Cy Youngs? So what?
The Yankees faced the Tigers and Max Scherzer on Monday, the first of three straight Cy Young Award winners, and won their third consecutive game, beating Detroit, 2-1.
It was far from easy, as the Tigers' defense repeatedly robbed the Yankees of hits and runs, but Brandon McCarthy was impressive once again as the Yankees moved within a game of the idle Blue Jays for the second AL wild-card spot.
McCarthy lasted just 5 ²/₃ innings, but limited the potent Tigers' lineup to just one unearned run, and the heavily worked Yankee bullpen provided excellent relief.
A 34-pitch second limited the length of McCarthy's outing, but he repeatedly got out of tough spots, like when he fanned Alex Avila and Eugenio Suarez after loading the bases with one out in the second.
Even when McCarthy surrendered the unearned run in the fifth, he limited the damage by getting Miguel Cabrera to ground out to end the inning with Ian Kinsler representing the tying run at second.
McCarthy, who was 3-10 with a 5.01 ERA when the Yankees acquired him from the Diamondbacks on July 6, improved to 4-0 with a 2.08 ERA in five starts since.
Matt Thornton protected the one-run lead in the sixth by getting Avila to ground out to first, where Chase Headley was forced to play just his third game because Mark Teixeira was scratched with what the Yankees described as "light-headedness."
In the seventh, Adam Warren was the next to face Cabrera with the tying run in scoring position and Warren got the slugger to ground out on a slow comebacker to end the inning.
Shawn Kelley and David Robertson provided drama-free innings of relief to finish the game. Robertson saved his third consecutive game.
The fact the Yankees were up such a slim margin was more a credit to the Tigers' sparkling play in the field than anything Scherzer did.
The Yankees loaded the bases when they opened the bottom of the third with three straight singles by Ichiro Suzuki, Brett Gardner and Derek Jeter.
Jacoby Ellsbury then sent a booming fly ball to center, where Ezequiel Carrera made a spectacular diving catch near the warning track, even drawing applause from the Stadium crowd. It turned what would have likely been a bases-clearing triple into a sacrifice fly that gave the Yankees a 1-0 lead.
Carlos Beltran followed with a liner second baseman Kinsler grabbed for the second out before Brian McCann delivered a run-scoring single to right for a 2-0 lead.
Headley then had an RBI single taken away by a fantastic play by Kinsler on a ball that looked destined for right field that instead turned into another out.
In the bottom of the fifth, Ellsbury was stranded at third as Kinsler ranged far to his left to start an inning-ending double play.
"Pitchers are human," Joe Girardi said before the game of the prospect of facing Scherzer, David Price and Justin Verlander back-to-back-to-back. "It still comes down to making pitches. We know they're outstanding, but they have their days when they're not quite sharp. We have to take advantage of their mistakes."
The Yankees staged a bit of a two-out rally in the first with a single by Ellsbury and a walk by Beltran, but McCann flied out to center for the third out.
A defensive shift by the Yankees helped stifle a rally in the third. With Cabrera on first and two out, Victor Martinez lined what looked to be a single to right, but second baseman Stephen Drew, playing in medium right field, jumped to snare it.
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