

Hernández slid to grab Kyle Higashioka's looper into short right field with two on in the seventh after Gleyber Torres' leadoff single off Trevor Richards and Aaron Hicks' walk.Įspinal, shifted to the left side of second, ranged back to the right side of second to glove pinch-hitter Josh Donaldson's 106 mph grounder against Adam Cimber. He walked the bases loaded in the third before Giancarlo Stanton hit a broken-bat grounder to Bichette, who made a backhand pickup and off-balance throw to first from the edge of the outfield grass. Manoah loosened up before the game with a football, then mixed 44 fastballs, 22 sliders, 18 sinkers and 15 changeups, getting five swings and misses on fastballs, four on sliders and three on changeups. Espinal hit a two-out single in the seventh and scored when Springer sliced a fastball to the opposite field for a doubl e on two hops to the right-field wall. Springer followed Espinal's third-inning single by pulling a slider from Jameson Taillon (0-1) into the left-field seats for his second homer in two days. There's a lot of fans here and it's just an exciting ballpark to play in and something you dream of as a kid." "You kind of want to come in, you want to play hard. He pitched six shutout innings of two-hit ball to win his major league debut in the Bronx last May 27.
