hicks dashed those hopes. Kiner-Falefa played hero again for the Yankees in the second game, socking a grand slam in the fourth inning off Joe Ryan - it was just his third home run of the season and second in three games against the Twins.Īfter taxing their bullpen heavily in the first game - the Twins used six relievers, including their entire high-leverage group - Ryan was looking to go longer than the four innings he turned in Wednesday. There was a head-scratching send from Twins third-base coach Tommy Watkins in the 10th inning - one which came on a play that wasn’t even close enough for Gilberto Celestino to bother sliding.īut ultimately, after it all, after a hard-fought, 12 innings, former Twin (for a day) Isiah Kiner-Falefa tied the game up with a single up the middle off Trevor Megill and Cabrera finished it off. Paul native Louie Varland turned in a strong performance across 5 1/3 innings but eventually finished with a no-decision after Griffin Jax surrendered a game-tying home run in the sixth. And there was bad defense: the Twins committed four errors in the later innings. There was good defense: a sliding stop and strong throw from Carlos Correa to a stretching Luis Arraez at first base ended the ninth inning and sent the game to extras, and a 3-2-3 double play in the 11th inning helped keep it going. There was, Baldelli said, not a lot to get excited about in the second game, and in the first, there was a little bit of everything. On Wednesday, the Twins didn’t play well enough. They’re going to play you tough and you have to play well.” I think most teams in this league end up talking about those teams often, but I don’t think the Yankees are anything different than any other good team in this league. “I want to talk about our guys and how we find ways to win ballgames. Or the Astros or the Dodgers or any of those teams,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “I don’t want to be sitting here talking about how good the Yankees are anymore. The numbers in the Bronx are even worse: including the postseason, the Twins are 2-24 at Yankee Stadium since the beginning of the 2015 season.

Add in the playoffs and, well, it’s an even uglier record that Twins fans have no desire to revisit. The Twins are 37-98 (.274) against the Yankees since 2002. There was far less drama in the second game, when ace Gerrit Cole struck out 14 batters in 6 2/3 innings and the Yankees won 7-1.

Cleveland lost to the Royals but still moved two games ahead in the division, while the White Sox beat the Mariners and now are tied for second place with the Twins.Ī wild, back-and-forth 12-inning battle saw the Twins skirt in and out of trouble before a walk-off single from Oswaldo Cabrera sent them to a 5-4 loss in the first game. The Twins slipped further in the American League Central standings on Wednesday, losing a pair of two very different games to the Yankees. NEW YORK - The players come and go, but for whatever the reason, the results have remained the same: over the past two decades, no team has a better record against a team in their league than the Yankees do against the Twins.