It’s not often that CC Sabathia pitches a complete game, the Yankees turn a triple play, get two home runs…and then lose the game, but that is what happened this afternoon.
Sabathia struggled in the first, walking two before giving up a bomb to Kurt Suzuki, and though the score remained close, the Yankees were never able to muster anything off of A’s starter Dallas Braden.
That said, besides the Yankees’ offense failing to score three runs for the first time all season, the play we’ll see on season highlight reels came when Kurt Suzuki hit into a 5-4-3 triple play, the first one that the Yankees have turned since 1968. Yep, that’s right, 1968.
You may or may not remember this, but back in 2000 (I think it was 2000, anyway), the Yankees hit into an unassisted triple play while playing the A’s. Something about baseball symmetry and all that.
At any rate, despite dropping this game, the Yankees still have won their first five series, the first time since the 1920s they have done so, and have received, in the past six games, starting performances of six or more innings pitched from all but one (Vazquez).
Keep pitching like that, and the Yankees will win plenty more games than they lose.
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