The Orioles blew a 4-2 lead over the Yankees in the fifth inning, and the New York bullpen holds the lead for a 5-4 Yankees victory. New York takes over second place in the AL East, 1/2 game ahead of Baltimore.
Chris Davis homered and Manny Machado doubled as the two continued to advance on the single season records in those categories. Right now, Davis has about a 1 in 1000 chance of break Maris’s single season AL home run record of 61, and a about a 1 in 500 chance of tying it. That’s based on his career home run rate coming into the 2013 season. Machado has a 31% chance of breaking Earl Webb‘s single season doubles record of 67 based on his career doubles rate. Based on a rate that is regressed to the AL mean, I put his chances at about 2.3%.
Baltimore has to fix their pen. Late inning leads are no longer safe, unlike last year.
Curious why they let a guy like Clayton Mortenson on the Red Sox clear waivers. Not that he would be the answer but he pitched real well last year and off the DL, who knows.
I guess the pen is blameless after looking at the game summary. Not the case yesterday obviously.