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Kyle Schwarber is getting all kinds of love right now. Also, did you really have Zach Davies as the walking-est starter in baseball on your bingo card?
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The Yankees were off on Monday, but that didn’t stop them from dipping their toes in the trade market to give their ailing bullpen a spare arm. The team announced on its Twitter that it had acquired righty reliever Clay Holmes from the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for infielders Hoy Park and Diego Castillo. In a move that essentially locks in backup catcher Kyle Higashioka’s return from the COVID IL, the Yankees also returned third-stringer Rob Brantly to Triple-A Scranton.
On the surface, the deal for Holmes is a little odd, and Occam’s razor suggests that it might remain exactly that. The 28-year-old has pitched in the Pirates bullpen for four seasons without much success. The 2021 campaign represents his best foot forward, and the hard numbers still aren’t great: in 44 games, he has a 4.93 ERA, 4.06 FIP, and 1.429 WHIP across 42 innings of work. He’s fanned 44 batters, which is good for a 9.4 K/9 but has also walked 25, a 5.4 BB
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The Yankees’ offense scored in just about every way besides a dropped third strike and a wild pitch with a runner on third, as they took the first of a two-game set with the Philadelphia Phillies, 6-4, extending their winning streak to three games.
This showdown had something for everybody on offense. Do you prefer small ball? The Yankees scored their first two runs thanks to the efforts of Greg Allen. First, he led off the bottom of the third with a single before scoring on an Estevan Florial groundout to first. Two innings later, he led off the fifth with a walk, stole second, advanced to third when Florial flew out to center field, and scored after old friend Didi Gregorius threw the ball into foul territory while trying to double him up on a Tyler Wade lineout.