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Worth the wait: Sonny Gray's 1-hitter is his first complete game in 8 years
CLEVELAND — Sonny Gray didn't know if he would throw a complete game again. On Friday night, he did that and was one pitch away from a no-hitter. Gray allowed only one hit and struck out a season-high 11 in St. Louis' 5-0 victory over the Cleveland Guardians . It is his seventh complete game, but first since 2017 with the Yankees. It was also the fifth shutout in Gray's 13-year big-league career, with the last coming when he was with the Athletics in 2015.
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Worth the wait: Sonny Gray's 1-hitter is his first complete game in 8 years
CLEVELAND (AP) — Sonny Gray didn't know if he would throw a complete game again. On Friday night, he did that and was one pitch away from a no-hitter. Gray allowed only one hit and struck out a season-high 11 in St. Louis' 5-0 victory over the Cleveland Guardians. Advertisement It is his seventh complete game, but first since 2017 with the Yankees. It was also the fifth shutout in Gray's 13-year big-league career, with the last coming when he was with the Athletics in 2015. 'I did it a lot earlier in my career and it's been a while,' Gray said. 'You don't know if you would be able to do it, especially the way the games kind of went, and especially with me like I don't throw over 100 pitches very often.' The right-hander, who improved to 8-2 on the season, needed only 89 pitches against the Guardians. It is the first time since 2021 (Atlanta's Max Fried vs. Baltimore) that a pitcher has had a complete-game shutout and thrown less than 90 pitches. Gray's most taxing inning was the third, when he had 12 pitches. He had two innings where he threw eight or fewer pitches. Advertisement Gray's only bad pitch came with two outs in the fifth inning, when Nolan Jones had a base hit to right field on a sweeper. 'I knew the innings were kind of moving right along. I did know that I was perfect through that long. I made a good pitch there when the guy got the hit, so I was fine with that," Gray said. 'When I was going out for the ninth it felt like just another inning, which was nice.' Gray had 19 first-pitch strikes to the 28 batters he faced and of his 66 strikes, 16 were swings and misses. He retired 15 of Cleveland's hitters on three pitches or fewer, including six on the first pitch. 'When you keep getting 0-1, the other team feels pressure of that. I think that helped in our benefit of just being able to attack these guys and get the quick outs,' said catcher Pedro Pagés, who got the Cardinals on the board with a home run to lead off the third inning. Advertisement Gray also stymied Cleveland with a familiar face in the Guardians' dugout. Manager Stephen Vogt caught Gray for 45 games, more than any other catcher in Gray's career. 'Whatever he wanted, he had everything working," Vogt said. "The only pitch he left in the strike zone was when Nolan got the base hit. That was an unbelievable performance by Sonny.' Gray and Vogt were roommates in the minors in the Athletics' system, and still share a close bond and mutual respect. 'Through my warmup pitches before the first inning, I had some time and kind of looked up. I know where Vogty stands, and he was kind of looking at me. So I was kind of looking at him and we kind of stared at each other for a second, and I gave him a little head nod," Gray said. "We have so many memories together. It's just kind of crazy how this game does that sometimes.' __ AP MLB: Joe Reedy, The Associated Press
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4 hours ago
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Chisholm homers in 500th regular season game, has third-most homers and steals in first 500 games
NEW YORK (AP) — Jazz Chisholm Jr. appeared in his 500th game and joined some select company. Chisholm homered into the second deck in right field Friday night to give the Yankees the lead in their 3-0 victory over the Athletics and giving him 89 career homers to go with 109 steals. Chisholm's homer off Mitch Spence in the second inning gave him the third-most homers and steals within the first 500 career games, trailing Eric Davis (107 homers, 190 steals) and former Yankee Alfonso Soriano (97 homers, 121 steals). Davis played his 500th game on Sept. 15, 1988, for the Cincinnati Reds. He finished his career in 2001 as a member of the San Francisco Giants with career totals of 282 homers, 349 steals in 1,626 games. 'That's pretty cool,' Chisholm said. 