close
close

first Drop

Com TW NOw News 2024

    • Yankees vs. Guardians live score, updates from ALCS Game 1
    news

    Yankees vs. Guardians live score, updates from ALCS Game 1

    Vaseline Posted on

    play

    NEW YORK – October has truly arrived in the Bronx.

    It’s a cool, breezy 50 degrees at Yankee Stadium for Game 1 of the AL Championship Series, and another playoff meeting – the fourth since 2017 – between the Yankees and Cleveland Guardians.

    Tonight, Yankees lefty Carlos Rodon will face a Cleveland lineup that features switch-hitting veteran Jose Ramirez, and “he’s the complete package,” according to Yanks manager Aaron Boone.

    “If I hear ‘How underrated, underrated he is’ one more time from someone on a network or something, I want to rip my arms off and throw them at the TV,” Boone said of a Hall of Fame player. track.

    CC Sabathia has thrown out the ceremonial first pitch, and here we go in this best-of-seven for the AL pennant…

    Carlos Rodon leaves, Clay Holmes enters

    Carlos Rodon has retired after six innings, leading 4-1 after a great rebounding performance following his hook in the fourth inning in ALDS Game 2 vs. the Royals.

    We’ve reached the bullpen portion of the game in the late inning, with Clay Holmes up first against Cleveland’s 4-5-6 hitters. Rodon’s line: 6 IP, 3 hits, one run (HR), zero walks, 9 strikeouts.

    Time for the Yankees endgame?

    That could be it for Carlos Rodon after he finished the Cleveland sixth by getting Jose Ramirez with a long break to left-center, where Aaron Judge made a nice running catch near the wall.

    It’s 4-1 Yankees, Rodon is in 93 and Clay Holmes is warming up in the ‘pen.

    Clay Holmes is heating up

    There’s sudden action in the Yankees’ bullpen as Carlos Rodon’s streak of 11 straight Guardians ends with No. 9 hitter Brayan Rocchio’s leadoff home run in the sixth. Pulls ahead, 4-1.

    Carlos Rodon just keeps going

    That’s 11 in a row, now retired by Rodon, and he ended each inning with a strikeout – this time sending Andres Gimenez chasing a slider to end Cleveland’s fifth run.

    Rodon only used eleven pitches in the inning, and the Yanks’ 4-0 lead feels doubled at this point.

    Aaron Judge’s first RBI of the 2024 playoffs

    And it comes via a sacrifice fly to center by Pedro Avila, who came on for Joey Cantillo after the left-hander started the fourth by yielding two more walks and two more wild pitches. It’s 4-0, Yanks.

    Strikeout for Carlos Rodon

    Rodon has now completed four scoreless innings and caps them all with a swinging strikeout – this time against Josh Naylor, still an October foe here for his rock-the-baby home run gesture against Gerrit Cole in the ALDS of 2022 .

    That’s seven strikeouts for Rodon, after facing only fourteen batters. It’s 3-0, Yanks.

    Getting wild in the Bronx

    Lefty reliever Joey Castillo allowed a second inherited runner to score on another wild pitch with two outs, this time with a pass from Giancarlo Stanton to make it 3-0, before Alex Verdugo struck out and ended made to the third.

    That’s it for Alex Cobb

    The Cleveland starter didn’t make it through the third inning and left the field with the bases loaded and two outs when lefty Joey Cantillo reached base opposite Anthony Rizzo….

    and Cantillo uncorked a wild pitch to score Aaron Judge from third base for a 2-0 Yanks lead before reloading the bases when Rizzo walked on four pitches.

    Juan Soto goes deep

    The free agent payday for Juan Soto continues to increase.

    Soto led off the Yankees’ third inning with a home run to right-center, giving the Yankees a 1-0 lead over Alex Cobb, who followed with a walk to Aaron Judge and was visited by an athletic trainer.

    Cobb was dealing with a cracked nail and a blister last month. It’s not clear what this visit was about, but Cleveland has Joey Cantillo warming up in the bullpen.

    Anthony Rizzo arrives with a goal

    Anthony Rizzo’s first postseason at-bat of 2024 showed no ill effects from his two broken fingers on September 28, producing a line drive single in the second inning, but the Yanks stranded runners on the corners with two outs.

    For the second time tonight, Gleyber Torres (1-for-2) went after the first pitch, this time forcing out.

    Another early missed opportunity

    After Gleyber Torres and Juan Soto led off with singles off Alex Cobb, the Yanks failed to score.

    It’s the fourth time in five October playoff games that the Yanks have put the first two runners on base, and they’ve scored a total of one run – in Thursday’s ALDS game at KC.

    In those spots, Aaron Judge is 0-for-4 with three strikeouts and a double play. Cobb hit him while he was watching and the Yankees bench was upset about Mike Estabrook’s low two-strike call against the Yankees captain.

    A good start for Rodon

    Carlos Rodon said he would try to follow Gerrit Cole’s lead after Thursday’s decisive Division Series victory in Kansas City by guarding his emotions, and so far so good.

    To end a scoreless top of the first inning, Rodon left a runner on second, striking out Lane Thomas and showing no outward reaction whatsoever – abandoning himself to the roar of the audience.

    But Rodon did have an argument with plate umpire Mike Estabrook after he walked off the mound.

    Anthony Rizzo is back at first base

    Just over two weeks after suffering broken fingers, first baseman Anthony Rizzo is back in the Yankees’ lineup for the AL Championship Series.

    According to Rizzo, it’s about managing pain tolerance, and that won’t be an issue for the left-handed veteran in tonight’s Game 1 against the Cleveland Guardians.

    “The 50,000 (fans) in the stands, the adrenaline and what’s at stake will trump everything,” said Rizzo, who will play at the eighth spot against Cleveland right-hander Alex Cobb.

    Rizzo suffered fractures to his fourth and fifth fingers when he was hit by a pitch on September 28, the penultimate game of the regular season. He did not make the Division Series roster.

    Yankees announce lineup for ALCS Game 1

    What channel is Yankees vs Guardians Game 1 on today? Time, TV program

    TV: TBS, truTV and Max

    Watch Yankees vs. Guardians live on Sling

    The Cleveland Guardians’ ALCS Game 1 lineup

    1. Steven Kwan, LF
    2. David Fry, DH
    3. Jose Ramirez, 3B
    4. Lane Thomas, C.F
    5. Josh Naylor, 1B
    6. Jhonkensy Noël, RF
    7. Bo Naylor, C
    8. Andres Gimenez, 2B
    9. Brayan Rocchio, SS

    SP: Alex Cobb, RHP

    Vaseline
    View all posts

    You Might Also Like