NEW YORK – Yankees right-hander Jameson Taillon misplaced his good recreation Thursday night time when Jared Walsh led off the eighth inning for the Los Angeles Angels with a double that deflected off the glove of sliding shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa.
Kiner-Falefa was shifted to the correct aspect of second base and chased Walsh’s grounder up the center. He slid and hurried to make a backhand seize and throw, however the ball skipped off his mitt into shallow left discipline, permitting Walsh to succeed in second.
Taillon grimaced barely and spit, however in any other case did not react a lot to the hit. Kurt Suzuki singled three batters later, scoring Walsh for a 1-0 lead.
There have been 23 good video games in main league historical past, together with two earlier than 1900. The latest was thrown by Félix Hernández for the Seattle Mariners in opposition to Tampa Bay on Aug. 15, 2012 — the final of three that season.
Kiner-Falefa preserved the proper recreation within the seventh with a stellar backhand cease and jump-throw to get Shohei Ohtani. The 2-way star pleaded with Angels supervisor Joe Maddon to problem, however replays confirmed the throw to first simply beat the speedy Ohtani.
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Mike Trout then flied out to left, leaving Taillon six outs from historical past with the meat of the Angels’ order out of the way in which.
Ohtani additionally despatched a fly ball to the center-field warning monitor within the first inning that left the bat at 103.8 mph. Taillon in any other case wasn’t hit onerous, mixing and matching six totally different pitches.
The Yankees gained the opener 6-1 behind a gem from Nestor Cortes, handing the Angels their seventh straight loss.
Heavy rain was forecast for Thursday night time, and it appeared sure for a lot of the day that the second recreation would get postponed. The opener was delayed for 1 hour, 28 minutes, within the ninth inning by extreme showers, however skies cleared round 5:30 p.m. and have stayed that approach.
The 30-year-old Taillon returned this spring from offseason proper ankle surgical procedure in the most effective type of his profession. He entered Thursday 5-1 with a 2.49 ERA and pinpoint management — he had walked 5 in 50 2/3 innings.
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Chosen second general by Pittsburgh between Bryce Harper and Manny Machado within the 2010 draft, Taillon has been hampered by accidents all through his profession. He is had Tommy John surgical procedure twice, missed time with a sports activities hernia and had an operation for testicular most cancers in 2017 that sidelined him for 5 weeks.
Regardless of all that, he entered Thursday 42-31 with a 3.72 ERA in 120 huge league begins.
Taillon’s opponent on the mound, Reid Detmers, has thrown one in every of two no-hitters within the majors this season. Detmers no-hit Tampa Bay on Could 10. The opposite was a mixed effort by 5 New York Mets pitchers April 29 in opposition to Philadelphia.
Detmers skated round hassle to get via 4 1/3 scoreless innings Thursday.
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