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Pitching to Sanchez no walk in the park
- Updated: September 11, 2016
NEW YORK — It wasn’t the first time that Gary Sanchez has seen an intentional ball turn into an unintentional strike. On Aug. 24, in a 5-0 win over Seattle, Sanchez saw a pitch during an attempted intentional walk that he wish he could have squared up.
But he wasn’t ready to swing. At that time, he was content to take his walk. When he got back the dugout, the New York hitting coach Alan Cockrell told him to always be ready. So when Rays reliever Enny Romero made the same mistake to Sanchez on Saturday, the Yankees’ phenom catcher made sure he was ready to do damage. He corked the pitch about 400 feet to center field for a sac fly, his second RBI in a 5-1 win over the Rays at Yankee Stadium.
“I knew they were going to walk me,” said Sanchez, who also hit a sixth-inning home run, “but at the same time, I wanted to be ready in case I could …
