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06	November 2018

He tied his career high with nine strikeouts

On Aug. 31 Youth Yannick Ngakoue Jersey , Tyler Glasnow pitched the best game of his still-developing major league career, yielding a run and two hits in seven innings at Cleveland.He lost the game but flashed the form the Tampa Bay Rays want to see as he gets this major league thing together.On Tuesday night, the big right-hander, who is 1-5 this year and 3-14 in his major league career (with Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay), goes against rookie Shane Bieber and the Indians in the second game of a three-game series at Tropicana Field.Article continues below ...The Rays are in pursuit of their 13th straight home victory.On Monday night, the Rays� bats helped teammate Blake Snell by chasing Cy Young favorite Corey Kluber in the second inning, then couldn�t hold a 4-1 lead before Ji-Man Choi hit a two-run homer in the ninth to win it.�An exciting win to say the least,� Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said. �You just don�t see that type of inning (the second) against Corey Kluber. We were fortunate that we had some good at-bats, some patient at-bats, and got some big hits.�The Cleveland bullpen then shut the Rays down � until the ninth, when Choi connected off Brad Hand, the eighth Indians pitcher, with two outs to win it.Tampa Bay, still a long-shot wild-card hopeful, came off the three-game sweep of the Baltimore Orioles and have now won have won eight of their last nine and 17 of their last 20 games. They are 15 games above .500 and are 33-8 at the Trop since June 11.The Rays are 25-11 since the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline.The Indians http://www.jaguarscheapstore.com/yannick-ngakoue-jersey-cheap , who are closing in on clinching the American League Central, got Andrew Miller back Monday and will activate the recently required Josh Donaldson on Tuesday night.Cleveland had to answer reported complaints by Yankees and Red Sox contenders about the way the club acquired Donaldson and was then able to have him play rehab games in the minors.�We didn�t do anything different than any other team could�ve done,� Indians president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti said. �And, in fact, there were a lot of other teams that were negotiating with Josh at the time of the trade. Now, we can only see the one reality of what played out, because only one team can end up getting the guy.�And there�s only one thing to assess, and that�s what happened in the time that we had Josh with us. But, had he been traded to another team, the very same process very well could�ve played out with them.�In the start after the big game in Cleveland, Glasnow lasted just two-thirds of an inning in Toronto, yielding five hits, two walks and seven runs. The only positive was his two outs were both strikeouts.�I don�t think it gets much worse than that,� said Glasnow, who has 112 strikeouts in 87 1/3 innings this season. �Just have to forget about it and get the next.�Bieber goes for the Indians Authentic Patrick Mahomes Jersey , who are close to clinching the AL Central. The right-hander is 9-3 with a 4.63 ERA and has gone 4-1 since July 24 � 3-1 with an unimpressive 5.53 ERA in his last five times out.The night after Glasnow suffered his tough loss to the Indians, Bieber lost to the Rays, allowing nine hits and four runs, all earned, in 5 1/3 innings.The Rays won Monday without Kevin Kiermaier (illness) and Matt Duffy (back tightness).While Kluber�s teammates hurt his Cy Young chances � his ERA went from 2.75 to 2.91 � Snell can bolster his own campaign when he goes for his 19th victory of the season in Wednesday night�s series finale against the Indians. BOSTON (AP) � Chris Sale left the mound to a standing ovation and then waited along with anxious Red Sox fans while the Boston bullpen frittered away most of a five-run lead.Bases loaded in the sixth inning. Two runs.Bases loaded, nobody out in the seventh. The Yankees scored another.A leadoff home run by Aaron Judge in the ninth made it a one-run game.It was only after Craig Kimbrel struck out the last three New York batters that Sale could savor the first postseason win of his career, a 5-4 victory over Boston�s longtime rivals Friday night in Game 1 of the AL Division Series.�There�s no holding back now. It�s everything on the table, everything you�ve got,� Sale said after striking out eight and taking a four-hit shutout into the sixth. �I threw every pitch tonight like he was going to take the ball out of my hand after. You have to go up there and do what you have to do to get a win.