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Monday night's game against the Angels had a chance to be the most demoralizing loss of the Yankees' season, even amid a fivegame losing streak that included getting onehit by the A's and a 17inning stretch where they failed to offense had rightly come under fire for failing to uphold their end of the bargain as more than half the lineup languished below the Mendoza can therefore imagine the anxiety produced by the bats finally coming alive in the series opener against the Angels, only for the pitching staff to squander three separate was admittedly difficult to muster even a mote of optimism after Mike Trout hit the second of his leadaltering home runs Ryan Weathers Jersey, leaving the Yankees in a tworun deficit heading into the ninth Aaron Judge and his pair of home runs not due to bat again barring a lengthy , Jazz Chisholm off with a single against closer Jordan Romano to offer the slightest glimmer of hope, bringing Trent Grisham to the plate as the possible tying run, the struggling center fielder having already impacted the game with a pinchhit, threerun blast in the has been a twopitch pitcher for the last four years, throwing the fourseamer and slider in roughly equal proportions, and he starts this AB with the pitch is over the plate, but sails a bit on Romano to land above the strike , elevated fourseamers are tough pitches to lay off for the hitter because of how well you see the ball out of the hand, but Grisham doesn't even flinch as he watches it into the catcher's glove for ball sticks with the fastball given that the previous pitch didn't miss by all that one's also decently close to the zone, about kneehigh but a half a foot off the plate again, there's not even a twitch out of Grisham as he takes it for ball 's pretty clear between his previous two AB's and these first two pitches that Grisham is seeing the ball watching Grisham spit on the last two fastballs, Romano tries to steal a strike with the backdoor slider to get back into the misses his spot, but it's still a decent pitch, landing just an inch or two below the zone for a 's actually a hell of a take by Grisham Gerrit Cole Jersey, the pitch in the zone right up until the last five feet before home plate when it's downward break tilts it below the bottom edge of the , Grisham is still able to identify this as a ball almost immediately out of Romano's hand, despite how long it looked like a in the count 30, Romano has to throw a heater down the pipe to avoid putting the tying run on base with no straightforward here: no reason to give the green light and risk a double play ball Grisham is taking all the way knowing he still has the count leverage fully in his favor if it gets to , Romano doesn't give in with the count 31 and throw another heater in the tries to throw a chase slider below the zone hoping for a whiff or, better yet, for Grisham to roll over a weak , he leaves this breaking ball right in a lefty's wheelhouse down and in, and Grisham does not 's awesome to see his mechanics and approach in this gets his front foot down early in case it's a , he holds that front hip square and keeps his weight back, allowing him to be right on time to the offspeed while still maintaining a solid base to drive it with tells me that Grisham is almost sitting on a mistake slider in the zone in this situation Roger Maris Jersey.