The New York Yankees have received six of their previous seven video games heading into the opener of a three-game collection in opposition to the Los Angeles Angels on Monday in Anaheim, Calif.
J.C. Escarra recorded the primary three-hit efficiency of his profession and added two RBIs as New York claimed a collection victory with a 5-4 win over the Colorado Rockies on Sunday.
“He can actually swing the bat,” Yankees’ supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned of Escarra, who made his MLB debut on March 29. “However the true good half about it’s what he is bringing behind the plate on the times he catches. I imply, he is been wonderful. … On the times I haven’t got (Austin Wells) in there, we have got a ton of confidence in J.C.”
That could be a great distance away from what Escarra was doing at the moment two years in the past. He was enjoying impartial league ball and driving an Uber or no matter it took to help his household.
“It is surreal,” the 30-year-old Escarra mentioned. “Simply from what I used to be doing. Generally I sit again and I give it some thought — the place I am at at the moment, who I am enjoying with, the identify on my jersey. It is unimaginable.”
Aaron Decide had an RBI double that snapped a 2-2 tie within the fifth inning on Sunday. He had two hits and is batting a sturdy .397 on the season.
Decide went 5-for-12 with two homers, three RBIs and 4 runs throughout the three-game collection in Denver.
The Yankees have but to announce their beginning pitcher for Monday’s collection opener.
As for the Angels, they hope to swing the bats significantly better than they’ve the previous two video games.
Los Angeles noticed its eight-game profitable streak come to a halt in a 6-2 setback to the Miami Marlins on Saturday. The Angels adopted that up by mustering simply three hits in a 3-0 loss within the collection finale on Sunday.
“I do not assume we’re ever going to succeed in that roll,” Angels supervisor Ron Washington mentioned, referring to the best way the group batted throughout its profitable streak.
“We will get to the purpose the place we swing the bat nicely, and I am on the level proper now the place I knew we wasn’t going to be doing what we did, however I assumed we’d be constant all through the lineup and making one thing occur, however the pitching [Miami] threw at us the previous couple days thought in any other case.”
Marlins’ starter Edward Cabrera allowed all three hits and struck out 10 in 5 2/3 innings on Sunday.
“Nearly all of it was Cabrera,” Washington mentioned. “I imply, he was actually good at the moment. He was in a position to spot his fastball, and he had a very good breaking ball.”
Proper-hander Jack Kochanowicz (3-5, 5.03) will begin Monday for Los Angeles and face the Yankees for the primary time in his profession.
Kochanowicz allowed one run every to the Baltimore Orioles and Los Angeles Dodgers in back-to-back victories earlier than settling for a no-decision on Wednesday because the Angels beat the Athletics 10-5. He yielded 4 runs on seven hits — together with two homers — in that recreation.
–Area Degree Media