NEW YORK — Kendall Graveman returned from the minors with a refined delivery and arsenal of pitches. It wasn’t pretty, but the A’s got what they wanted out of him.
Graveman did not use the changeup, the pitch he was working on adding to his repertoire, all that often Friday night, but his heavy dosage of fastballs and sinkers kept the Yankees to three hits over six innings of work in Friday’s 10-5 victory to snap a three-game losing streak.
The three hits were costly as two were home runs. Graveman surrendered a solo shot to Gleyber Torres in the third inning and a first-pitch sinker to Aaron Judge that was obliterated over the wall in right field for a three-run shot in the fifth.