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CHICAGO â When YermÃn Mercedes became the first player in modern history to start a season with eight consecutive hits, we waited for the Chicago White Sox rookie to come back to earth.
And when he finished April being named the American League Rookie of the Month, we waited for the law of averages to kick in.
Sooner or later, the waiting is going to have to stop.
While Mercedes has come down from his .417 average in April, he still led the majors at .376 entering Thursdayâs 4-2 win over the Minnesota Twins and had hit .333 since the record-breaking 8-for-8 start.
Ex-Yankees ace Masahiro Tanaka turns in another uneven start in Japan
Posted May 10, 2021
Former New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka is 2-2 with a 3.00 ERA for the Rakuten Golden Eagles in the Nippon Professional Baseball League.
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This one is for New York Yankees fans wondering about what could’ve been.
Former Yankees ace Masahiro Tanaka picked up his second loss of the season Saturday in Japan, with the Rakuten Golden Eagles falling, 4-1, to the Nippon Ham Fighters.
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Brosseau breaks up Manaea s no-hitter: Sean Manaea s bid to throw MLB s second no-hitter of the night and fifth of the season on Friday was broken up by Mike Brosseau. The Oakland southpaw had thrown seven no-hit innings before the Tampa Bay hitter, who specializes against left-handed pitching, laced a double to lead off the eighth inning. Brosseau came in to score and tie the game 1-1 on Mike Zunino s hit. The former Andrean teammates add the latest chapter to their storied careers. ESPN reporter Jeff Passan told The Times he hadn t heard of a hitter breaking up a pitcher s no-hitter, having both attended the same high school, but Passan pondered it potentially could have happened early in a game previously. Oakland went on to win the game 2-1 on a walk-off home run by Seth Brown. Manaea went 7 1/3 innings, giving up two hits, one earned run, one walk and striking out 10. Brosseau was 1 for 3 with the double and run scored.
AP Photos If it feels as if you haven’t heard much from rookie sensation Yermin Mercedes lately, all you have to do is check his numbers in May to know it’s true. Mercedes, 2-for-15 with no extra-base hits in five games before Sunday after running away with American League Rookie of the Month honors, tripled home the White Sox’ first run and scored on Leury Garcia’s sacrifice fly in the second, then drove in two more runs with a double down the left-field line against Royals lefty Mike Minor in the Sox’ 9-3 victory. The win, the Sox’ 11th in 15 games and their 10th in a row against the Royals at Kauffman Stadium, completed a three-game sweep and a 4-1 road trip that started in Cincinnati after the Sox learned center fielder Luis Robert would miss at least three months with a hip injury, -raising the Sox record to a 19-13, a season-best six games over .500.