Maybe Matt Manning should practice not fielding the ball the next time the Detroit Tigers practice pitcher fielding.
With two outs in the bottom of the first inning, Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton launched a liner at 119.5 mph at the right-handed pitcher, causing him to miss nearly three months of action due to a broken bоne in his right foot.
After 21 pitches (31 strikeouts), Manning’s night was gone, and right-hander Beau Brieske came in to start the bottom of the second inning. Manning scooped the ball off Stanton’s foot and threw to first to retire him and get out of a two-on, no-out jam.Even though they had an early lead, Manning and the Tigers ultimately lost 4-3 to the Yankees. This was Detroit’s second straight loss to New York and ninth straight loss in the Bronx.
After the game, the Tigers revealed that Manning had suffered a second broken right foot. The right-hander will sit out the rest of the team’s 23 remaining games this season. In his third year with the Tigers, the 2016 first-round choice (No. 9 overall) has gone 5-4 with a 3.58 ERA and started the team’s first combined no-hitter against the Toronto Blue Jays in early July.
0 RelieveAfter getting the first two outs of his early relief appearance without incident, Brieske ran into difficulty when he allowed a single and a walk to the last two batters in New York’s lineup. Brieske allowed a single to DJ LeMahieu (Birmingham Brother Rice) with two outs and runners on first and second, resulting in a 1-1 tie.Brieske got out of the jam thanks to an Aaron Judge forceout at second, but he promptly gave up the lead to the Yankees in the next frame. Rookie Jasson Dominguez connected with a four-seam fastball clocked at 95.5 mph from Brieske as it zipped down the middle; the ball went on to reach an exit velocity of 110.2 mph and sail over the right-center fence.
Then the second-year pitcher did what every manager’s worst nightmare is: he gave out free passes. Oswald Peraza, who was batting.156 coming into Wednesday, had a runner in scoring position after walking on six pitches from both Gleyber Torres and Stanton. On the fourth pitch of the at-bat, the youngster Һit a middle-middle four-seamer that was 96.1 mph, scoring two runs and giving New York a 3-1 lead. Brieske was subsequently fired, and José Cisnero took his position.
Isnero got the last out of the third and the first out of the fourth on just two pitches each. After that, things didn’t go well for the veteran who was left unclaimed on waivers last week, as Judge Һit a double, Dominguez singled, and Torres singled to center to score Judge and make the score 4-1. Cisnero finally got Stanton to ground into a double play, 6-4-3, to keep the game close.