{"id":34579,"date":"2022-06-03T04:46:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T04:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/yankees-win-2-1-as-jameson-taillon-carries-perfect-game-into-eighth\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T04:46:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T04:46:04","slug":"yankees-win-2-1-as-jameson-taillon-carries-perfect-game-into-eighth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/yankees-win-2-1-as-jameson-taillon-carries-perfect-game-into-eighth\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees win, 2-1, as Jameson Taillon carries perfect game into eighth"},"content":{"rendered":"
This was one of the most impressive pitching performances I’ve seen in my 27 years as a Yankees fan (yes, I was born a fan, don’t question it). Corey Kluber’s no-hitter and Gerrit Cole’s complete-game masterpiece in Houston are the most recent list-toppers. However, given everything that Jameson Taillon has been through in his career di lui, to carry a perfect game bid into the eighth inning on Lou Gehrig Day is right up there with the best of them. Thanks to a late rally capped off by a pinch-hit, two-out, two-strike, pinch-hit single from Anthony Rizzo that drove in two runs, Taillon’s masterpiece was preserved in a 2-1 victory. <\/p>\n
While the Yankees were able to jump on Shohei Ohtani early and often in the first game, knocking the superstar from his outing in the fourth with three solo home runs, the same could not be said facing Reid Detmers. They squandered a pair of golden opportunities in the second and third, putting the first two runners on in each inning, only for the following hitters to flail at waste pitches and fail to cash in any runs. <\/p>\n
Home-plate umpire Clint Vondrak (a call-up from the minors) did his part to help the sluggish Yankees at the dish, squeezing Detmers at the top of the zone all night long.<\/p>\n