NEW YORK – No comebacks for the Yankees Saturday.
A little bit of thunder in the ninth from the Bronx Bombers, but it wasn’t enough as the Angels held on 8-4 behind Matt Palmer and a late rally of their own.
Palmer outpitched CC Sabathia for his second major league victory. Torii Hunter chased Sabathia with a two-run double in a four-run seventh and the Angles ended New York’s four-game winning streak. The 30-year-old rookie pitcher, who improved to 2-0 on the season, pitched three-hit ball for 6 1/3 innings before the Angels’ struggling bullpen survived a scare in the ninth. The Yankees scored three runs in a late rally, unlike the night before, that would fall short.
The Yankees put up a season low four hits, while Sabathia fell to 1-3 on the year, giving up four earned runs in 6 2/3 innings. The burly lefty threw 119 pitches.
“CC is so strong. He’s used to throwing that many pitches,” explained Yankee manager Joe Girardi of why he left Sabathia in with runners on in the seventh. “He had a big strikeout of the previous batter. I didn’t think it was a problem. He’s such a competitor.”
Girardi talked about Palmer’s performance, too. “He’s a guy we’ve never seen. He threw a good ballgame. We had a chance to get some runs and we didn’t.
“You’d like to be able to do it every day,” Girardi added of comebacks, “but that’s not going to happen. CC is able to shut people down, but he didn’t do it today. He threw a pretty descent game today, but Palmer threw a better game. We haven’t scored him a bunch of runs this season.”
Sabathia admitted his frustration. “We were in the game late and I gave up some hits. Hunter has a quick bat. I had him 0-2 and he got the hit.
“It all evens out,” Sabathia added of the lack of run support. “It’s a long season and sometimes the offense is going to be big. I feel I threw the ball well today, but I got the loss.”
Despite the loss, Sabathia’s velocity was the best it has been this season. He was throwing in the high 90s in the seventh, touch 98 on the radar gun at one point.
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