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SEATTLE – His right ringlet bleeds like Chuck Wepner's mug in New Jersey, and lately he has affected grip. Dellin Betances puts the ball in the right hand at the end of the game.
"Try to do my best. It's a call for bids right now, I guess, "said Betances after escaping a fresh, basic jam to retain a 4-2 Yankees victory over the Mariners at Safeco Field on Saturday night. . "I am doing my best. I hope it heals. There is a lot of blood and the catch becomes uncomfortable. "
In the end, Denard Span and Kyle Seager were uncomfortable in the ninth inning, when Span hit a 98-mph pitfall and Seager slipped on a slider that caused another foul.
Invited to protect a two-point lead and allow the Yankees to stay three and a half games in front of the A's in the World Championship race, Betances gave Mitch Haniger a double. After Jean Segura was insane, Betances hit Robinson Cano with his left foot and forced him out of the match. A walk to Nelson Cruz charged the bases.
"They have a difficult alignment and you have to pay attention to your launches," said Betances. "I was careful with Cano and Cruz because [Cruz] has a lot of circuits and you do not want him to beat you there. "
Instead, Cruz walked and he became the last striker of the Mariners while Betances recorded his third save.
The victory allowed the A, who beat the Rangers, to come back from 3 ½ with 20 games to play. It also gives the Yankees a chance to sweep the three-game series on Sunday.
"I thought it was a well played game, and obviously it was a little tight in the ninth," said Aaron Boone. "I was proud of Dellin. I really thought about the quality of his field, even if he had problems, he continued to make quality shots. "
With Aroldis Chapman on the DL, Boone inserted Betances in the closest role when he is available and relied on Zach Britton and David Robertson before Betances.
The left-to-right combo dropped the six batters in seventh and eighth places and scored four strikeouts – three by Robertson in the eighth.
With a score of 2-2 in the seventh in Austin Romine, the opposite circuit on the right allowed the Yankees to take the lead, and the sacrifice of Gleyber Torres took the ninth place of Betances on a two-point stack.
It was the 10th circuit of the year of Romine and gave the Yankees 10 players with at least 10 circuits.
After two partial starts, Lance Lynn limited the Mariners to two points and three hits in six innings for the win.
"The homer [to Mike Zunino in the third] was the only bad pass of the night, "said Lynn, who gave RBI's single to Dee Gordon in the fifth. "He put a good shot and he got me."
Andrew McCutchen hit the fourth throw of Felix Hernandez's game inside the left-field fault for his second match in as many games. Giancarlo Stanton, who has three hits in 28 bats, made a run in the fifth end with a sacrifice flight.
As for Betances's blood on the finger, the problem does not seem to be improving, but the referees did not consider it serious enough to examine the bloody figure.
"Unfortunately, we are used to seeing him," Boone said of the blood Betances wipes on his pants. "Unfortunately, he sometimes has to face something. We try to stay as good as possible. "
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