'I didn't know that. I just be out there playing and having fun but the first time I met Eric Davis, he's one of the favorite players I watched when I was a kid,' Chisholm said. 'So like watching his highlights and watching the way he plays, I feel like Byron Buxton is the closest person to him and watching Byron is just like watching E.D. (Eric Davis).' Soriano played his 500th game on Sept. 27, 2003, during his penultimate regular-season contest with the Yankees before being traded to Texas in the offseason for Alex Rodriguez. Soriano finished his career in 2014 with the Yankees with totals of 412 homers and 289 steals in 1,975 games. 'I got to meet Alfonso in Miami,' Chisholm said. 'I played with his little cousin. So for me talking about Alfonso and Eric and watching them as kids, those were the guys that I was kind of compared to in my swings even though (I'm) like small, (have) some power and some speed but yeah it's kind of sick to have same accomplishments.' After hitting Spence's cutter, Chisholm shrugged his shoulders as he rounded third and did a little shuffle before crossing the plate. Chisholm debuted Sept. 1, 2020, for the Miami Marlins and has 23 homers and 28 steals in 97 games for the Yankees, who acquired him last July 27 and moved him to third base. Chisholm's homer marked the 12th time in his career he went deep in consecutive games. It also gave him five homers since returning from a right oblique strain June 3, including one that stopped the Yankees' 30-inning scoreless streak on June 18. ___ AP MLB:
Washington Post
4 hours ago
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Chisholm homers in 500th regular season game, has third-most homers and steals in first 500 games
NEW YORK — Jazz Chisholm Jr. appeared in his 500th game and joined some select company. Chisholm homered into the second deck in right field Friday night to give the Yankees the lead in their 3-0 victory over the Athletics and giving him 89 career homers to go with 109 steals.
Winnipeg Free Press
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Chisholm homers in 500th regular season game, has third-most homers and steals in first 500 games
NEW YORK (AP) — Jazz Chisholm Jr. appeared in his 500th game and joined some select company. Chisholm homered into the second deck in right field Friday night to give the Yankees the lead in their 3-0 victory over the Athletics and giving him 89 career homers to go with 109 steals. Chisholm's homer off Mitch Spence in the second inning gave him the third-most homers and steals within the first 500 career games, trailing Eric Davis (107 homers, 190 steals) and former Yankee Alfonso Soriano (97 homers, 121 steals). Davis played his 500th game on Sept. 15, 1988, for the Cincinnati Reds. He finished his career in 2001 as a member of the San Francisco Giants with career totals of 282 homers, 349 steals in 1,626 games. 'That's pretty cool,' Chisholm said. 'I didn't know that. I just be out there playing and having fun but the first time I met Eric Davis, he's one of the favorite players I watched when I was a kid,' Chisholm said. 'So like watching his highlights and watching the way he plays, I feel like Byron Buxton is the closest person to him and watching Byron is just like watching E.D. (Eric Davis).' Soriano played his 500th game on Sept. 27, 2003, during his penultimate regular-season contest with the Yankees before being traded to Texas in the offseason for Alex Rodriguez. Soriano finished his career in 2014 with the Yankees with totals of 412 homers and 289 steals in 1,975 games. 'I got to meet Alfonso in Miami,' Chisholm said. 'I played with his little cousin. So for me talking about Alfonso and Eric and watching them as kids, those were the guys that I was kind of compared to in my swings even though (I'm) like small, (have) some power and some speed but yeah it's kind of sick to have same accomplishments.' Thursdays Keep up to date on sports with Mike McIntyre's weekly newsletter. After hitting Spence's cutter, Chisholm shrugged his shoulders as he rounded third and did a little shuffle before crossing the plate. Chisholm debuted Sept. 1, 2020, for the Miami Marlins and has 23 homers and 28 steals in 97 games for the Yankees, who acquired him last July 27 and moved him to third base. Chisholm's homer marked the 12th time in his career he went deep in consecutive games. It also gave him five homers since returning from a right oblique strain June 3, including one that stopped the Yankees' 30-inning scoreless streak on June 18. ___ AP MLB:
