A day after falling into a tie in the loss column with Toronto atop the AL East, the Yankees fell a game back gain. David Price did his thing against the Orioles up in Canada this afternoon and suddenly the progress the Yankees had made last night was erased. To lose today kind of sucks because tomorrow's game is going to be really, really hard to win with Chris Archer pitching against Nova.
Eovaldi wasn't very good for the second straight outing. He had no command of his fastball and that was evidenced by the four walks and five hits he surrendered in just 5.1 innings. He did leave the Yanks within striking distance upon exiting but they couldn't mount a big enough comeback and Nate was sacked with his first loss since June 16th.
Their biggest chance came in the bottom of the 8th when Colome loaded the bases for Gregorious. It's pretty amazing how Didi has become a guy you wan't up in these situations. Unfortunately he hit a frozen rope right at Forsythe and ended the inning. It was the same kind of deflating feeling you got when he hit what would have been a go-ahead grand slam to the warning track in Boston on Monday.
It was pretty disappointing not to put forth a better effort against Matt Moore who's really struggled this year. Although they did chase him in the fifth inning, he seemed to have everyone off balanced until Didi's RBI double. Tomorrow's not going to be any easier. They'll be playing with a full deck minus Tex against the righty Archer but I'm not expecting a whole lot. You've just got to hope it's one of those days for Nova where he's got everything working and is as good as anybody but we haven't seen that guy in a really long time.
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