Another series and another week of baseball for the New York
Yankees. The Yankees didn’t have a good showing over the weekend against the
Houston Astros but the team had the off day yesterday to mend and lick their
wounds and are back at it again tonight with the first of a three-game set with
the Kansas City Royals. The Yankees will send CC Sabathia to the mound looking
to turn his season around after recent struggles have bogged the lefty down
while the Royals will counter with former Chicago Cub and veteran pitcher Jason
Hammel.
Sabathia has been horrible lately, let’s not mince words and
let’s not equivocate. Sabathia has pitched to an 8.14 ERA in the first three
innings of games this season and is still prone to that one big inning almost
every single time he takes the ball. Sabathia has allowed five or more runs in
each of his last three starts which is a complete polar opposite of his first
three starts of the 2017 where he was dominant. Just counting down the days
before a 10-day DL trip and a knee drain happens.
Hammel was not especially sharp either in his last start
against the Tampa Bay Rays allowing a whopping 13 hits and six earned runs in
seven innings of work on Wednesday. If the Yankees score six runs and collect
13 hits you have to think that even with Sabathia on the mound that this one is
in the bag. No?
The game will be played at 8:15 pm ET inside Kauffman
Stadium in Kansas City and can be seen on the YES Network, MLB Network and MLB
TV. You can also follow along in your cars or on the radio by tuning into John
Sterling and Suzyn Waldman on WFAN.
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Sorry for the Capatcha... Blame the Russians :)