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With little room for error, Tanaka toils
- Updated: August 3, 2016
NEW YORK — Masahiro Tanaka knew his day was done, and he saw Richard Bleier jogging in from the bullpen. There was no reason to wait. So before manager Joe Girardi even reached the mound in the seventh inning Tuesday night at Citi Field, Tanaka began walking toward the dugout, the ball still in hand.
Perhaps the right-hander was eager to move on from his 22nd start of the season, as he allowed a career-high seven earned runs in the Yankees’ 7-1 loss to the Mets. He walked none but surrendered eight hits, two of which were home runs.
“Just gave up some easy hits and wasn’t able to do a good job out there,” Tanaka said through a translator. “When you’re facing a good pitcher like that, you can’t really …
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