In a heavyweight match against the AL East foe Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night, the New York Yankees were able to get Gerrit Cole back on the mound, as if their 2024 campaign couldn’t get any better.
With a 51-24 record going into the game, the Yankees had a great chance to pull further ahead of the pack while trying to raise their league-best win-loss total.
But even though they performed some heroics to force extra innings, they ultimately lost by a single run, 7–6.
Nonetheless, the Yankees did not lose any time in making a roster move after their Wednesday loss to the Orioles. Less than twenty-four hours after calling relief pitcher Anthony Misiewicz up to the big-league roster, the current AL East leader optioned him back to Triple-A, according to Yankees PR on Twitter (X).
Misiewicz received his first trip to the major leagues on Wednesday and he pitched a very important ninth inning during their 7-6 defeat to the Orioles. He was called upon by manager Aaron Boone to try and keep the Yankees’ deficit to just one run in the top of the ninth, and to his credit, he delivered.
However, Anthony Misiewicz’s inning of work did not go as smoothly as he would have hoped, but he got the job done regardless.
The Yankees reliever got himself into a bases-loaded jam after he allowed a single to Jorge Mateo, a walk to Adley Rutschman and a single to Ryan Mountcastle, but he rebounded by striking out Austin Hays and then getting Anthony Santander to fly out to end the inning.
There is a bit of uncertainty yet as to who the Yankees will be calling up to replace Misiewicz’s place in the 26-man roster. Fans are calling for Agustin Ramirez to be brought up to the majors, but he only recently arrived in Triple-A.
Misiewicz will stay on the Yankees’ 40-man roster, which gives him the opportunity to eventually make a trip back to the major leagues if his fellow relievers don’t improve. With 30.2 innings pitched for the Yankees’ Triple-A affiliate, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, the 29-year-old southpaw is now boasting a 3.23 ERA.
