El Barrio, New York - With the 4-0 Yankees loss to Toronto, the positive part of the event was the performance of Michael Pineda as the 5th starter. Thus the five-man rotation went through its first go-around with a 2-3 won-lost record.
RHP Micahel Pineda’s, in his Yankees debut, allowed just 1ER in 6.0IP in taking the loss (5H, 0BB, 5K) and it was his first Major League start since 9/21/11 w/ Seattle at Minnesota. CF
Center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury has shown his star quality and the catalyst he is; has recorded 3 hits per game for the second straight time this season. So far he is 6-for-16 with 3R, 2 doubles, 3BB and 3 stolen bases in 5 games.
Infielder Yangervis Solarte has multi-hit games in each of his first three career starts (4/3-5), becoming the first Yankee to accomplish the feat since Joe DiMaggio from 5/3-6/36 (also 3G) according to the Elias Sport Bureau. Solarte leads the Yankees this season in hits (7), doubles (3), extra-base hits (3), RBI (4), on-base percentage (.600), slugging percentage (.769) and OPS (1.369).
But the Yankees 7-9 batters have combined to bat .370 (20-for-54) with 8R, 6 doubles, 4RBI and 6BB this season. The glass is half full; half empty.
As it has been noted in the Yankees second straight victory 7-3, Tanaka had a few rough moments. Eventually, he settled down and put up zeros from the 3rd to the 7th inning. With the offense providing 7 runs on 16 hits, he got the team’s second victory of the young season; he became just the third pitcher in the last 15 seasons (since 2000) to strike out at least eight batters without allowing any walks in his Major League debut. Tanaka’s line: 7.0IP, 3R, 2ER, 0BB, 8K, 1HR (to ex-Yankee delivery man Melky Cabrera).
The Yankees first victory of the season had RHP Ivan Nova pitch just 5.2 innings, allowing 2ER (6H, 5BB, 1K, 1WP, 2HP) as the relievers (Warren, Kelley and Robertson) combined to toss 3.1 perfect IP (5K). It was a game Yankees 8-9 hitters (Solarte and Suzuki) had five of the team’s seven hits and scored all four Yankees runs.
In the second game of the season RHP Hiroki Kuroda started and took the loss, allowing 2ER in 6.0IP (3H, 1BB, 5K, 1HR). A quality start by today’s standards, but lacking run support. In the 4-2 defeat, Yankees pitchers allowed just four combined hits (two of which were solo HRs). Yankees batters on the other hand had one extra-base hit (Beltran double) and scored their only run on a double-play groundout in the seventh.
In the season opener C.C. Sabathia LHP CC Sabathia started and took the 6-2 loss to Houston, allowing 6ER in 6.0IP (8H, 1BB, 6K, 2HR). Seem as if Spring Training did not follow him into the season, but instead showed some of the deficiencies of the 2013 season. Maybe it was just a one-time case of a “Houston, we have a problem.”
He will pitch the final game of the 6 game road trip before the team opens at home next Monday. It would be a 13-game stretch to open the season. While that number is taboo for some, it wasn’t an issue to one…oh, never mind.
Wouldn’t you know, Yankees batters have not homered in their first five games of the season, but then again, in 5 games, neither has newly Seattle Mariner Robinson Cano.
Data Source: YankeesPressbox.com
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