Just a little bit more dramatic effect into it," Cortes said. 'I’m supposed to make that play 100% of the time. He leaned back and made a one-hop throw to first baseman Anthony Rizzo, who scooped the ball for the out. Falling off the third-base side of the mound, Cortes extended his glove hand to snag the ball as he hit the mound with his head toward first. Giancarlo Stanton hit a two-run, opposite-field homer to right in the first off 2020 AL Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber, Stanton's 10th homer in 20 postseason games.Ĭleveland tied the score against All-Star Nestor Cortes when Andrés Giménez had an RBI single in the fourth and Amed Rosario homered into the Yankees bullpen in the fifth.Ĭortes saved two runs in the fourth with an acrobatic leap and throw to first from a sitting position on Myles Straw’s two-out, one-hop smash.
WHEN WAS THE LAST LEAP YEAR SERIES
Shadows crept across the field from the first-base side in the middle innings on a cloudless afternoon, reminiscent of so many World Series games at old Yankee Stadium in the 1940s and ’50s. in the first early afternoon postseason start in the Bronx since Game 2 of the 2006 Division Series against Detroit. “Great hitters go 0-for on a given day.”įirst pitch was at 1:08 p.m. “It’s the Bronx, man,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. You’re swinging at stuff that you usually don’t.”įresh off setting the AL home run record with 62, he was booed by some fans in the sellout crowd of 47,355 after whiffing against Stephan in the seventh. “When you’re a little late, you’re missing pitches that you usually doing some damage on. He is 2 for 37 with 27 strikeouts against Cleveland in three playoff series, including all four of his four-strikeout postseason games. Judge went 0 for 5 with four strikeouts and dropped to 0 for 8 with seven strikeouts and a walk in the series. They got nasty stuff down there," Yankees slugger Aaron Judge said. “Good starting rotation, a great bullpen. There is no travel day because a rainout Thursday had pushed Game 2 back a day. Game 3 will be at Cleveland on Saturday night. If it’s a hard-hit single, double, whatever the case it, we just try to hustle, try to make things happen on the field, try to put pressure on the defense." “We just try find a way on base,” Naylor said. Cleveland, 29th among the 30 big league teams in home runs, stopped a six-game postseason losing streak to the Yankees, Winner Emmanuel Clase pitched 2 1/3 innings, his most in the major leagues, and combined with Trevor Stephan and James Karinchak for 4 1/3 innings of one-hit relief. The victory evened the best-of-five AL Division Series at one game apiece. “It’s not an easy way to win but it doesn’t mean you can’t,” Guardians manager Terry Francona said after Cleveland overcame a two-run deficit to beat the New York Yankees 4-2 Friday.
Oscar Gonzalez drove him in with the tiebreaking run on an even shorter opposite-field flare to right, then scored on Josh Naylor's double, the only hard-hit ball of the inning. José Ramírez hustled to reach third base leading off the 10th inning with a popup that dropped in left field, 200 feet from home plate.
NEW YORK (AP) - Little hits turn into big wins for the Cleveland Guardians.
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