The sky was falling for a moment in Baltimore. Careless baserunning, sloppy fielding, and relying too much on the long ball were going to doom the New York Yankees yet again.
J.A. Happ wasn’t spectacular, but he put the Yankees in a position to win. He was pulled after 4.1 innings in favor of Jonathan Holder. The reliever escaped with baserunners in the fifth and threw a 1-2-3 inning in the sixth. But almost inexplicably, manager Aaron Boone left Holder in to start the seventh.
He hit the first batter he faced and gave up a single to the next.