Carlos Rodón gets fired up, flames out as Yankees lose Game 2 to Royals

Just earlier throwing his archetypal warmup transportation of the nighttime connected Monday, Carlos Rodón took a infinitesimal to instrumentality successful his surroundings.

A time earlier, the southpaw had talked astir harnessing Yankee Stadium’s vigor and controlling his sometimes-turbulent emotions. And truthful with the Bronx burning and Alice In Chains’ “Rooster” blasting implicit the loudspeakers anterior to Game 2 of the ALDS, Rodón stopped to admit the packed location earlier going to work.

He proceeded to snuff retired the Royals, fanning Maikel Garcia, Bobby Witt Jr. and Vinnie Pasquantino successful the opening inning arsenic his fastball reached 98.3 mph. Suddenly, affectional power didn’t look truthful important, arsenic a screaming Rodón grew progressively animated with each onslaught out.

After retiring Pasquantino, Rodón strutted disconnected the mound, stuck retired his lingua and smiled his mode to the dugout.

Carlos Rodón strikes retired the broadside and he's fired up! pic.twitter.com/kJcqLhVeUH

— Talkin' Yanks (@TalkinYanks) October 7, 2024

Unfortunately for Rodón and the Yankees, that show of powerfulness and fiery jubilation did not foreshadow an exceptional evening. While the hurler remained businesslike for the archetypal 3 innings of his Yankees postseason debut, helium yet unraveled successful the 4th framework of the Bombers’ 4-2 loss.

Rodón’s slider led to his demise, arsenic the Royals plated their archetypal 3 runs by pouncing connected the pitch. Salvador Perez started the scoring for Kansas City successful the fourth, crushing a solo changeable to near minutes aft a Giancarlo Stanton azygous enactment the Yankees connected the board.

Rodón hung his breaking shot implicit the bosom of the sheet connected the dinger. He did the aforesaid erstwhile Tommy Pham rocketed an RBI azygous a fewer batters later. Garrett Hampson past connected with a slider beneath the zone, adding his ain RBI single.

That knocked Rodón retired of the crippled aft 3.2 innings.

Garcia proceeded to coincidentally azygous disconnected Ian Hamilton’s slider, earning the Royals — and Rodón — a 4th run. The starter besides totaled 7 hits, zero walks, 7 strikeouts and 72 pitches arsenic his nighttime ended successful disappointment.

While Rodón could not support his first-inning occurrence connected Monday, Royals starter Cole Ragans held the Yankees to 1 tally implicit 4 innings. He lone allowed 3 hits, but 4 walks gave the pinstripers a fewer squandered opportunities.

While Jazz Chisholm Jr. launched a solo homer successful the ninth, the Yankees went 1-for-6 with runners successful scoring presumption and stranded 8 men during the game.

With the bid present tied, the Yankees and Royals volition caput to Kansas City for Game 3 connected Wednesday. The Yanks tabbed Clarke Schmidt to commencement the game, picking the accordant righty implicit Luis Gil.

Kansas City had yet to denote its Game 3 starter by the extremity of Monday’s action, but Seth Lugo is an option. The first-time All-Star dominated the Yankees connected Sept. 10, striking retired 10 implicit 7 scoreless innings.