It was a tough week for Ryan Weathers.
After recording just five outs Monday — and at some point being afflicted by a teamwide stomach bug or bout of food poisoning — Weathers had another short start in Sunday’s 6-1 loss to the Twins as he was yanked after four-plus 4.0innings.
The lefty said afterwards that he threw up several times during the game, as he tried to “gut out” the issue.
But he was charged with four earned runs and put runners in scoring position in all but one of the innings he appeared in.
“Credit to him, under the weather today, and still went out there and battled,” manager Aaron Boone said after the game.
“I thought his stuff was really good, as good a change-up as I’ve seen from him, a ton of swing-and-miss with that pitch,” he continued, before conceding that Minnesota “battled him throughout to make it challenging all day.”
Weathers did record six strikeouts but didn’t fully bounce back from a difficult start to the game.
A leadoff double from Minnesota’s Austin Martin set the tone for the pitcher’s day (and helped the Twins grab a 1-0 lead soon after), and Weathers was ultimately pulled after beaning Luke Keaschall and walking Martin in the fifth inning.
“I wanna do well for the team and try to win the ballgame,” Weathers said afterwards. “And it just didn’t happen today.”
Weathers got up to 88 pitches — and one was a wild pitch that moved Royce Lewis to second and allowed him to score on shortly after a Brooks Lee single to left.
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The 26-year-old, in his sixth MLB season, is well on his way to blowing past his career high of 94 ²/₃ innings from his rookie season in San Diego.
And that mileage won’t make things any easier for a pitcher who has already been sliding over the last couple of months.
His ERA had dropped to a flat 3.00 on May 11 after a two-run, 6 ¹/₃-inning start against the Orioles. That figure is now 4.29 after this latest Yankees defeat, in which boos later rang down for relievers Paul Blackburn and Camilo Doval after the bleeding continued.
Weathers will likely pitch next in the back end of the Rays series or against the Nationals, and neither of those spots is massively favorable for a pitcher trying to get back on track.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
