After a wild-card series where the Yankees got plenty of length from their starting pitching, Luis Gil couldn\u2019t continue that trend in Game 1 of the ALDS.<\/p>\n
He couldn\u2019t even make it out of the third inning, allowing a pair of homers \u2014 to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Alejandro Kirk \u2014 across 2 \u2154 frames and exiting with a runner on first base and down 2-0 on Saturday at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just feel like a lot of good swings were starting to happen,\u201d Aaron Boone said of the decision during the Fox broadcast. \u201cWe were getting to the middle of the order. \u2026 Never an easy call, especially with a guy as talented as Luis.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luis Gil reacts during the first inning of his Oct. 4 start against the Blue Jays. Charles Wenzelberg<\/p>\n
Luis Gil throws a pitch during the first inning of the Yankees\u2019 Oct. 4 game against the Blue Jays. Jason Szenes for the NY Post<\/p>\n
It marked the shortest start of the season for Gil, who won the American League Rookie of the Year award last year but didn\u2019t make his 2025 debut until Aug. 3 after sustaining a lat strain in spring training.<\/p>\n
That turned his arrival into a deadline-esque acquisition, of sorts, and Gil mostly impressed across 11 starts \u2014 producing a 3.32 ERA \u2014 but struggled with command at times.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Luis Gil reacts as Vladimir Guerrero Jr. rounds the bases during the Yankees\u2019 Oct. 4 game. Charles Wenzelberg<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t walk anyone against the Blue Jays in Game 1 after getting left off the wild-card series roster, but Guerrero sent a changeup 367 feet over the left-field fence with two outs in the first and Kirk demolished a ball 392 feet to the same part of Rogers Centre one frame later.<\/p>\n
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Tim Hill took over for Gil, who threw 48 pitches, and recorded the final out of the frame. He stayed on to pitch a scoreless fourth inning. <\/p>\n
With the Yankees needing a fourth postseason starter to open the ALDS, Gil couldn\u2019t deliver after getting the nod over rookie Will Warren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a wild-card series where the Yankees got plenty of length from their starting pitching, Luis Gil couldn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,2277,4,2305,1690,62,2548,2547,185,70,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-362207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-luis-gil","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-playoffs","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkyankees","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","18":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115318189354971630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}