�Game 2 in the best-of-five series is Saturday night, with Boston starting another pitcher trying to overcome a history of postseason struggles: left-hander David Price is 0-8 as a starter in the playoffs. He�ll face Yankees righty Masahiro Tanaka.�It�s a five-game series, and getting them to use the bullpen is a good thing,� Judge said. �We were able to scratch a couple of runs off them. We�ve got to build off that coming into tomorrow.�In the first playoff matchup between the teams since 2004, J.D. Martinez hit a three-run homer off J.A. Happ in the first. The 108-win Red Sox made it 5-0 in the third and then white-knuckled it as New York slowly chipped away after Sale left with two on and one out in the sixth.New York, which won 100 regular-season games plus the AL wild-card game against Oakland, got three singles and two walks in the sixth http://www.kansascitychiefsteamonline.com/patrick-mahomes-ii-jersey , scoring two before Brandon Workman � the only player on the Red Sox roster with a World Series ring � struck out Gleyber Torres to end the threat.The Yankees loaded the bases with nobody out in the seventh but scored just one run. Boston manager Alex Cora used scheduled Game 3 starter Rick Porcello to get two outs in the eighth before turning to Kimbrel for a four-out save.�We almost caught them,� Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. �I thought we did a really good job of pecking away, a good job of giving ourselves opportunities, and just ran out of time there.�It was the first ALDS matchup between the clubs and the first in the postseason since the Red Sox staged an unprecedented rally from a 3-0 deficit in the 2004 AL Championship Series to advance and then won the World Series to end their 86-year dynasty of disappointment. (They also met in the ALCS the year before, and it ended with Boone�s 11th-inning homer in Game 7, better known in Boston as the game when manager Grady Little inexplicably left a tiring Pedro Martinez on the mound.)Boston fans were ready, with derisive chants for the Yankees during introductions and again after J.D. Martinez smacked a 2-0 fastball into the glove of a stem cell researcher in the front row of the seats above the Green Monster.�Everything you did before in the season doesn�t matter anymore. This is the playoffs,� said Martinez, who signed with Boston as a free agent in the offseason. �You know what the situation is. You�re playing the Yankees. This is the playoffs. You have to go. And now is the time to get it going.�Sale left with a 5-0 lead after giving up singles to Judge and Stanton in the sixth; both came around to score. In all, Sale was charged with two runs on five hits and two walks in 5 1/3 innings � the longest playoff outing for a Red Sox starter since 2013.Martinez and Benintendi each had two hits for Boston. Judge had three hits, including the only extra-base hit, and Luke Voit had two singles for New York, which went 1 for 7 with runners in scoring position.Happ lasted just two innings for his shortest postseason start, allowing five runs on four hits and a walk while striking out two.POWER OUTAGEThe Yankees had 10 hits, but the first nine were singles. Stanton Authentic Derwin James Jersey , who hit 38 homers in the regular season, had four of the Yankees� 13 strikeouts.�Sometimes you know that goes with Giancarlo sometimes,� Boone said. �If you make pitches against him, his outs are a lot of times strikeouts. � You have to live with that sometimes.�NO RELIEFRyan Brasier faced three batters and two of them reached. Workman got a big out but also allowed two hits and a walk. Matt Barnes walked one but allowed an inherited runner to score. Even the usually reliable Kimbrel coughed up a run.Just like that, the 5-0 lead was down to one run.It was exactly the kind of performance that had Boston fans in a panic entering the series. But Workman insisted the team is still confident in its bullpen.�I believe we�re the guys that are going to get the job done,� he said.HAMMY TIMEAaron Hicks singled off Sale to start the fourth � ending an 11-pitch at-bat � but once he got to first base he began flexing his right leg. After a visit from the trainer, Hicks was replaced by pinch-runner Brett Gardner.Hicks, who battled hamstring problems down the stretch, was also late going out to center field in the bottom of the first. The team said he had tightness in his right hamstring and was being evaluated.�He�ll get examined further tomorrow, and have an MRI and everything,� Boone said. �He felt like it might have been cramping, so we�ll just have to see.�UP NEXTPrice pitches for the Red Sox in search of his first playoff win as a starter, though he has two postseason wins in relief. Tanaka pitched seven shutout innings in Game 5 of the ALCS against Houston last year.