Yankees’ win streak ends at eight in loss to Astros
- Davis Cornell
- Apr 26
- 3 min read
The Astros beat the Yankees 7-4 to snap the Yankees eight game win streak. Luis Gil got the start for the Yankees and faced off against Spencer Arrighetti.
Trent Grisham, Ben Rice, and the birthday boy, Aaron Judge, went down in order on just seven pitches in the top half of the first inning.
Gil walked Carlos Correa on four pitches to lead off the bottom of the frame, then served up a two-run bomb to Christian Walker, giving the Astros a 2-0 lead. Gil then plunked Cam Smith, but picked him off to end the inning.
In the top of the second, Jazz Chisholm Jr. botched another ABS challenge, making him 1-for-7 this year; his challenge's privileges need to be taken away. He did make up for it a little by lining a one-out single to right-center, then swiped second for his ninth stolen base of the season. However, J.C. Escarra struck out swinging to strand Jazz in scoring position.
Gil served up his second two-run homer of the ballgame to Isaac Paredes, both coming with two outs to extend the Astros' lead to 4-0.
Gil walked Correa to lead off the bottom of the fifth, then surrendered a double to Yordan Alverez to put two runners in scoring position with nobody out and end Gil's day. Paul Blackburn took over and allowed Paredes to line an RBI single to left, making it 5-0. The next batter, Walker, just missed a three-run homer but crushed a two-run double to left center, making it 7-0. Jazz made an unbelievable over-the-shoulder catch, then fired to second base for an inning-ending double play.
Final line for Gil: Four innings pitched, surrendered five hits, six runs, walked three, and didn't strike anybody out on 83 pitches. Gil threw his fastball over half the time at 59%, the slider 24%, the changeup 13%, and the sinker 4%. Gil topped out at 98.4 mph and averaged 95.4 on the fastball with just three swings and misses total today.
“I mean, when you're facing a good lineup like that, the plan is to be as consistent as possible executing pitches,” Gil said. “Today, credit to them, because they were good at taking good swings and taking good at bats.”
“Struggled to get swing and miss again,” Aaron Boone said of Gil. “Puts a couple of guys on there in the first inning. Free passes here and there. So wasn't that he was walking everyone so much, but the command just not there when you're not getting the swing and miss.”
Judge crushed a birthday blast in the top of the sixth, his 10th home run of the season, cutting the Yankees' deficit to six runs.
Paul Goldschmidt lined a one-out double into the left-center gap in the top of the seventh inning. However, Escarra struck out, and Ryan McMahon flew out to strand Goldy at second.
Blackburn retired the Astros in order in the sixth and seventh innings. Ryan Yarbrough came in relief for Blackburn in the bottom of the eighth and navigated around an E5, putting together a scoreless outing.
In the top of the ninth, Goldy lined a two-out RBI double to left center, his second double of the game, to cut the deficit to five runs.
Escarra followed with an RBI double down the first base line to make it a 7-3 ballgame.
McMahon lined an RBI single to right to cut the deficit to three runs and put the tying run in the on-deck circle.
However, José Caballero lined out to third to put an end to the Yankees eight game winning streak.
My thoughts on the game: Not a good start from Gil at all; he seems to be one of the clear odd guys out of the rotation when Gerrit Cole and Carlos Rodon return. Blackburn and Yarbrough were solid in doing their job of saving the rest of the bullpen. The offense was basically shut down today by Arrighetti, who pitched extremely well. Judge went deep, his third career home run on his birthday. But that was about it until the ninth inning as the Yanklees could muster together just seven hits, two of those from Jazz, his fourth multi-hit game of the week, and a couple of doubles from Goldy. On to tomorrow as the Yankees will look to start a new win streak.
“Smoked two balls in the gap there,” Boone said of Goldy. “So good to get him in there and swing it like he did, lined out his first time. So he's hit into some tough luck here his last couple of times out there, I feel like. But good to see him get a couple.”
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