Aaron Boone did what he may to diffuse the Josh Donaldson-Tim Anderson feud on Sunday, and he needed the Yankees to “hopefully simply play ball.”
At some point after tensions escalated over Donaldson referring to Anderson by Jackie Robinson’s first identify, there have been no fireworks between the groups or from the Yankees’ bats apart from Aaron Choose’s game-tying dwelling run within the eighth inning.
However Aroldis Chapman’s troubling two-week skid continued — with a potential Achilles damage rationalization — within the ninth inning of a 3-1 loss to the White Sox within the first sport of a doubleheader on the Stadium.
Choose’s solo blast off reliever Kendall Graveman, his ML-leading fifteenth of the season, knotted the rating, however A.J. Pollock greeted Chapman with a leadoff homer to left within the ninth because the league-leading Yankee slipped to 29-11 on the 40-game mark.
It was the fifth consecutive sport during which Chapman has allowed at the very least one earned run since Could 11 — following a 12-appearance scoreless string to start out the season — and the second during which he’s suffered a loss.
“He’s simply not as advantageous along with his command,” Boone mentioned of Chapman between video games. “I believe at occasions he’s going away from his fastball. He bought beat on the fastball right this moment by Pollock however simply not fairly as sharp as definitely we’ve seen.”
Chapman was checked out by coach Mike Schuk after issuing a stroll to pinch-hitter Andrew Vaughn following the Pollock homer. The Cuban lefty remained within the sport and in addition coughed up an RBI double to Adam Engel for a 3-1 sport earlier than Boone pulled him to heavy boos from the twin-bill crowd.
“He needed to pitch. He’s simply coping with and was getting some therapy on his Achilles. I simply felt like when he was transferring round, he wasn’t transferring round nice on the market. However he needed the ball,” Boone mentioned. “I believe to me, he didn’t look nice on his legs with that. So I believe that was in all probability a difficulty right this moment.”
The dugouts had cleared the day prior to this, shortly after Donaldson had referred to Anderson as “Jackie,” infuriating the White Sox shortstop. Donaldson mentioned after the sport that he was making a joke about Anderson dubbing himself “right this moment’s Jackie Robinson” in a 2019 Sports activities Illustrated story, however Chicago supervisor Tony La Russa known as it a “racist” remark.
With MLB investigating the incident, Donaldson was within the Yankees’ beginning lineup and went 0-for-4. Anderson was rested for the opener with the expectation he would begin within the nightcap, La Russa mentioned.
Jameson Taillon posted his longest begin amongst eight this season in Recreation 1, permitting only one earned run — on three straight singles within the fourth — over seven innings with one stroll and 7 strikeouts.
“Joyful I may go deep with right this moment being a doubleheader, so I be ok with that,” Taillon mentioned. “Right this moment was in all probability the primary day of the season the place I felt I used to be executing all the pieces in my arsenal.”
Veteran righty Johnny Cueto equally saved the Yanks off steadiness and scattered 4 hits by means of six shutout frames. Choose clobbered Graveman’s 0-2 two-seamer into the second deck in left with one down within the eighth for a 1-1 sport, however the Yanks stranded runners on the corners on Aaron Hicks’ pop-up to finish the inning forward of Chapman’s newest regarding outing within the ninth.
“He’s had a few hiccups right here and although it hasn’t been good this primary month or two, he’s nonetheless been for essentially the most half getting outcomes,” Boone mentioned. “It’s been the final couple, the place he’s struggled a bit bit when it comes right down to command.
“We’ve seen him undergo stretches like this at totally different occasions in several lengths of stretch over the course of the yr. We’ve simply bought to proceed to work to attempt to get him proper, as a result of when he will get synced up, delivery-wise and strike-throwing-wise, he’s nonetheless bought the stuff that may very well be dominant.”
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