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Randy Arozarena’s homer in the sixth was the only damage, as none of Weathers’ three walks hurt him. Unfortunately, he needed one more out to secure a win, as the Yankees didn’t take the lead until the bottom of the seventh. Weathers remains 5-7 with a 3.69 ERA ahead of a start in Toronto on Sunday.

This makes back-to-back starts where Weathers hasn’t allowed a run, and he’s given up just one over his last three over 18 2/3 innings. That’ll work. In this outing, Weathers struck out six while issuing just one walk, and he scattered four hits in a very impressive outing for the 26-year-old that lowers his ERA to 3.79. If there’s no change to the rotation order, Weathers will face Seattle in New York on Tuesday.

Weathers wasn’t as impressive as Sean Burke today, but he wound up with the better end result, completing one more scoreless frame than the White Sox’s right-hander. Weathers struck out four and walked three. He allowed nine hard-hit balls, but just two produced hits and one was a double-play ball. This makes three times this year that Weathers has completed seven scoreless innings, though he’s only gotten a win for one of those. He remains 4-7 with a 3.99 ERA through 21 starts. He’ll face the Cardinals next.

Weathers, whose velocity was up 1-1.5 mph from his season averages tonight, has his July victory after also getting one apiece in April, May and June. He deserves a little better than a 4-7 record for his 4.25 ERA in 20 starts, and the Yankees have gone 10-10 with him on the mound. He seems to be clearly ahead of Will Warren in the Yankees’ thoughts right now, which might prove important when Carlos Rodón is ready to come off the injured list. He’ll face the White Sox next week.

Weathers looked like he was going to be on the hook for a loss after giving up a go-ahead homer to rookie slugger Esmerlyn Valdez in the third inning. Fortunately, New York’s offense rose to the occasion and backed him with a touchdown and a two-point conversion to overcome the early deficit. He posted five strikeouts and issued two walks. He’s worked past the fifth inning just once in his last four starts and has allowed 15 runs over 15 2/3 innings during that span. He’ll face a tough test with a challenging road matchup against the Phillies on Saturday to close out a two-start week.

Cole will be followed by Ryan Weathers on Saturday and Cam Schlittler on Sunday. The 35-year-old hurler had a solid first half in his return from Tommy John surgery, posting a 4.04 ERA, 1.20 WHIP and a 47/11 K/BB ratio over 49 innings of work through his first nine starts.

Weathers was fortunate to get out of a jam in the third inning with a double play ball that traded runners on first and third and nobody out for a run and a double play. Fernando Cruz came on in the sixth inning with runners on first and third (after C.J. Abrams stumbled on his way home and had to go back to third) and struck out two batters to preserve Weathers’ chance at a win, which Tim Hill promptly coughed up in the seventh. Weathers barely threw his fastball at all, as just 18 of his 91 pitchers weren’t sweepers, sliders, or changeups. He allowed four hard-hit balls. He’ll enter the second half of the season as a respectable 12-team starter going forward with a 4.15 ERA and a baffling 3-7 record.

Weathers gave up seven hits, walked one and struck out three. He fell to 3-6 with the loss. Weathers ran into trouble in both of the innings he started, though he wasn’t helped by a throwing error in the second inning by Jose Caballero. The Tigers were able to push five runs across against Weathers with their right-handed heavy lineup, though only two of the runs were earned. He has a 4.08 ERA. Weathers is lined up to face the Twins at home this weekend.

Weathers was able to dance around very, very consistent hard contact to outduel Tarik Skubal here. The Tigers had 10 hard-hit balls in total against him, but many of them turned into outs and whenever Weathers got into trouble, he wriggled his way out of it. His changeup was a big reason for that as his go-to put away pitch against righties and while some of them missed by a lot, the ones that were good were really good. All in all, this was a solid outing and Weathers left it with a 3.95 ERA, 95 strikeouts, and 24 walks through 86 2/3 innings so far this season. Weathers is scheduled to face the Tigers again followed by the Twins in a two-start week with both starts coming at home.

The 26-year-old southpaw scattered just three hits and one walk on the evening. The lone tally against him came on a solo blast off the bat of Colson Montgomery in the second inning. Unfortunately, the Yankees were only able to provide one run of support for him. Weathers got 13 whiffs on 88 pitches on the night, posting a CSW of 28 percent. Still 2-5 on the season, he’ll bring a 4.13 ERA, 1.13 WHIP and an 89/22 K/BB ratio (80 2/3 innings) into Tuesday’s matchup against the Tigers in Detroit.