Yankees starter Sonny Gray lost his voice on Wednesday while cheering his teammates during a four-run rally that defeated the Boston Red Sox.
On Friday, Gray’s voice was back, but his stuff was largely absent. He had it only briefly against a team he really wanted to beat — the Oakland Athletics, who last summer traded him to the Yankees for three prospects, two of them injured.
Gray’s meltdown came in the second inning, and it came unexpectedly, after a quick and tidy first inning in which he needed just 14 pitches to retire the side.
But five pitches into the second inning, Gray and the Yankees fell behind, 1-0, as Khris Davis sent a ball soaring into the distant right-field bleachers.