NEW YORK — The Luis Gil hype train kept chugging along Thursday afternoon at Yankee Stadium. The right-hander was once again brilliant in the Bombers’ 5-0 win over the Mariners to salvage a four-game split. Gil hurled 6 1/3 shutout innings, racking up eight strikeouts and allowing just one hit following up his record-setting 14-strikeout performance with another stellar outing. The 25-year-old ...
Also, Shohei Ohtani hit his first walk-off as a Dodger, and Kody Clemens' bat came through for the Phillies.
It is forgotten to time that the Yankees did not pursue Orlando Hernandez with the fervor that they had his half-brother, Livan, in 1996. And that Hideki Irabu was greeted with way more fanfare in 1997 than El Duque would be a year later. After all, Hernandez had been banned from Cuban baseball because authorities were worried he would defect like Livan. Thus, El Duque had not pitched for more than a year when the Yankees signed him in March 1998 to a four-year, $6.6 million contract. It is why, when he finally did arrive two months into what already was feeling like a magical season, Hernandez became kind of a gift out of nowhere. He was poised in a way that Irabu was not. He possessed a bevy
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