CLEVELAND — The New York Yankees received’t have reliever Ian Hamilton for the remainder of the AL Championship Sequence towards Cleveland after he injured his left calf in Sport 3 on Thursday evening.
The AL East champions changed Hamilton with Mark Leiter Jr. The transfer was made simply hours earlier than Sport 4 on Friday.
Hamilton obtained harm whereas the right-hander lined first base within the sixth inning. The Yankees wound up blowing a 5-3 lead within the ninth and shedding 7-5 to the Guardians, who obtained a game-tying homer from rookie Jhonkensy Noel within the ninth and David Fry’s walk-off within the tenth.
New York leads the sequence 2-1.
Hamilton went 0-1 with a 3.82 ERA in 35 video games for the Yankees this season. He missed almost three months with a strained facet muscle. He returned in mid-September and pitched within the ALDS towards Kansas Metropolis.
Within the sixth, Guardians rookie Daniel Schneemann hit a grounder to first baseman Jon Berti, who bobbled the ball. Hamilton hustled over to the bottom, and appeared to step awkwardly. He threw a wild warmup pitch earlier than supervisor Aaron Boone changed him.
The workforce introduced he had calf tightness. The transfer makes Hamilton ineligible to return for the World Sequence, ought to the Yankees advance.
Leiter went 2-1 with a 4.98 ERA in 21 video games with the Yankees, who acquired him in a July commerce from the Cubs. The 33-year-old was 2-4 with a 4.21 ERA in 39 video games for Chicago.
