Yonny Chirinos returned from the minors for his first MLB start since April 28. He dealt with a forearm strain and missed quite a bit of time and was scheduled to be on a 80-85 pitch limit for the evening.
Chirinos was up for the task of facing the New York Yankees lineup. In the first inning he allowed back-to-back singles off the bats of Brett Gardner and Aaron Judge. After getting ahead of Judge 0-2 with a beautiful slider down and away he hung a slider middle-middle that he was fortunate wasn’t sent into orbit. He rebounded from the tough start by striking out Giancarlo Stanton on three pitches. The third strike went about 55 feet and got away from Jesus Sucre allowing the runners to…