Although he inherited a mess, Clippard did not allow the Cardinals to score.
Tanaka didn't ease fans with his performance from the get-go.
Tanaka struggled in his first two outings, yielding a combined 10 runs in 7.2 innings against the Rays and Orioles. Tanaka was supposed to locate it in the outside corner but he missed it all the way across to the inside corner.
The move to push him back to Friday also could be based on the numbers the right-hander displayed last season when getting an extra day. Anyways, after a shaky start, Tanaka later went on to have a solid outing.
The Yankees picked up Tanaka in the bottom half, though. After Carpenter homered three batters in, the Yankees tied it on Starlin Castro's two-run home run off Michael Wacha (1-1) with none out in the first. "When we've got the pen coming in", Romine said, "there's no worries".
When Fowler was retired, Chapman's streak against the Cardinals extended to 30 1/3 scoreless innings since the start of the 2012 season.
However, he left the game on a very tough spot. Tanaka's go-to pitch briefly betrayed him when he mis-located a trio of splitters to Carpenter - two in the dirt, one over the plate - before the Cardinals' No. 3 hitter launched his first homer of the season, a two-run shot off a 95 miles per hour sinker. Girardi said that he felt Tanaka's stuff got really sharp in the third inning.
His first two starts didn't live up to those expectations. Tanaka's offspeed pitches were definitely working today. Not the number you'd expect to see from your no. 1 starter but it's a long season - he'll be just fine.
A week ago, the New York Yankees were off to bad start and their starting catcher was injured. Jacoby Ellsbury reached with a single and Chase Headley followed it up with a double to right.
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Wong's throw wasn't far off target, but it also wasn't necessary with Ellsbury already stopped at third. Whoops. I'll take it though.
The Yankees have been able to shorten games with their terrific bullpen over the years, and Girardi liked seeing them do it even when they weren't at their best.
"Nothing much to focus on the next hitter and make sure you get the next hitter out", Chapman said of his mindset after the Martinez hit. He struck out neither of the batters he faced but he got the job done.
Aroldis Chapman is dominant against most teams, but when it comes to the St. Louis Cardinals, he appears downright impossible to face. Tanaka then drew a groundout from Yadier Molina before walking Jhonny Peralta, setting up first and second with one out.
The Cardinals sent out pinch-hitter Jose Martinez for Kolten Wong's spot.
Chapman allowed a two-out walk to Randal Grichuk and a double to pinch-hitter Jose Martinez before Dexter Fowler - the closer's teammate on the World Series champion Cubs previous year - grounded out to second to end it. Chapman got his third save on the season. Because Gardner played it well off the wall, the Cardinals held the runner up at third.
Baseball season is underway as the two most storied clubs in the history of the sport, the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Yankees take the field against each other for an exciting game.
Chapman, who continues to utilize a slider and changeup he worked on throughout spring training, got ahead of former Cubs teammate Fowler 0-and-2 before inducing a grounder to second to end it. NY kept its streak in place by winning two low-scoring games, following Thursday's 3-2 win with a 4-3 win on Friday night.
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