Solid pitching, solid hitting, and yet another decidedly better-than-solid performance from Aaron Judge led the Yankees to a 5-2 win today in Tampa. Alas, we can’t start the regular season quite yet, but a team-wide performance like the one we saw today certainly makes us wish we could.
JP Sears got the start for the Yankees today and acquitted himself quite well. As I wrote earlier today in the PSA pregame post (and as David Cone noted on the YES broadcast), Sears is an aggressive pitcher who’s going to throw a lot of strikes. He certainly put that trait on display today as he cruised through the first two innings, retiring the first six Phillies batters, striking out two.