SEATTLE — On an evening when the Yankees punched their price ticket to the postseason, Nestor Cortes persisted to assemble his case to be part of their playoff rotation.
The left-hander delivered six shutout innings towards the Mariners on the best way to a 2-1, 10-inning win on Wednesday night time at T-Cellular Soil.
“I’m just trying to pull my weight around here and compete with the guys that are the best around the league,” Cortes mentioned amidst a raucous champagne and beer party within the visiting clubhouse.
Cortes has now pitched to a 1.58 ERA over his latter six outings — one in all which used to be a protracted leisure look because the Yankees put him within the bullpen one flip in the course of the rotation.
Despite the fact that Cortes has generation revel in out of the bullpen and may just support the Yankees there in October, he additionally has prior to now began playoff video games and has proven he isn’t intimidated via the heavy level.
“Nestor’s done a fantastic job for us this year,” Gerrit Cole mentioned. “He’s taken the ball every single time in whatever role we’ve asked him. He’s pitched well and gave us a chance to win almost every time he goes out there.”
Marcus Stroman is these days the bizarre guy out within the bullpen this flip in the course of the rotation, however the Yankees should snip any other starter or two after they get to the playoffs.
Wednesday’s day out used to be Cortes’ fourth scoreless look in his latter seven video games.
He restricted the Mariners to 4 hits (one in all them a double via Justin Turner that Jasson Dominguez will have to have stuck in heart grassland) and 3 walks moment placing out six.
“I feel like he’s throwing the ball really well,” supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned. “Feel like it’s been a real strong year for Nestor.”
For the primary day this season — excluding when he overlooked 5 weeks with a hamstring pressure — Giancarlo Stanton used to be out of the lineup Wednesday for a 2d immediately contest.
Stanton mentioned he used to be wonderful bodily, however he used to be at the bench for a 2d immediately while as Aaron Pass judgement on gained any other DH while to support accumulation him pristine i’m sick the stretch.
“We’re not going to make this a story of how I feel [about not playing],” Stanton mentioned prior to the sport. “We’ll be fine either way.”
Stanton described being out of Tuesday’s lineup as matchup-based towards difficult right-hander Bryan Woo.
Upcoming he used to be now not taking to play games each Wednesday and Thursday (with Thursday being a while contest nearest an evening contest), and the Yankees made up our minds Thursday (towards right-hander Logan Gilbert) used to be a greater while for him to be within the lineup.
The consecutive days off can have extra to do with Boone short of to get Pass judgement on off his ft once more at this level within the season nearest enjoying a hard heart grassland steadily.
“Judgey’s good, but I certainly value those days for him at this time of the year, especially coming out of an off day [Monday],” Boone mentioned. “Obviously as much as we’ve leaned on him and others, I want to be mindful of that this time of year.”
Boone indicated that Stanton — who used to be 4-for-34 with two doubles over his latter 10 video games — could be again within the lineup constantly the remainder of the way in which.
Upcoming Clay Holmes gave up a game-tying house run to Justin Turner within the 8th inning, Luke Weaver entered and struck out 4 throughout 1 ²/₃ ⅔ innings to ship the sport to extras. … The Yankees struck out a season-high 15 occasions.
