Official Site of the Yankees · Aug 6, 2018
Chapman suffers 1st blown save since May
BOSTON -- Aaron Boone couldn't have set it up any better.
Masahiro Tanaka had given him 4 2/3 strong enough innings, keeping the Yankees in the game until their bats could get going. When Tanaka left, Boone handed the ball to perhaps the game's most loaded bullpen -- first to David Robertson, Zach Britton and Dellin Betances, and then, finally, to Aroldis Chapman.
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Robertson, Britton and Betances did their jobs, but the hard-throwing Chapman couldn't harness his heat, and the result was his first blown save since May 4. He'd converted 22 straight save opportunities since then.