Yankees: Record! Left-handed starter sets career strikeout mark in one game

Upon entering Thursday, New York Yankees ranked 10th in runs scored among all teams in the american league, a statistic that is even more pronounced when Jordan montgomery it’s on the mound.

The lanky left-hander Montgomery entered the game with the fourth-lowest career support average in the American League (3.64). Today he continued that trend, marking the 22nd of the southpaw’s 27 starts this season in which he received three or fewer support runs:

New York stranded seven runners on the bases as Montgomery pushed on the mound. The southpaw set a career-high for strikeouts, posting 12K in just 5 2/3 innings and allowing one run (a solo home run) on six hits and one walk:

Montgomery’s arsenal was on full blast. He relied on his cutter (28%), switch (27%) and four-seam fastball (23.%) for most of his pitches. Although his fastball is typically his sinker. Manager Aaron Boone was impressed with the left-hander’s dominance, which was key to his ability to effectively utilize pitches, which he used 16 times Thursday as Montgomery found a rhythm with his four-seam fastball.

Playing his fastballs (both varieties) on his slow-speed pitches is how Montgomery found strikeout success against Baltimore. His curveball had a 57% whiff rate, to go with a 59% rate on his turn, higher than his season average (43.3% on) his turn and (38.4%) on his curve.

But regardless of their strong starting pitching, the Yankees need to rack up runs if they want to compete in the postseason. His career differential of over 33 is the lowest among major league teams with at least 80 wins.

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While it means the team succeeds without major advantages, it could spell trouble in the postseason, especially with the single Wild Card Game as the Yankees’ likely entry point.

Rafael Martinez

I am fond of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and in general all of Mexican baseball. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover major events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterrupted since 2009), signings of important players. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, albeit as a fan. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but I carry baseball in my veins. Bachelor of Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I came to El Debate as a journalist reporter and it was almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to the radio providing my services at Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and after a few days, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. That is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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