![]() Verlander began his 103rd regular-season start with the Astros by getting a called third strike on Bauers. Tommy Kahnle worked the seventh and Michael King struck out Altuve looking at a full-count changeup to end the eighth with a runner on. Ian Hamilton (2-1) pitched two innings in relief to earn the win. “Obviously he’s not built up yet, but that’s what it looks like.” “That’s Nestor right there at his best,” Boone said. He showed a slight uptick in fastball velocity in his first big league start since May 30 in Seattle. “Usually we don’t strike out that much, but they were dealing over there,” Baker said.Ĭortes returned from a rotator cuff strain and was limited to 64 pitches following two rehab outings. The Astros fell to 11-6 in their last 17 games and struck out 16 times - one shy of their season high. Jose Altuve hit his 200th career homer off Cortes in the third, but that was Houston’s only hit against the left-hander. Giancarlo Stanton reached three times for the Yankees, but was easily thrown out by center fielder Mauricio Dubón attempting to score from second on DJ LeMahieu’s base hit in the third. “Obviously, that was a big spot - one of the best hitters in the world,” Verlander said. He finished his 499th career start by getting the slugger on a popup after manager Dusty Baker visited the mound. Verlander retired Aaron Judge four times, on three flyouts and a popout. Then he kind of really settled in and started making pitches.” I thought we waited him out, hit some balls on the nose. “He was struggling to find his good command early. “I thought we had good at-bats against Verlander,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. Torres homered leading off the eighth against Kendall Graveman. I love these guys and being able to go out there and compete with them again, it’s a lot of fun.”Īnthony Volpe lifted a sacrifice fly in the second for the Yankees, who won for the third time in four games. “So it’s been very easy to kind of feel like I’ve been here the whole time. It was really only three months because I missed the first month with injury. “It was like this moment of time that I wasn’t here. “It felt oddly familiar,” said Verlander, who pitched in the Bronx for the Mets on July 25. And if Verlander exercises his 2025 option, the Mets would send Houston another $17.5 million. New York also agreed to send $35,520,753 to the Astros as part of the deal. ![]() So definitely felt better after the last few innings."Īfter helping the Astros to a second World Series title and winning his third AL Cy Young Award, Verlander signed an $86.7 million, two-year contract with the Mets as a free agent in December.īut the Mets stumbled this season and Houston reacquired Verlander for a pair of minor league prospects at Tuesday's trade deadline. Not exactly sure why, but I was able to rein it in, make some better pitches and keep us in the ballgame. “I was kind of all over the place control-wise. “It was a battle, the first three innings,” Verlander said. In his first start for the Astros since winning Game 5 of the World Series at Philadelphia last November, the 40-year-old right-hander averaged 94 mph on his 52 four-seam fastballs. He struck out four, walked two and fell to 10-8 against New York in the regular season. Verlander (6-6) allowed two runs and seven hits, losing a regular-season start to the Yankees for the first time since June 2015 with Detroit. Gleyber Torres also went deep for New York, and Nestor Cortes struck out a season-high eight over four innings during an encouraging return to the mound following two months on the injured list. NEW YORK - Justin Verlander began his second stint with the Houston Astros by pitching seven solid innings, but he gave up a go-ahead homer to Jake Bauers that sent the New York Yankees to a 3-1 victory Saturday. ![]() Verlander throws 7 solid innings to begin 2nd stint with Astros but loses 3-1 to Yankees
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