My two favorite people in the world right now are Lourdes Gurriel and Teoscar Hernandez. It’s definitely Father’s Day, but these kids come in third (triple draw). Lourdes achieved a grand slam in the sixth, making the escape (8-3) again a ball game. And Teoscar hit a three-pointer in the eighth, putting us ahead. The game started well. Vladimir Guerrero scored a two-pointer with two scenarios in the first inning to give us our first lead after the top of the fourth match of this series. After that, things went badly. Yusei Kikuchi walked over to Aaron Judge and hit Josh Donaldson (Josh was not happy) in the first, but came out of the inning without scoring, assisted by Kirk who took Donaldson in the beginning. In the second, Gleyber Torres started things off with a home game. Yusei also hit Aaron Hicks, but a strike-out and a strike-out / throwout (Kirk had a day behind the plate). The third included another walk and a Donaldson at home (just when Yusei seemed to trust his quick ball. He came out of the fourth without scoring. And Adam Cimber started fifth. Adam did not have his usual wonderful outing. One walk, one bouta single, double and another double scored 3 for the Yankees. Max Castillo entered his first MLB game in the sixth and abandoned home runs in the first two batters he faced. We were left with 8-3 and things seemed bleak. But the Homers from Lourdes and Theoscar took us back to the top. I skipped a George Springer homer solo in the sixth, his first hit since Monday. But just because we were more than two, it was not over. Yimi Garcia passed the seventh with a pop-up and two hits. He received a blow to start the eighth and, when the Yankees hit with Anthony Rizzo, Charlie went to Tim Mayza. As it turned out, he was wrong. Rizzo made it homered, making it a series game. And only one (Vlad dove is right about that and prevented it away from Espinal, which could have been a fairly easy game. Vlad injured himself in the dive, making Rogers Stadium the quietest of the weekend, but stayed in the game) and a walk put tying in second place. Jordan Romano enters and lures the runners. The ninth went strike out (Donaldson), walking (Stanton), fly-out (Torres) and Hicks (single). Second run and Rizzo again. Jordan went 3-2 on Rizzo (some very close calls did not go well for us, which was part of the story of the weekend), and I was thinking about maybe walking Rizzo. He did not, and Rizzo landed on Bo Bichette. I really like Romano. Jays of the Day: Romano (.376 WPA, 5 out save), Hernandez (0.348) and Gurriel (0.205). Let’s give Kirk one 0.077 and two runners thrown out at the bases. Suckage: Mayza (-.246), Cimber (-.241), Yikuchi (-.121). Right now I’m sacrificing a rum to the baseball gods, who did not deserve all the bad things I have said about them in the last three days.
