SEATTLE — The New York Yankees gained all 5 of their challenges using the automated ball-strike system throughout Monday evening’s 2-1 loss to the Seattle Mariners.
Though supervisor Aaron Boone would have preferred for his staff to keep undefeated 4 video games into the season, he was happy with the eager eyes a lot of his hitters displayed towards Mariners starter Luis Castillo, who tossed six scoreless innings.
“Really good job by the guys,” Boone stated. “When you have that kind of success rate, it’s not going to be like that every night. But I thought every one was obviously warranted, and a couple in some key spots to give us a chance to build an inning. We just weren’t able to build much offensively tonight.”
It began in the underside of the second when Jose Caballero accurately challenged that two referred to as strikes by plate umpire Mike Estabrook had been balls, together with a 3-2 pitch from Castillo. Caballero tapped his helmet to ask for a problem as he took his left shin guard off.
Giancarlo Stanton additionally efficiently challenged {that a} 1-2 slider by Castillo was under the strike zone, after which reached on a single. One batter later, Jazz Chisholm Jr. challenged {that a} first-pitch slider by Castillo was out of the zone, although he later struck out.
After that at-bat, Estabrook and Boone had a verbal trade, with Boone remaining in the dugout.
“Those are razor-thin pitches sometimes,” Boone stated. “You don’t want to always have to be challenging. But good on the guys for just hammering the strike zone right now.”
The Yankees have now had an MLB-best 10 profitable challenges this season and are 10-of-11 on challenges (second behind the Diamondbacks, who’re 3-for-3).
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
