A lot is made of sweeping a doubleheader, which is funny because it happens about 50 percent of the time, but you will certainly take it. The Yankees only managed half the runs of game one, but the pitching stepped up to take the back half of the double dip, and the club won yet another series, beating the Guardians 6-1.
I was a little worried that Nestor Cortes would be the main character of today’s game, in a bad way. He gave up a home run in the first inning, to the second batter he faced, and as I noted in the game thread, his sudden vulnerability to the long ball is probably the single biggest driver of this four-start slump he’s found himself in.