The afternoon of March 27, four months ago, it was disastrous for Cuban pitcher Yariel Rodríguez. In his first presentation of the season, “El Gallero” of San Serapio allowed two home runs and three races in front of the orioles in an episode as a reliever, generating multiple doubts about what could be his 2025 campaign as a member of the Blue Jays.
In the Rogers Center de Toronto, the Camagüeano right entered with his left foot and paid him Caro in front of Adley Rutschman and Jordan Wetsburg, who dispatched two batches of more than 400 feet. At that time, so much was the rumble that was rumored that it could be sent to minor leagues to make the relevant adjustments.
However, Yariel imposed a corrective and gradually managed to straighten the course to become one of the most important arms of the Blue Jays. To illustrate your improvement, it is enough to compare your performance of the first month of the season to what was achieved as of May:
* March-April: Effectiveness of 5.68, with _ clean races on their account, ten strikeouts, seven tickets, four home runs and eight extrabases allowed in 12.2 work innings.
* From May 1 to July 29: Effectiveness of 1.12, with five clean races in their account, 39 strikeouts, ten tickets, two homers and three extrabases allowed in 40.1 work innings.
The qualitative difference between the two periods has been abysmal, but this Wednesday at Baltimore Yariel returned to the zero point of the season. Like the first day of the course and again in front of the Orioles, the Agramontino again allowed three races – one of them dirty – and revived their worst ghosts of 2025.
The Antillean was perched on the hill with four advantage (9-5) in the seventh chapter and, after taking out the first out, granted unstoppables followed by Jackson Holliday, Jordan Westburg and Gunnar Henderson. Among them they made a race and put Yariel on alert, who did not allow three Jits since last April 22 against the stars.
Then, things only worsened. In what could be a saving connection to the initial of Adley Rutschman, the initialist Ernie Clement made an error that totally dislodged to the “Gallero”, who lost control and threw eight consecutive balls in front of Ryan O’Hearn and Colton Cowser, who pointed out driven with two tickets.
After throwing more balls than Strikes (14 by 10), the mentor John Schneider did not wait any longer and took out the Cuban, whose salvation was the reliever Braydon Fisher, who entered the scene with the bases full and struck out Cedric Mullins and Ramón Laureano. That avoided larger evils for Yariel and a more bulky income of allowed races.
What the Agramontino cannot deny is his curse against the Orioles, a novena to which he has not been able to dominate. In six exits before them he has only been able to work 4.2 episodes, with ten races (eight clean) and eight unstoppable allowed, including pair of homers. The worst thing is that he accumulates eight tickets and only four strikeouts in those presentations. Its average clean against Baltimore is 15.43, the worst among the 26 rivals he has faced in MLB.
By the way, Yariel was not the only Cuban who left the duel between Blue Jays and Orioles. The Avileño Law Yennier Cano accepted five clean and four Jits (including Nathan Lukes home run) and carried his sixth defeat of the year.
This punishment for two Cuban reliefs in the same game is a rare event if we refer to the history of major leagues. In fact, lIn the last time that two turnings on the island allowed three or more races in the same game was on June 19, 2010, more than 15 years ago, when the Pinareños Rights Danys Báez and José Ariel Contreras left the Bullpen of the Phillies and accepted three annotations each in a match against the Yankees.
