CLEVELAND – Marcus Thames admitted Friday afternoon that the Yankees were in a “foul play”.
But the hitting coach said they were “coming out of it.”
He certainly looked healthy in a 5–3 win over the Indians on Friday night in the progressive zone, hitting four homers in his most impressive performance of the season.
Giancarlo Stanton led off with two home runs – both lasers – and for the second straight night, the Yankees saved their opening pitcher with three runs in the first inning.
Like Domingo Jarman on Thursday, Jordan Montgomery struggled in the opening frame, and the Yankees found themselves in a quick zero hole.
The left-hander played three balls on the first three batsmen of the game, walking two of them.
With two on and one out, Frenmil Reyes made a double rip to Clint Frazier’s head for an RBI double, scoring Cesar Hernandez and sending Jose Ramirez to third.
After a trip to pitching coach Matt Blake, the Yankees brought the infield and Eddie Rogerio looked out to the right of the infield, ing Ramirez to give Cleveland a 2–0 lead.
At the time, Nick Nelson started warming up in the bullpen.
Former Met Embedded Rosario missed a single with a 3–0 single.
As he did on Thursday, the Yankees offense almost immediately got their starter off the hook.
This time, Aaron Hicks bounced back with a one-out homer from the right.
Gary Sanchez singled in the center, and after Frazier ran deep into center, Rugenaud Odor – whose two-run single gave the Yankees an edge on Thursday – turned to right to tie the game.
Even as a German, Montgomery swung things around, retiring 11 of 12 after Rosario’s RBI single in the first.
Stanton then put the Yankees ahead with a leadoff homer in the third, sending a 118 mph missile into the left-field seats as they were three times more than left-hander Logan Allen.
Allen then played the role of Aaron Judge and Gleiber Torres finished third to knock Allen out of the game. Phil Matton entered and lined up Geo Urshela on the right side and the judge lost first for a double play.
But Stanton scored another blow to beat Trevor Stephan’s fifth, a 418-foot homer, 5–3.
Montgomery should have made it out of the fifth. He gave a one-out double to Jordan Luplo and then fired Hernandez. Ramirez hit a grounder, which Torres did not come up with and Odor dropped it once by Torres. It was ruled a hit and left Montgomery with runners on the corners.
Lucas Luetz faced Reyes and Lefty came out of the innings with a strike to maintain a two-run lead.
Luetge also scored seventh before giving way to Chad Green.
Aroldis Chapman added 4 man / eless scoreless innings to the red-hot bullpen with his fourth save of the season, putting Green in eighth place.
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