The Yankees have actually looked pretty good \u2014 bullpen aside \u2014 in this series against the Astros, and again if not for that bullpen should probably be playing for the sweep tonight. Still, a series win over a division leader is never something to turn down, and that\u2019s exactly what New York has the chance to do tonight in the finale of this three-game set.<\/p>\n
Gerrit Cole gets the ball in the Bronx, looking to continue what\u2019s been a very strong if abbreviated campaign, especially for a 35-year-old. He\u2019d be on a 4.5-win pace if he was playing a full season, and hasn\u2019t allowed more than two earned runs in a start since July 22nd against the Pirates. In those subsequent five outings he\u2019s failed to pitch six full innings just once, a 5.2 IP effort at the start of the month. This is significantly better than we could have hoped for coming off of Tommy John surgery at his age, and he always seems to bring a little extra facing his former club.<\/p>\n
Former Yankee farmhand Hayden Wesneski is also in the midst of a return from TJS, but it hasn\u2019t gone quite so smoothly for the righty. He doesn\u2019t strike many men out, just 19.5 percent, but he does keep the ball in the yard which has helped keep his FIP 0.6 runs lower than his ERA. A 6.1-percent HR\/FB rate is going to jump eventually though, and the Yankees have found their power stroke recently. Some of that lefty power we\u2019ve seen this week could make it a long night but a short outing for Wes.<\/p>\n
The Yankee lineup is unchanged from the previous two nights, presenting seven of nine hitters that will bat lefty against Wesneski. The offense seems to be getting itself into a groove, so if it\u2019s not broken, don\u2019t fix it.<\/p>\n
Location: Yankee Stadium – Bronx, NY<\/p>\n
TV broadcast: YES, Space City Home Network<\/p>\n
Radio broadcast: WFAN 660\/101.9 FM, WADO 1280 (NYY) | KBME 790 AM\/94.5 FM HD-2, KLTN-TUDN 102.9 FM (HOU)<\/p>\n
Streaming: Gotham Sports App, MLB.tv (Out of Market only)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees have actually looked pretty good \u2014 bullpen aside \u2014 in this series against the Astros, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,48782,86144],"class_list":["post-331474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-pinstripe-alley-discussions","tag-yankees-game-threads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}