MILWAUKEE — Even when he doesn't look like the Cy Young or the Rookie of the Year candidate he has turned into, Masahiro Tanaka has enough to win.
Friday night against the Brewers at Miller Park, Tanaka breezed through the first five innings and at times toyed with the Milwaukee hitters. Allowing two runs in the sixth was a sign Tanaka wasn't going deep into the game and he was lifted in the seventh with one out and runners at the corners.
Thanks to fellow rookie Yangervis Solarte's three-run homer that highlighted a four-run fourth against Yovani Gallardo, in which Brian Roberts delivered a two-out RBI double, and mostly solid relief work from Adam Warren and David Robertson, Tanaka was the winner in a 5-3 victory that was witnessed by 40,123.
Carlos Beltran doubled leading off the eighth and scored on Mark Teixeira's ground out for the Yankees' final run, while a Mark Reynolds home run off Robertson in the ninth was the bullpen's only blemish.
In 6 ¹/₃ innings, which ties Tanaka's shortest outing in seven starts, he allowed two runs, seven hits, walked one and fanned seven. He is 5-0 and hasn't lost a regular-season start since Aug 19, 2012. In that span he is 33-0 in 41 starts.
"He has been really, really good and obviously you want to get this series started off on the right foot,'' Joe Girardi said before the 19-15 Yankees won their third straight game. "This is another team that has not seen him and hopefully it works to his advantage.''
While his split-fingered fastball remained filthy and the fastball was thrown with terrific placement, a weakness in Tanaka's game was unearthed when he put a bat in his hands.
Tanaka struck out swinging in the third and fourth innings and looking in the seventh.
The game was briefly delayed in the sixth when a fan came out of the stands on the third-base side and approached Derek Jeter. As the fan got real close to the shortstop security guards took him down with a fierce tackle from behind.
The Brewers, who started Friday night tied with the Giants for the best record (22-13) in the NL, dropped their seventh in the last 11 games.
Robertson recorded the final three outs for his sixth save in as many chances.
Tanaka blanked the Brewers through five innings, but ran into trouble in the sixth when the hosts scored two runs and shaved the Yankees' lead to 4-2.
Carlos Gomez and Scooter Gennett opened with consecutive doubles that produced a run and Jonathan Lucroy's single scored Gennett before Tanaka recorded an out. Then he got two with one pitch when Aramis Ramirez hit a 3-2 pitch on the ground to Jeter to start a 6-3 double play. Tanaka followed that by catching Reynolds looking.
The Brewers chased Tanaka in the seventh, when back-to-back singles by Jean Segura and Logan Schafer put runners at the corners with one out.
Warren surfaced from the bullpen to face pinch-hitter Lyle Overbay. He whiffed on a 3-2 pitch that Brian McCann turned into a double play when he threw to second to catch Schafer attempting to swipe a base.
Girardi stuck with Warren to pitch the eighth over Shawn Kelley and he recorded a perfect frame to give Robertson a three-run bulge to work with. Robertson struck out the side, but did let up the Reynolds long ball.
After threatening to score in the first inning, the Brewers, at times, looked hopeless against Tanaka across the following four innings. From the second through the fifth, Tanaka allowed singles to Gomez in the third and Ramirez in the fourth and neither advanced past first base.
Solarte woke up the crowd in the fourth inning with a three-run homer to right. Schafer almost made a sensational catch on the blast with a vault to the top of the fence.
Until McCann lined a one-out single to center in the fourth, Gallardo hadn't allowed a hit and just two baserunners via walks. One of them was to Beltran leading off the inning. McCann's single moved Beltran to second and Solarte sent the next pitch high toward right field. Timing the jump perfectly, Schafer came close to grabbing the ball, but ran out of room and the Yankees had a 3-0 lead.
It was Solarte's second homer of the year and was followed by Brett Gardner's single to short and Roberts' double down the right-field line that scored Gardner for a 4-0 advantage.
The Brewers put Tanaka in a first-inning bind when Gomez walked, stole second and went to third on Gennett's bunt. But Tanaka popped up to short and Ramirez whiffed to strand Gomez.
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