Howard Simmons/New York Daily News Yankees reliever Adam Warren needs a new baseball after giving up a longball to Oakland’s Brandon Moss. Mark Teixeira’s return gave the Yankees a much-needed power boost Tuesday night, but it still wasn’t enough to spark the sagging Bombers.
Brandon Moss bashed two homers, including a go-ahead shot in the top of the 10th against Adam Warren, lifting the A’s to a 5-2 win over the Yankees, who lost for the fourth time in five games.
Teixeira returned after a cortisone shot in his ailing right wrist sidelined him for two days, putting the Yankees on the board with an early RBI single and snapping a tie game in the seventh with a solo homer, his team-high 10th of the year.
But two days after David Robertson suffered a ninth-inning meltdown, it was Dellin Betances who failed to hold the lead this time, allowing a run in the eighth to let a potential win slip away and give the American League’s best team new life.
Warren – the other superb member of the bullpen this season – gave up three runs in the 10th, including Moss’ second homer of the night, the first homer allowed by Warren since April 18.
The bullpen implosion may have been the primary culprit for the loss, but the offense continued to leave the pitching staff with little-to-no wiggle room, failing to crack the three-run mark for the fifth straight game and sixth time in the past seven. The Yankees are 6-19 this season when scoring three runs or fewer.
Teixeira’s home run was only the second in the past eight games for the Yankees, who didn’t post another extra-base hit Tuesday night.
With Teixeira battling his wrist issues and Carlos Beltran on the disabled list with a bone spur in his elbow, the offense has become a major issue for the Yankees, who are 7-9 in their past 16 contests.
Hiroki Kuroda took a tough no-decision after 6.2 superb innings, holding the A’s to one run on two hits and one walk.
Scott Kazmir matched Kuroda most of the way, allowing two runs on six hits and two walks, striking out 10 over 6.1 innings.
Since their five-homer explosion on May 17 against the Pirates, the Yankees had gone deep a mere five times over the past 15 games, compiling only 16 doubles and three triples during the same period.
That’s a total of 24 extra-base hits – 1.6 per game – a major factor for the Yankees’ 7-8 record during that stretch. The Yankees’ 149 extra-base hits this season rank 13th in the AL.
“Some days we’ve scored runs, other days we haven’t,” Joe Girardi said before the game. “It’s been a little bit tougher. It’s been up and down is what it’s been. It hasn’t been consistent where we’re scoring five runs a day, four runs a day. We’ve had some inconsistency.”
That trend continued Tuesday night.
The Yankees took a quick lead in the first inning, though it took three hits – all singles, naturally – to score the game’s first run.
Howard Simmons/New York Daily News Mark Teixeira looks good on his solo homer in the 6th, but the Yankees can’t muster much offense. Brett Gardner opened the frame with a single, then Jacoby Ellsbury followed with a one-out hit. Teixeira lifted a pop fly to shallow right field, dunking it inside the line for a single, scoring Gardner to make it 1-0.
Kuroda was dominant early on, facing the minimum 12 batters through four innings thanks to a pair of double plays that ended the second and fourth innings.
Moss, who flied out to deep center in his first at-bat, got enough to deposit a 3-2 sinker over the center-field wall, his 14th home run of the season tying the game at 1.
Kuroda bounced back and retired the next six A’s hitters, keeping the game tied in the sixth.
Teixeira snapped the tie with one big swing, proving that – at least for the moment – his wrist isn’t an issue as he launched a 1-0 fastball over the wall in left-center to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead.
Kuroda retired the first two batters in the seventh, but Girardi didn’t want to see another Kuroda-Moss matchup, summoning Betances from the bullpen.
Betances struck out Moss to end the inning, but the A’s got to him in the eighth as Alberto Callaspo drew a two-out walk, setting up Stephen Vogt’s pinch-hit double, squaring the game at 2 in a rare failure by the Yankees’ stud reliever.
Robertson tossed a perfect ninth to preserve the tie in his first outing since Sunday’s disastrous blown save, but Warren’s horrendous 10th inning left the Yankees staring at another one that got away.
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