ABS, Aaron Judge assist Yankees’ series-sweeping win over Giants
SAN FRANCISCO — Chad Whitson wasn’t close, and Trent Grisham knew it. With the home plate umpire missing a high 2-2 pitch by 2. 7 inches in the third inning of Saturday’s game between the New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants, the Bombers’ center fielder immediately tapped his helmet.
Lo and behold, the computer overruled Whitson —that happened seven times in the game —and spared Grisham ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Chad Whitson wasn’t close, and Trent Grisham knew it. With the home plate umpire missing a high 2-2 pitch by 2. 7 inches in the third inning of Saturday’s game between the New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants, the Bombers’ center fielder immediately tapped his helmet.
Lo and behold, the computer overruled Whitson —that happened seven times in the game —and spared Grisham from making what would have been the second out of the inning. Rather than striking out, Grisham ended up walking and scoring alongside Cody Bellinger on a two-run double from Ben Rice, who shot a down-the-middle Tyler Mahle fastball to Levi’s Landing at Oracle Park. The technologically-assisted sequence proved pivotal in the Yankees’ 3-1, series-sweeping win over San Francisco.
Trent Grisham gets a challenge right by almost three inches Just a day earlier, Aaron Judge joked that the Yankees have had “too many meetings” about ABS after he successfully used the system for the first time during an at-bat that resulted in a two-run homer. When told of the captain’s quip before Saturday’s game, Aaron Boone admitted that he was “kind of obsessive” about the subject during spring training. “I wanted to talk about it a lot,” the manager said.