ST. Lewis — The Yankees put new stud his pitcher on the mound and tried to stave off a four-game losing streak. Even without Anthony Rizzo and Giancarlo Stanton, their attack scored a lot.
But Frankie his Montas misfired debut and Albert his shoddy work in the bullpen by Abreu, Jonathan Roaisiga and Scott his Efros to the Cardinals that wiped out the Yankees. His 12-9 loss paid the price. of town in front of another packed crowd at Busch Stadium.
Combined with the Blue Jays' win over the Twins, the loss dropped the Yankees' lead in the American League East to his 9.5 games, his lowest since June 15. became.
"We've talked a lot this year about winning games in different ways," manager Aaron Boone said before the game. "We lost some of the games we used to win all the time." Since being acquired from Oakland at last week's trade deadline, Montas has played just three innings to his season-high. 6 runs were allowed.
The Yankees offense ended his 3-run inning. In a second stitched together. A rutted Gleyber Torres and Andrew Benintendi, who was 2-for-25 as a Yankee, singled before Aaron Hicks, who had gone 0-32, came to bat.
With runners on first and second base, Hicks attempted to bunt the third base line, but the ball was fouled. He then scored Torres and fisted one of him to the left to give the Yankees his 2–1 lead. With one out, Merwin Gonzalez was hit by a pitch and the bases loaded. After LeMahieu struck out, Aaron Judge hit his two-run single to midfield to make it 4-1.
However, Montas' subpar debut continued to the end of the second with back-to-back walks to Paul DeJong and Yadier Molina. After he struck out Tommy Edman, Montas allowed a booming double to right center that Dylan Carlson drove to DeJon.
Nolan Arenado hit his three-run homer on the next pitch, and the Yankees trailed him 6–4.
Montas, in his third starting pitch since he had an inflamed shoulder and received a cortisone injection, in the second inning he had 53 pitches.
LeMahieu hit his second double with one out in the fourth inning. After Adam Wainwright fell behind the judges 2-0, the Cardinals intentionally walked him. Matt Carpenter grounded into a forceout, leaving the runner in the corner. However, Torres grounded out after Donaldson walked to load the bases.
Yankees ground-rule double by Benintendi and walk by Hicks in the fifth. Knocked out Wainwright on the , and the bases were loaded on a single by Jose Trevino. Gonzalez struck out while watching the pitch outside. Lemahu whistled. The judges then doubled off the center wall and dived into the two to tie the score at 6-6.
Another outside to Carpenter on his pitch, at home after another bad call by his plate umpire Ed Hickox, Boone claimed a call this season after claiming the call. was tossed for the sixth time. Carpenter then struck out and grounded two baserunners.
Pitching coach Matt Blake was ejected before the end of the inning by third base umpire Big He Carapazza.
Then the Yankees fell behind again in the bottom of his fifth. His two outs on Edman's single, centered on Loaisiga, were called first and he scored DeJong, but the call was overturned to add a run.
Lou Trivino came in and walked and forced Goldschmidt to make it 9-6. With the bases loaded he had one out in the sixth, with Trevino hitting his RBI his single and Gonzalez hitting a ground ball to hit another run, putting the Yankees on his ninth. I got it within -8. LeMahieu hit a sharp ground ball first to end the inning.
Efros hit his three-run homer over DeJon in the eighth inning to seal the victory for St. Louis.
