Yankees Are Swept in Detroit for First Time in 21 Years - The New York Times

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Detroit outscored the Yankees by 15-5 in the three-game series. The Mets, meanwhile, had yet another game postponed.

DETROIT — Rookie Tarik Skubal pitched six shutout innings, and the Detroit Tigers beat the Yankees, 6-2, Sunday for their first home series sweep of New York in 21 years.

“We’ve been picking things up for a couple weeks now, but it is still great to see this group go out and sweep a team like the Yankees,” Tigers Manager A.J. Hinch said. “That’s a massive momentum boost heading into a road trip.”

The Yankees (29-24) were outscored by 15-5 with 36 strikeouts during the series and went 1 for 25 with runners in scoring position. Shortstop Gleyber Torres had two errors and third baseman Gio Urshela one that contributed to a four-run third inning and a 6-0 lead for Detroit (22-31).

“This was just a bad ending to a terrible weekend, and we got to get better,” Yankees Manager Aaron Boone.

Gary Sanchez made a baserunning blunder as the Yankees tried to rally in the eighth, stopping and jogging part of the way to second, then speeding up and getting thrown out.

“You’ve got to be aware of kind of the ballpark and surroundings,” Boone said. “Yeah, that’s a mental error.”

Michael King allowed four runs — two earned — three hits and two walks in two and a third innings in an erratic audition to replace injured Corey Kluber in the rotation that was no better than Deivi Garcia’s on Saturday.

The Yankees loaded the bases with two out in the ninth, but Michael Fulmer struck out Aaron Judge, the 12th strikeout by Tigers pitching.

“I know Fulmer’s got good fastball, hard slider, kind of just looks like the fastball,” Judge said. “Couple sliders took off on me and made some bad decisions, didn’t swing at the ones hanging up the at the top of the zone.”

Detroit had not swept a three-game home series from the Yankees since May 12-14, 2000, its first season at Comerica Park.

“What we’ve been putting out there right now is not our best, and it’s unacceptable,” Judge said.

Before the game, Boone said Triple-A first baseman Chris Gittens was “on our radar.”

Skubal (2-7) allowed three hits and three walks with eight strikeouts in his third big league win. Skubal became the first Tigers rookie to strike out at least eight batters in three straight starts.

“In my last few starts, I’ve been getting sharper as the game went on,” he said. “I’ve been trying to work on getting into that kind of rhythm right from the start instead of taking a few innings.”

Yet Another Postponement for Mets

Mets groundskeepers put a tarp over the outfield at Citi Field on Sunday. The Mets’ game against Atlanta was postponed.Kathy Willens/Associated Press

Rainouts have become routine for the Mets.

The series finale between the Mets and Atlanta Braves scheduled for Sunday night at Citi Field was postponed because of more wet weather in New York.

The teams will make it up as part of a single-admission doubleheader on July 26 beginning at 5:10 p.m. Both games will be set for seven innings.

It was the second washout of the series and third in five days for the N.L. East-leading Mets in a season filled with interruptions from the very beginning.

Two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom (3-2, 0.80 E.R.A.) had been slated to pitch for the Mets against Max Fried (2-2, 4.63) in a nationally televised game on ESPN. But with rain falling throughout an unseasonably chilly afternoon in Queens and a forecast of showers deep into the night, the game was called a little more than 90 minutes before the scheduled first pitch.

The teams were also rained out Friday night. That game will be made up in a single-admission doubleheader on June 21 starting at 5:10 p.m., also with seven-inning games.

The Mets won by 13-2 on Saturday night, the only game of the scheduled three-game series that was played.

The depleted Mets (25-20) begin a nine-game road trip Monday night at Arizona, which ended a 13-game losing streak Sunday with a 9-2 win over St. Louis.

The Mets have played four fewer games than any other major league team. They have had seven games postponed by bad weather, plus the suspension against the Marlins. Even the first scheduled series of the season was wiped out in Washington because of Covid-19 issues for the Nationals.

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Hendrick Motorsports passes Petty Enterprises in all-time wins for team owners - NASCAR

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Hendrick Motorsports passed Petty Enterprises on NASCAR’s all-time wins list for team owners Sunday night, with Kyle Larson breaking the tie by providing the organization’s 269th Cup Series victory, a Coca-Cola 600 triumph at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Rick Hendrick, 71, celebrated at the 1.5-mile track located nearly the same distance away from his team’s sprawling campus, a hometown venue where his team has now won 21 times. The Charlotte-based automotive mogul and businessman took the top spot from the Pettys, one of the first families of NASCAR who formed one of stock-car racing’s earliest powerhouses.

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“I am proud to congratulate Rick Hendrick and all of Hendrick Motorsports on breaking the all-time wins record for a NASCAR Cup Series race team, long held by the legendary Petty Enterprises team,” said Jim France, NASCAR’s chairman and CEO. “With nearly 40 years of excellence, Hendrick Motorsports has set the gold standard for race team success. Rick Hendrick has already cemented his legacy as a NASCAR Hall of Famer, and now adds another incredible accomplishment to an exemplary NASCAR career.”

Ties between the two organizations still bind them together. Hendrick Motorsports launched as All-Star Racing in 1984, the same year Richard Petty scored the last of his record 200 wins. Hendrick was enshrined in the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2017, preceded by four inductees who made up the core of Petty Enterprises — father-son drivers Lee (2011) and Richard Petty (2010), crew chief Dale Inman (2012) and engine builder Maurice Petty (2014).

“I have tremendous respect for the Petty family and what they’ve accomplished,” Hendrick said. “Someone will probably break my record, so it’s just — records are made to be broken.

Both teams also share common ground in the way their win totals accumulated, with two drivers each amassing the primary share of their victories. Patriarch Lee Petty netted all 54 of his Cup Series wins for the family-owned team, and Richard Petty contributed all but four of his 200 wins overall. Twenty drivers — including all four on Hendrick’s current roster — have added to Hendrick Motorsports’ record tally, but two standouts lead the way. Jeff Gordon’s 93 wins rank third on NASCAR’s all-time list, and Jimmie Johnson’s 83 wins are tied with the legendary Cale Yarborough for sixth.

When Hendrick announced the creation of his new racing team in January 1984, he expressed confidence that All-Star Racing would win “three or four races and finish high in the Winston Cup point race.” Doubters seized on the brazen prediction, even with Modified hotshot Geoff Bodine and veteran crew chief Harry Hyde forming the nucleus of the team. In a full-circle twist, Petty was the top candidate to be Hendrick’s first driver. “I thought we had a deal,” Hendrick said. “It didn’t come together.”

The group nearly ceased operations shortly after it started, but Bodine’s stirring and surprising breakthrough win at Martinsville Speedway that April kept the fledgling No. 5 team afloat. Two more wins followed that first year, fulfilling Hendrick’s vision and providing a foundation for the 266 wins that would come next.

“It feels good. I can’t believe we got 269,” Hendrick said. “It was kind of neat to — I want any one of them to win, but the first one was 5 and this one was the number 5. I just remember how close it was not to finish out the first year.”

Hendrick Motorsports had previously supplanted Petty Enterprises atop the list of most team owner championships in NASCAR’s top division. Hendrick holds a 13-10 lead in that category, with four series champions on its all-time roster — seven-time champ Johnson, four-time title winner Gordon and one-time title winners Terry Labonte and Chase Elliott.

Elliott, the defending Cup Series champ, is part of a talented young driver lineup that has rejuvenated Hendrick’s performance this season. Through 15 Cup Series races in 2021, all four drivers have won races, virtually clinching berths in the 16-driver postseason field.

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