From the start, something was amiss. Even in his scoreless innings, Jordan Montgomery put multiple runners on base.
“I just wasn’t commanding the fastball,” the Yankees’ left-hander said. “I was throwing changeups, curveballs, sliders for strikes, more accurately than fastballs, which just can’t happen.”
It was his poor fastball command that led to one of the more disappointing outings of his brief career.
Handed a five-run lead, Montgomery gave four back, failed to even make it through the fifth inning, and allowed a career-high 10 hits, walked two and threw 86 pitches, 57 for strikes, over 4 ¹/u2083 mostly ineffective frames.