Yankees: Montgomery Keeps The Line Moving, Streak Now At Eight

The Yankees continue to look like the team we could only have dreamed about a few weeks ago, crushing the White Sox 7-4 at the Stadium last night with another balanced and very decisive attack marking their eighth straight win.

The Yankees continue to look very much like what they are at the moment, which is unbeatable. Starting pitching, power, timely hitting, bullpen security, you name it they’re getting it.

Extending their record to 9-4 on the season, the team needed only ten hits to put away the Chicago White Sox (6-6) in a game that the Yankees never were behind. The trouble for the White Sox, though, is that four of those hits were doubles and two more were home runs.

Add that to the fact that White Sox pitching couldn’t close out the Yankees on three occasions with Chase Headley, Matt Holliday, and Aaron Judge all collecting RBI’s with two out, and you have the kind of attack that is becoming typical of the team in the Bronx.

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As if that wasn’t enough, the Yankees put a 24-year old kid on the mound who wasn’t even supposed to be on the team, and he proceeds to quietly, but very effectively to tame the White Sox bats while earning his first win in a big-league uniform.

Montgomery Takes Command

Jordan Montgomery, making his second start for the Yankees, pitched into the seventh inning last night using only 88 pitches, three-fourths of which were strikes, to keep the line moving as the team continues to pile up consecutive quality starts from their much-maligned pitching staff.

Using a two seam and four seam fastball that seldom topped 91 on the gun and a tantalizing breaking ball on the outside part of the plate, Montgomery threw 19 first-pitch strikes to the 25 batters he faced in the game, looking very much like the comparisons to Andy Pettitte that were popular over the weekend.

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Montgomery left the game in the top of the seventh after having faced three batters, and Adam Warren came on to pitch 2 1/3 innings before Aroldis Chapman closed it out for his fourth save of the season.

Warren, who had yet to give up a run in this season, finally came back to earth a bit taking 42 pitches to complete his work for the day, giving up three hits and a walk while surrendering his first earned run.

Aaron Judge and Matt Holliday both hit home runs, driving in six of the Yankees seven runs and Starlin Castro continued his usual fast start to a season with three more hits raising his batting average to .365, putting him along with Headley on the leaderboard in American League stats.

Turning The Page

Tonight, it’s Luis Severino‘s turn to keep the line moving as he gets the start against the White Sox, who turn to Miguel Gonzalez for the unenviable task of facing a team that is firing on all cylinders at the moment.

Greg Bird, who was given the day off by Joe Girardi after his three-hit performance on Sunday, is expected to be back in the line-up tonight. Bird struck out as a pinch-hitter for Chris Carter on Monday.

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The makeshift lineup used by Girardi last night, with Ronald Torreyes yielding to Pete Kozma for a start and Aaron Hicks in left replacing Brett Gardner is also expected to return to normal. Somewhere along the line, it’s likely that Chase Headley will be given a day off as well.