MINNESOTA — The 12 months is 2023, and Sonny Grey and Joey Gallo are nonetheless hurting the Yankees.
The excellence now may very well be that the two are sporting Twins uniforms in its place of pinstripes. Grey and Gallo flopped all through their respective stints throughout the Bronx, nevertheless they exacted some revenge on Monday at Goal Discipline in a 6-1 win for Minnesota.
Grey continued his scorching start to the season, dealing for seven innings. The fitting-hander restricted the Yankees to three hits, and he struck out eight whereas strolling two over 107 pitches. He moreover lowered his ERA to a microscopic 0.62.
“Spinning it,” Aaron Boone acknowledged when requested what made Grey so robust. “It’s what he does so correctly. He mixed in enough of his sinker to keep up us honest. However whether or not or not it was cutter, breaking ball, slider, he was on excessive of it. However we gotta have the power make that adjustment.
“Sonny’s throwing the ball nice. He’s off to an ideal begin.”
Gallo, within the meantime, hit his sixth dwelling run in his thirteenth recreation for the Twins after signing with them over the offseason. The fourth-inning solo shot off Greg Weissert was a no-doubter.
“He’s clearly acquired a ton of energy,” Boone acknowledged of Gallo sooner than the game. “He’s already hit some house runs this yr. He’s a man that usually controls the strike zone. So I don’t suppose it’s shocking to us essentially that he’s having some success right here.”
Gallo nor Grey expert so much success in New York.
Gallo spent 140 video video games with the Yankees from 2021-22 after they acquired him in a commerce with the Rangers. However his all-or-nothing methodology not at all found the relative stability that made him a two-time All-Star in Texas, as a result of the outfielder/first baseman slashed .159/.291/.368 with 25 homers, 46 RBI, 77 walks and 194 strikeouts.
Yankees followers booed Gallo usually last season, and the group dealt him to the Dodgers for pitching prospect Clayton Beeter in August.
Grey, within the meantime, joined the Yankees in a July 2017 commerce with the Athletics. A frontline starter in Oakland, he recorded a 4.51 ERA over 195.2 innings with the Yanks. Grey was demoted to the bullpen in direction of the highest of 2018, and the Yankees flipped him to the Reds that winter.
Cincinnati traded Grey to the Twins in March 2022.
“You pitch towards a former workforce, it at all times has a bit of little bit of an even bigger that means,” Grey acknowledged after Monday’s win. “You at all times really feel a bit of bit totally different going towards these groups. However having mentioned that, we have to give attention to us.”
Gallo didn’t appear by his locker sooner than or after the game when the Twins’ clubhouse was open to reporters.
Whereas the two ex-Yankees grabbed headlines, the Bombers’ struggling offense could be commanding consideration. The lineup has scored decrease than 4 runs in 9 of the ultimate 11 video video games. The Yankees have crossed the plate merely six events since putting up 9 runs on April 20.
“We’re the Yankees,” Boone acknowledged, “and we gotta discover a strategy to perform a little higher than that.”
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