Recent Yank stretch is off the wall!
Yanks keep rolling with another solid start by Gray
Every day is so sunny for the Yankees presently, the clouds even have dissipated over the head of Sonny Gray.
Gray, with backup Austin Romine catching him for the third straight game, continued his ascension back into the good graces of the Stadium faithful with six innings of two-run ball for a second consecutive start in an opportunistic 5-2 victory on Saturday over the Indians.
The steamrolling Yanks (23-10) needed only one hit during a four-run fifth inning, improving to 14-1 since splitting their first 18 games of the season.
Cleveland starter Trevor Bauer retired the first 13 batters he faced before walking Neil Walker and Miguel Andujar consecutively after recording the first out of the fifth. Gleyber Torres followed with the Yanks’ first hit, a lined single to center, to load the bases, before Bauer also walked Austin Romine to force home the tying run.
All-Star shortstop Francisco Lindor then booted a grounder by Ronald Torreyes and compounded the mistake by throwing wildly to third, allowing two runs to score on the double-error. Brett Gardner lifted a sacrifice fly one batter later and added an RBI single in the seventh for a 5-2 lead.
“You’ve got to make your own breaks, and I thought the bottom of the order goes in there and has really quality at-bats to get some traffic out there and then we take advantage of a mistake,” Aaron Boone said. “Bauer was in cruise control, he was dominating us… so I’m proud of our guys for just continuing to play through it.”
After Gray departed, Chad Green fanned four over the next two spotless innings. David Robertson worked the ninth for his first save of the year after closer Aroldis Chapman had appeared in three of the previous four games.
Sonny Gray tosses second straight quality start and Bombers win for 14th time in last 15 games, 5-2, over Indians Saturday at Stadium.