Houston – since the last time they saw them a month and a half ago – and even a few weeks before – the Yankees looked at the Blue Jays.
From Friday they get their last chance in the regular season to see the team having to haunt the field in the division for three more games while trying to erase what they have trimmed to a 3-game shortage with Thursday’s 8-4 victory over the Astros.
“De manier waarop ik er naar kijk, voor mij is elke game de grootste game van mijn leven in termen van we een play -off duw en we mochten games winnen, het team op een plek zetten om te winnen,” zei Cam Schlittler donderdag voordat hij terug naar New York vloog voor het team om een goede nachtrust te krijgen voor zijn start op zijn start op zijn start op zijn start op zijn start op zijn start op zijn start op zijn start op zijn start op zijn start op zijn start op zijn start op zijn Start on Friday. “We played them before, and it didn’t really go our way, but I am convinced that we will turn it around when we come back.”
Friday marks the 64th consecutive day of the Blue Jays on top of the Al East since sweeping the first place of the Yankees during a four-game Sweep against them at the beginning of July.
The Yankees then lost two of the three in Toronto later in July-Schlittler the only competition that the Yankees won in that series, which threw five-run ball innings and this season to enter 3-7 against the Blue Jays this season (which means that Toronto has the Tiebreker, what is happening this weekend).
The style of the Blue Jays to bring the ball into play and to use their speed to their advantage has been a bad recipe for the Yankees, who played some of their worst baseball against their divisional enforcement throughout the season.
They arrived on Thursday and this season made 77 errors in 139 games, of which 12 have come in 10 games against the Blue Jays – 11 of them during the seven games in Rogers Center.
“They are becoming aggressive,” said Schlittler. “I think I have been a better pitcher since the last time I came across them. They can put the ball in the game and we have a great defense behind me, but I have also worked on things. … I don’t think they have seen many fields under the belt. I am convinced that I can go outside and get the results that I have and continue to be successful.”
Giancarlo Stanton started his third consecutive game in the left field on Thursday, and the first time he played the field for three consecutive days since 11-13 August, so he needed the next series because of pain in the lower body.
Manager Aaron Boone claimed that Stanton, who went 0-out-3 with a strikeout and a walk, would be “not necessarily” from the line-up for Friday’s game against the Blue Jays, although it would be a bit of a surprise if he wasn’t, especially given the overnight stay of the team and early arrival in New York on Friday.
In the meantime, Aaron Judge continued his throwing progression before the Thursday game and he made five throws from the right field to homeplate-three to a Cutoff-Man Plus a few two-hoppers for the catcher.
Austin Slater (Hamstringstam) played on Thursday in a fifth rehabilitation match in the third consecutive day in the line-up at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, this one at DH to get a few bikes before being activated on Friday.
The Yankees have made a place for his return by adding JC Escarra to Triple-A on Thursday evening.
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