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Girardi: Sticking with CC in 7th was right call
- Updated: July 21, 2016
NEW YORK — Sticking with CC Sabathia against the top of the Orioles’ order in the seventh inning was an easy gamble for Joe Girardi, who decided to trust the big left-hander with the game on the line. Even though it didn’t work out, the Yankees manager doesn’t believe it was the wrong call.
Pitching on his 36th birthday, Sabathia’s 97th and final pitch was served into right field by Jonathan Schoop, landing safely for a two-run double. Baltimore held on for a 4-1 victory over the Yankees on Thursday afternoon, snapping New York’s four-game winning streak.
“This is a guy that’s been though it and has done a lot of great things,” Girardi said. “With Schoop, he’s done a good job on Jonathan. Everything tells you to leave him in, in that sense.”
Sabathia is winless in his last six starts, but he’d limited Schoop to an infield single in three at-bats on Wednesday. In the seventh, Sabathia permitted a pair of one-out singles to the bottom of the order in Caleb Joseph and Julio Borbon.
That sparked activity in the bullpen, with right-handers Chad Green and Anthony Swarzak getting loose, but Girardi …
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