The boos began early Monday. They had been for George Springer, the goal of Yankee followers’ vitriol for his half within the 2017 Astros dishonest scandal. The Blue Jays’ heart fielder, nevertheless, quieted the taunts with a house run and RBI double. So, the Bronx trustworthy’s anger turned on the Bombers and their weak offense.
Alek Manoah and the Blue Jays bullpen held the Yankees to only three hits and shut the Bombers out 3-0 loss in entrance of 26,211 on the Stadium.
Aaron Judge, who was booed as he walked off the sphere after placing out for the second time within the eighth inning, mentioned that this Blue Jays staff, picked by many to win the division, goes to be a battle for the Yankees all season.
“They’re a great ballclub,” Judge mentioned. “They got a great offense that we saw today. Up and down they got guys and hit the power, got good speed up and down and then a great pitching staff. A good starting rotation and back end of the bullpen. So they’re gonna be tough all year, but we’re looking forward to it.”
The Yankees (2-2) have misplaced two straight and went down quietly to their American League East rivals Monday evening.
Joey Gallo, who had his first multiple-hit recreation of the season, led off the ninth with a single, however Gleyber Torres then hit right into a double play. Aaron HIcks singled after which Kyle Higashioka struck out to finish the sport.
It just about went like that a lot of the evening for the Yankees’ bats.
Manoah flummoxed the supposedly highly effective lineup. Joey Gallo’s single within the second was the Bombers’ solely hit for the primary six innings. The Blue Jays right-hander, who made his main league debut right here at Yankee Stadium final season, did put 4 Yankees on the bases with walks, but additionally struck out seven.
“He was locating his pitches. We gave him a little pressure and didn’t come through,” Anthony Rizzo mentioned. “He’s got three pitches that he can locate and he was locating them. Tip your hat to him. He played a good game.”
Yes, it’s very, very early within the season. But offense was a problem final season, and the Yankees have but to indicate they’ve improved that side of their recreation.
The Yankees had been constructed on energy hitters and to overwhelm their opponents with offense, however completed seventh within the American League in OPS (.729), tenth in runs scored (711) and had been fourth in strikeouts (1482) final season. The Yankees let long-time hitting coach Marcus Thames and assistant hitting coach PJ Pilittere go this winter after these struggles.
They promoted Dillon Lawson, who had been the staff’s minor league hitting coordinator, to the teaching place with the large leaguers. The promoted Triple-A hitting coach Casey Dykes to his assistant and employed Hensley Meulens, who has huge main league teaching expertise, because the second assistant.
So far the change in personnel hasn’t netted the specified outcomes.
While offense is down throughout the board — with league-wide batting common via 4 video games down from .237 final yr to .229 now and the OPS from .714 to .682 — the Yankees aren’t precisely dominating on that aspect of the ball. The Yankees went into Monday evening’s recreation 18th in scoring within the league and sixteenth in OPS.
Jameson Taillon, who received off to a powerful begin, was shocked by the dearth of offense.
“You gotta be on your game to shut this lineup out,” Yankees right-hander Jameson Taillon mentioned. “So it’s not going to occur a lot this yr, I don’t suppose. Even within the recreation like tonight they labored a bunch of walks and good counts, there have been balls hit onerous.
“Hats off to them,” Taillon mentioned of the Blue Jays. “They played some really good defense throughout the game and made the plays when they had to and made the pitches when they had to.”
Taillon, who was a query mark to start out the season after having ankle surgical procedure this winter, was the primary Yankee pitcher to get via 5 innings this yr. Taillon battled the Blue Jays, permitting two runs on 5 hits. He struck out six and didn’t stroll a batter. The solely harm the Jays did to the right-hander was George Springer’s third-inning, two-run homer.
Taillon held the remainder of the Blue Jays’ explosive lineup, which already had a serious league-leading eight homers coming into the sport, in examine.
Michael King gave up an RBI double to Springer within the seventh.
“They’re super professional,” Taillon mentioned of the Blue Jays’ lineup. “They are going to adjust and we’re going to have to make sure we don’t fall into anything predictable. It’s going to be a fun back and forth.”
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