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Yankees’ shaky defense opens door for Jays
- Updated: August 17, 2016
NEW YORK — At first glance, it will look like the Yankees’ 7-4 loss to the Blue Jays on Wednesday was mostly on CC Sabathia. He allowed seven earned runs, after all.
Sabathia did make mistakes, like the 0-1 sinker that Melvin Upton Jr. deposited over the right-field wall in the fifth. But before that, Sabathia was the unlucky recipient of some questionable defense that allowed Toronto to claim easy bases. It wasn’t Sabathia’s finest performance, but part of the struggles were out of the big lefty’s control, according to manager Joe Girardi.
“I don’t think its seven earned runs, I look at it as probably four,” Girardi said. “I know how scorekeepers do it, but there’s no reason we should’ve given up more than four today. We had a tough day defensively that cost us.”
Sabathia pitched well over his past two starts, allowing three earned runs apiece in outings of 5 2/3 innings and six innings. Then he breezed through the Blue Jays in the first inning Wednesday.
Toronto scored three runs in the …
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