Game 194 - New York Yankees at Texas Rangers

July 28 at The Stadium The Texas Rangers Play In in Arlington, TX
Fox Sports 1

The Yankees scored 21 runs and had a number of players with fantastic nights at the plate, but the real story was a guy who was called up from Triple-A just hours before the game began.

Diego Moreno came on in relief of Chris Capuano in the bottom of the first and in his second big league appearance proceeded to throw 5 1/3 no-hit innings in a 21-5 victory. Moreno was outstanding, permitting just a single walk while retiring 16 of the 17 batters he faced. But the reason Moreno entered the game at such an early stage is because Capuano was horrifying (2/3 IP, 5 BB, 5 ER).

I used to like Moreno only for the fact that he was part of the trade that sent A.J. Burnett away from New York forever, but now there's a second thing to like.

Anyway, the Yankees responded to the Rangers' five-run first with an 15-batter, 11-run top of the second and they led for the remainder of the night.

Some big offensive nights for several Yankees:

* Brett Gardner reached base six times, including a two-run home run against position player Adam Rosales in the ninth. Looking forward to Gardner-Rosales II, whenever it happens.

* Chris Young hit a grand slam and drove in a career-high five runs.

* Didi Gregorius had four hits, including a three-run triple in the second & Brendan Ryan added two doubles in one inning and drove in three runs on the night.

* Alex Rodriguez reached base five times, including an RBI-double in that ridiculous second inning.

And completely lost in all the offense was Adam Warren, who tossed three perfect innings to close out the blowout win.


Baseball Phrases!

The broadcast team of Kevin Burkhardt & Tom Verducci had a fine night as well:

"Ground ball specialist:"
"Grand salami"
"Up for a cup of coffee"
"The hit parade continues"
"Nugget"
"Stopper"
"Mound presence"
"Derek Jeter's shadow"
"Glove doctor"