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Similarly, a fielder can field a ball in play, make a putout or an assist, and even commit an error, without being credited with a (consecutive) game played. For example, Hideki Matsui's consecutive games streak was ended when he broke his wrist diving for a ball with two outs in the first inning of the Yankee game of May 11, 2006.
August 5, 1940 (second game; 6 innings) – John Whitehead, St. Louis Browns 4 Detroit Tigers 0 Game called due to rain. August 6, 1967 (5 innings) – Dean Chance, Minnesota Twins 2 Boston Red Sox 0 Game called due to rain. July 12, 1990 (6 innings) – Mélido Pérez, Chicago White Sox 8 New York Yankees 0 Game called due to rain.
The game ended as Esteury Ruiz grounded to third baseman Josh Donaldson, who threw to first baseman Anthony Rizzo to record the final out. Germán recorded his 500th career strikeout during the game. It was the fourth perfect game in Yankees history, after games thrown by Don Larsen in 1956, by David Wells in 1998, and David Cone in 1999.
Mascots and fans during a seventh-inning stretch. In baseball in the United States and Canada, the seventh-inning stretch (also known as the Lucky 7 in Japan) is a long-standing tradition that takes place between the halves of the seventh inning of a game. Fans generally stand up and stretch out their arms and legs and sometimes walk around.
After Turang slapped a single to left, Ortiz hammered a 1-2 slider on the inner edge and sent it into the bleachers in left to knot the score at 2-2. Juan Soto puts Yankees in front
Judge posted a golden sombrero Saturday in a 2-0 extra-inning loss to the Tampa Bay Rays, striking out in all four plate appearances to lower his batting average this season to .179. The final ...
The history of the New York Yankees Major League Baseball (MLB) team spans more than a century. Frank J. Farrell and William Stephen Devery bought the rights to an American League (AL) club in New York City after the 1902 season. The team, which became known as the Yankees in 1913, rarely contended for the AL championship before the acquisition ...
DiMaggio in 1939. During the 1941 Major League Baseball (MLB) season, New York Yankees center fielder Joe DiMaggio recorded at least one hit in 56 consecutive games, breaking the MLB record for the longest hitting streak. His run lasted from May 15 to July 16, during which he had a .408 batting average.