Marcus Stroman came up big in the Yankees’ 8-3 win over the Braves, helping the Bombers avoid suffering their first four-game losing streak of season.
But manager Aaron Boone was looking for volunteers to extinguish the possibility of the season’s first four-game losing streak, and Marcus Stroman hosed down any embers of billowing hysteria among Yankees fans with an
Stroman surrendered a Marcell Ozuna first-inning homer, then held the Braves hitless following a second-inning Austin Riley single until Travis d’Arnaud’s opposite-field two-run home run with two outs in the seventh. Stroman held up his glove and applauded the fans who applauded him on his way off the mound into the dugout.
Marcus Stroman lets out a yell after giving up a homer in the seventh inning, but his strong outing was more than enough in the Yankees’ 8-3 win over the Braves.Stroman rode the momentum boost that Aaron Judge’s two-run home run in the first gave him and never looked back.“Just a competitor that wants to go out there and win,” Judge told The Post before the game. “He’s not afraid of anybody.
“I think that’s one thing that’s been amazing to watch is he’s unfazed by, kind of, the outside noise. Playing here in New York, you can maybe hear a lot of stuff from the fans, maybe if the offense isn’t picking you and give you the run support you can maybe get frustrated about that, but this guy shows up every single day and does his thing. And he has fun doing it, which is something I love and I think this whole team feeds off of.
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