NEW YORK — Aaron Decide hit his major-league main forty eighth homer and Gerrit Cole allowed one hit in six innings to turn into the fourth lively pitcher to achieve 150 profession wins because the New York Yankees beat the Cleveland Guardians 6-0 Thursday.
Decide homered for the third straight sport and is on tempo to complete with 61, two years after hitting 62 to interrupt Roger Maris’ single-season AL report. Decide homered for the sixth time in seven video games, seventh time in 10 video games and thirteenth time in 23 video games.
Decide hit his newest homer when he related on a 2-1 changeup from Cleveland starter Gavin Williams (2-6) and lifted it to the fitting discipline seats. The 360-foot drive marked the third time this season Decide homered in a 3rd straight sport.
Cole (5-2) allowed a single to Steven Kwan on his second pitch and struggled with command at instances. He tied a profession worst by issuing 5 walks, struck out two and acquired eight outs on the bottom, together with a double play by rookie Jhonkensy Noel to finish the sixth.
Cole joined Justin Verlander (260), Max Scherzer (216) and Clayton Kershaw (212) and reached the milestone in his 311th begin.
The Yankees had a four-run fifth after Decide drew his sixteenth intentional stroll this season. After seeing two sliders properly out of the strike zone from Nick Sandlin, Decide took his ninth intentional stroll in 18 video games this month to load the bases.
Austin Wells adopted with a sacrifice fly and Giancarlo Stanton hit a three-run homer that simply cleared the center-field fence.
Tim Hill, Luke Weaver and Michael Tonkin mixed on three innings to permit zero hits and end New York’s tenth shutout.
Williams allowed three runs and 4 hits in 4 1/3 innings and have become the 231st completely different pitcher to permit a homer to Decide.
Cleveland misplaced for the fifth time in sixth video games. The Guardians scored as soon as and had 5 hits within the last two video games of the collection after scoring six instances within the twelfth for a 9-5 win Tuesday.
The Guardians had been one-hit for the second time this season and blanked for the thirteenth time.
José Ramírez drew two of his three walks in opposition to Cole and stole his thirtieth base, changing into the primary Guardian with a number of 30-30 seasons.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Guardians: LHP Alex Cobb (fractured proper fingernail) will throw bullpen session within the subsequent few days.
Yankees: 3B Jazz Chisholm Jr. (sprained left elbow), who took batting apply on the sphere for the primary time Wednesday, is near returning, in line with supervisor Aaron Boone.
UP NEXT
Guardians: RHP Tanner Bibee (10-5, 3.33 ERA) opposes Texas RHP Nathan Eovaldi (8-7, 3.76) within the opener of a three-game collection Friday in Cleveland.
Yankees: LHP Carlos Rodón (13-8, 4.34) opposes Colorado LHP Kyle Freeland (3-5, 5.97) within the opener of a three-game collection Friday.
