Yankees beat up on old punching bag who was shown the door
The Yankees rallied for a 5-3 win over Athletics on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium.
NEW YORK — If we’re going to be completely honest, yes, bad luck did contribute to Athletics reliever Mark Leiter Jr. , reminding the Yankees why they kicked him to the curb last winter. On a freezing cold, night in the Bronx with the wind blowing up a storm, the four-run, eighth-inning rally that keyed the Yankees’ 5-3 comeback win included Giancarlo Stanton’s wacky two-on, nobody-out liner to short.
The way the ball curved away from shortstop Jack Wilson and into center field for an RBI hit, it lookd like a golf slice. “I don’t know what that was,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “It feels like 24-degree ball.
Somehow it landed out there. ” That was a bad break for Leiter, but the second generation Toms River, N. J.
, pitcher can’t blame what happened before and after on misfortune. The Yankees’ rally started hits by Cody Bellinger and Ben Rice, and it was capped by a mistake pitch. An 0-1 splitter was hung over the plate thigh high and Amed Rosario put it in the left-field seats for a three-run homer, his second of the night.