Schlittler sets Yankees record in 10-inning win
Cam Schlittler set a Yankees single-season record allowing 1 run over 8 innings, and a 5-run 10th carried New York past the Angels 6-3 to take the series in Anaheim.
Two wins in 3 games, the finale needing 10
The Yankees needed 10 innings to beat the Angels 6-3 on September 2, closing a 3-game series in Anaheim that opened with a 10-1 loss on August 31 before New York won back-to-back games, 7-3 on September 1 and then the extra-innings finale. Cam Schlittler allowed just 1 run over 8 innings with 9 strikeouts, and Vaughn Grissom's solo homer in the 7th — the only run Reid Detmers allowed in 7 innings, per Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com — tied the game and forced the extra frame.
Angels1-10Angels7-3Angels6-3Angels reliever Luke Murphy gave up 5 runs in the 10th, including a 2-run homer from Moisés Ballesteros, and David Bednar worked a scoreless inning with 3 strikeouts to close it out. Cody Bellinger went 3-for-5 with an RBI in the finale. At 80-60, the Yankees sit 10 games clear in the American League Wild Card race, with an elimination number of 20, and are 4-1 in the last 5.
Schlittler's 19th start of 1 run or fewer
Schlittler's 8-inning, 1-run outing against the Angels set a Yankees single-season record: the club's own account noted afterward that it was his 19th start allowing 1 run or fewer. Barstool Bush covered the night in 'Spencer Jones, Cam Schlittler Power Yankees Past Angels' and followed up with 'Yankees Rally Past Reid Detmers, Beat Angels 6-3 In 10.'
Rumor has it the Yankees figured out you need to score runs in extras as the road team
Barstool's Eric Hubbs was blunt about it, writing that he was glad the Yankees pulled the win out so everyone could further appreciate how insane Schlittler is, and later calling him 'Cy Young Schlitt once again' while crediting Bednar's ninth and the late-inning hitting from Wells, Bellinger, Grissom and Ballesteros.
Upcoming
Max Fried (4-4, 2.80 ERA) starts for the Yankees, who are in San Diego tonight, opposite Walker Buehler (8-6, 4.66 ERA) for the Padres. Fried was pulled early in his last start, allowing 1 run over 3.2 innings against Boston on August 29 on 63 pitches, while Buehler lasted 5 innings in his last outing, allowing 3 runs on 7 hits against Tampa Bay.
The Yankees are favored tonight, and the total points to a low-scoring game, in line with Fried's sub-3.00 ERA. For that to hold, Fried needs to go deeper than his last turn, since a quick hook again would hand the game to a Padres lineup facing a Buehler who's allowed at least 3 runs in his recent starts.