Toronto’s bullpen entered Friday having logged 210 innings, and recent injuries to Yimi García, Tommy Nance, and Joe Mantiply forced Triple-A call-ups. Adam Macko joined immediately without a gradual transition, making his first major-league appearances at Yankee Stadium. The left-hander retired nine of 11 Yankees batters across three scoreless innings, allowing two hits, no walks, and three strikeouts. In his most recent outing, he faced four left-handed batters and one right-handed batter, permitting only J.C. Escarra’s two-out double by Ryan McMahon. He needed 20 pitches, threw 13 strikes, struck out Ben Rice on an 86-m.p.h. slider, and then handed the game to Spencer Miles for the remaining innings.
"Less than a week into his major-league career, Canadian Adam Macko is already proving he can help the Toronto Blue Jays' heavily-used, thinned-out bullpen - which enters Friday having logged the fourth-most innings (210) in baseball this season."
"The 25-year-old lefty - the lone remaining piece from the 2022 Teoscar Hernández-Erik Swanson trade - retired nine of the 11 Yankees batters he faced across three scoreless innings, only allowing a pair of hits and zero walks while striking out three."
"Following opener Braydon Fisher out of the 'pen, Macko was called upon in the second inning to face a pocket that included four left-handed batters (Spencer Jones, Ryan McMahon, J.C. Escarra and Ben Rice) and one right-handed batter (Anthony Volpe), and he carved through them all except for McMahon's two-out double."
"In the end, all it required was 20 pitches (13 strikes) from Macko, who punched out Rice on an 86-m.p.h. slider for a called strike three (a pitch that likely would've been overturned to a ball had it been challenged), before handing things over to Spencer Miles for bulk-inning duties - starting with Aaron Judge, who grounded out to end the third."
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