

He nearly hit a game-tying homer Tuesday in Tampa, hit two more the next night, got the game-winning hit and narrowly avoided an arbitration hearing by agreeing to a one-year, $19 million deal at 12:45 pm on Friday afternoon.
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Ninety-three minutes after Stanton’s blast got the no-hitter portion of the proceedings done, the Yankees completed a compelling June series when Judge’s highly eventful week continued. It sparked a comeback and ended a stretch where the Yankees went 280 pitches without a hit spanning 16 1/3 innings, the longest hitless skid for a team since 1961 according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Urquidy’s 91st pitch betrayed him and delighted the Yankees when Stanton blasted a fastball to the netting above Monument Park in center field, ending any dreams of a second straight no-hitter. It’s special, but I think if you throw a no-hitter, in general, it’s going to be special.”Īnd for 6 1/3 innings on Sunday, the pitches coming out of Jose Urquidy’s right hand were doing what he desired, though there were a few more close calls with a few warning track flyballs and shortstop Jeremy Pena ranging several steps to his left to retire DJ LeMahieu.Īt 3:51 p.m. “The fact that it was here in Yankee Stadium, that’s a really good lineup over there. “A no-hitter is pretty special either way, anywhere you do it,” Pressly said. Nineteen years and 14 days after Roy Oswalt’s injury created the six-pitcher combined no-hitter on June 11, 2003, Javier threw the first 115 of Houston’s no-hit pitches, getting 13 strikeouts on those.Īnd when Pressly closed out it by getting Giancarlo Stanton on a harmless ground ball the Astros celebrated along with anyone in attendance who had never seen a no-hitter before. (though baseball-reference’s boxscore has 151). It was a three-pitcher no-hitter, giving the Astros two of those games over the Yankees with a combined nine pitchers and featured 150 pitches by Houston’s pitching staff in each game. pitcher Hector Neris, and starting pitcher Cristian Javier celebrate after a combined no-hitter against the New York Yankees.

Houston Astros players, from left, relief pitcher Ryan Pressly, catcher Martin Maldonado, relief.
