James Paxton, Nathan Eovaldi Start As James Paxton Looks For His First Win Of The Season While Boston Looks To Bounce Back And Avoid Their Sixth Straight Loss

In James Paxton’s last start which came in St. Petersburg Florida verses Tampa Bay at Tropicana Field James Paxton who is a left handed pitcher for the team that wears the pinstripes showed improvement.

How?

James Paxton who is from Ladner BC Canada threw six dominate innings where he generated seven whiffs on 25 swings at his heater on Sunday, averaging 92.3 mph and touching 93.9 mph. Paxton had just six whiffs on 37 swings at his fastball through his first two starts, when it averaged 91.8 mph. according to an article by Bryan Hoch on mlb.com

On Saturday James Paxton will look to improve yet again and this time as he tries to get in the win column for the first time this season! Verses who? Boston who like New York is a member of the American League East while Boston will look to bounce back from their opening loss in the Bronx while also aim to avoid their sixth straight loss in game two of the four game series verses their American League East rival.

New York comes into the game with a record of 13-6 and is leading the American League East while Boston comes into the game with a record of 6-14 and is last in American League East and 7.5 games back of New York who as stated above is leading the American League East! “according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/standings

As stated above,

James Paxton will start for New York!

The left hander comes into the game with a record of 0-1 with an earn run average of 7.84.Paxton is coming off an encouraging 11-strikeout outing against the Rays in which his fastball touched 93.9 mph. Crediting mechanical tweaks to create separation with his hips, he permitted one hit through six scoreless innings before serving up a pair of homers in the seventh, settling for a no-decision. He will oppose Nathan Eovaldi who him is a right handed pitcher. Nathan Eovaldi comes into the game with a record of 1-1 with an earn run average of 4.09 The flame-throwing righty was strong in his last start, equaling a career high of 10 strikeouts while walking none over six innings against the Blue Jays. Eovaldi has pitched well at Yankee Stadium in his career, going 10-5 with a 3.54 ERA. “according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/roster/probable-pitchers

As for the opening between New York and Boston,

Gerrit Cole’s career with the team he grew up rooting for is off to a great start!

Why?

The right handed pitcher remained perfect on Friday night!

Where?

In the Bronx!

How?

Gerrit Cole scattered four hits while becoming the first member of the rotation to complete seven innings this season. Alex Verdugo reached the second deck in right field with a fourth-inning homer off Cole, who walked none and struck out eight in a 95-pitch performance.”according to an article by Bryan Hoch on mlb.com

While Gleyber Torres did his part by driving two runs while Gary Sanchez also did his part. ”according to an article by Bryan Hoch on mlb.com

How?

By hitting a home run that 457 feet to left center field. ”according to an article by Bryan Hoch on mlb.com

While New York won the opening game of the four series by a score of 10-3 Boston’s tough season continued as they lost their eighth straight game.

While New York won the opening game of the four series,

Boston’s tough season continued as they lost their fifth straight game.

Why?

Because of their mistakes!

With two outs and nobody on in the fifth in this eventual 10-3 loss, Ryan Brasier gave up what could have been a harmless single to Gleyber Torres. Moments later, unaware that Mitch Moreland wasn’t covering first base, Brasier looked over on a potential pickoff throw and wound up balking Torres to second.Aug 14, 2020 · 0:28Ryan Brasier balks in the 5th“Mitch told him he was behind [the runner] and Ryan forgot, so he threw over to first,” said Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke, a patient man who has to be getting exasperated by his team’s frequent mistakes.Continuing the other theme of the week, the Red Sox were immediately victimized by the mental error, surrendering three runs in the inning to fall into a 5-1 hole against Cole, who improved to 4-0 this season while lowering his ERA to 2.76.Aug 14, 2020 · 1:00Gerrit Cole K's 8 over 7 innings“No doubt that changed the game,” said Roenicke. “We are close at that point and then we let it get away from us. It’s a really good team. If you let them get away with it where you give them an opening, they usually capitalize.”The Sox are 0-4 against their rivals this season. But the bigger problem is the past five days, in which sloppy baseball and unreliable pitching have been the culprits in Boston getting outscored 52-25.“It’s obviously concerning,” said Roenicke. “You don’t like the mental mistakes. We can take getting beat, but we don’t want to give it to teams. Every time we do, they capitalize on it. We make an error and all of a sudden we give up a homer. Just doing things to give teams opportunities to score runs. So, just try to focus more, but I don’t think that’s necessarily the issue, the focus. I don’t know. Things are just not going well.”That’s an understatement. In this season-high five-game losing streak, the 6-14 Red Sox have had fielding miscues, baserunning mistakes and, the latest, a balk that should have never happened. Boston’s pitchers have allowed at least eight runs in each game of the skid.“Yeah, you know, it’s tough,” said Red Sox outfielder Alex Verdugo. “I think we’re all competitive, we all want to win, so when the results aren’t there, it’s a little bit tough. But we’ve just got to come out here every day, play hard, just keep throwing the ball, keep hitting, [better] situational hitting and hopefully turn it around.”At this point, turning it around seems like a daunting proposition.One-third of the way into this 60-game season, the Red Sox are on pace to go 18-42. The current losing streak is their third this season of four games or more. That is not a formula for making it to the postseason, even in a year in which the field has been increased from five to eight teams per league.“We know that to go out there and win, it’s going to be hard. We’re going to really have to put together some good wins from all sides of the field,” Verdugo said. “Like I said, it’s just something that it could be as small as [Nathan] Eovaldi coming out there and throwing us five, six innings solid [on Saturday night] and offensively us jumping on [James] Paxton or something.”There was one bright spotIf you’re looking for a silver lining in Friday’s loss, look no further than Verdugo’s at-bat against Cole in the top of the fourth. With the count 1-1, Verdugo teed off on Cole’s curve and deposited it into the second deck in right field.Coming off a back injury last season, Verdugo looks more comfortable at the plate with each passing week. He now has four homers on the season.“I like to take the first pitch through all my at-bats, especially coming into this division and it’s my first time facing a lot of these pitchers,” said Verdugo. “That at-bat, he threw me a curveball that I took for the first pitch and I felt like I saw it well. I felt good on it. I felt good on the take. And then he threw a fastball, I think, outside corner for a strike and it was one of those things, I think my approach at that particular time was really, really good.”Things were not so good for J.D. Martinez, the slugger who appeared to be finding his groove earlier in the week. In this one, Martinez went 0-for-4 with four strikeouts.“Chasing,” Roenicke said. “Obviously a great pitcher makes you chase a lot more. So whether it’s a 97 mph fastball or a great slider, curveball, this is a really good pitcher and you have to be on your game in order to have great at-bats against him.” “according to an article by Ian Brown on mlb.com

First pitch is set for 7:07pm from Yankee Stadium.

The game will be televised on Fox!