Game 30: Yanks (Schmidt) @ O's (Rodriguez) 6:35 PM EDT

Takes the cutter outside 3-2, Schmidt at 21 pitches already.

Hangs a slider right down the middle, and Schmidt is lucky it's not 3-0.
Mountcastle gets under it to right, Soto goes back a few steps and catches, inning over.

22 pitches in the first for Schmidt.
1-0 O's, going top 2.

Stanton, Wells and Torres for the Yanks vs. Rodriguez.
Odd that with Verdugo out and Grisham forced into the lineup, Boone goes to Wells over Trevino.
Rodriguez gave up a single in his half of the 1st, throwing just 15 pitches.

Slider outside, ball 1 to Stanton.
Fangraphs calls that slider a cutter, but it's a slider.
2nd slider tapped to the right of the mound, Rodriguez fields and flips to 1st, 1 down

Rodriguez misses outside with a curve and two FBs
Then a get it over FB at 96 up in the middle of the zone, 3-1
FB up and in, inside outs to deep left center, falls in the gap for a 1 out double.
FB runs inside corner at 96, Torres pops it to right, Santander catches, Wells holds, 2 down.

Well done. FB at the top inner 3rd, spoiled, just like Keith Hernandez in his prime
FB outside would've been ball 4, but Cabrera doesn't risk the call, fouls it off.
FB inside at 97, might have been ball four, ties him up, the pop to Mountcastle near the O's dugout is out #3
Yanks waste the 1-out double.

Bottom 2, 1-0 O's.
15 pitches for Rodriguez in the 2nd, thanks to the 2 pitch out by Stanton, and 1st pitch flyout by Torres.
31 pitches through 2.

Mullins, Westburg and Cowser for the O's

1-1 on Mullins leading off.
FB outside at 94. 2-1
FB waist high, outside corner, fouled, 2-2
Cutter up in the zone in the middle, fouled.
Curve down the middle fools Mullins somehow, he starts and stops then restarts, too late. Misses it for the K.
1 down.