NEW YORK (AP) — the 2014 season http://www.indiansfanproshop.com/authentic-b.j.-upton-jersey , Didi Gregorius had the unenviable task of following Derek Jeter as New York’s new shortstop.A smooth fit, it’s been.Gregorius homered and turned in a pair of nifty defensive plays as the Yankees defeated the Texas Rangers 7-2 on Sunday.Gregorius has been praised by his manager and teammates for his play on the field and his leadership in the clubhouse. Just like his predecessor.“Taking over for who he took over for and being able to have three 20-homer seasons in a row, it’s incredible,” winning pitcher CC Sabathia said. “If he wouldn’t have came in and did what he did the last three or four years, we’d still be talking about ‘Jeet’ and how we need leadership.”Sabathia threw six shutout innings of one-hit ball and Giancarlo Stanton homered for the fifth time in six games. New York has won six of the last seven.The postgame talk was about Gregorius’ fifth-inning gem.The 28-year-old slid to his right to cut off a grounder in the hole by Delino DeShields, rose to his feet and fired a perfect throw to first in one smooth motion, nabbing the Texas speedster by a half-step.The crowd chanted his name after the play and Gregorius smiled and tipped his cap.DeShields was activated from the seven-day concussion disabled list earlier in the day.“When I was at second base, he was like, ‘Man, sorry I took that hit,'” DeShields said. “I said, ‘Nah, bro, you do what you got to do.'”Said Sabathia: “That was one of the better plays I’ve ever seen at shortstop.”Joey Gallo had two hits for Texas Josh Tomlin Jersey , which dropped three of the four games in the series. He also reached over the left-field wall to take a home run away from Austin Romine in the eighth.Sabathia (7-4) struck out seven to win for the first time since July 4. The burly left-hander allowed just one ball out of the infield and lowered his ERA to 3.32 — the 38-year-old has not finished a season with an ERA lower than 3.38 since 2011.Stanton hit his 30th home run, giving New York a first-inning lead for the second straight day, connecting off Martin Perez (2-5). Stanton has the most home runs by any Yankees player in his first season with the team since Mark Teixeira hit 39 in 2009.The Yankees scored five times in the fifth to chase Perez. Aaron Hicks hit a two-run single and Gregorius capped the burst with his 21st homer.“A really active day for me,” Gregorius joked.The shortstop also made a slick backhanded play in the first.“Oh, man, he did it all,” New York manager Aaron Boone said.Texas scored twice in the seventh against Sonny Gray. DeShields drove in a run with an infield single.Gray ran into trouble again in the eighth, allowing the first two batters to reach, but Jonathan Holder wiggled out of the jam with a pair of strikeouts. Expected to be a key component of New York’s rotation, Gray has given up nine earned runs over his last 5 2-3 innings since being moved to the bullpen.TOP TRAINERNew York Yankees trainer Steve Donohue was awarded the National Athletic Trainer Association’s Most Distinguished Athletic Award. Now in his 40th consecutive season in the organization, and seventh as the team’s head athletic trainer, Donohue became part of a viral video earlier in the week when he was captured on film removing a moth from umpire Bruce Dreckman’s left ear.TRAINER’S ROOMYankees: Stanton continues to be limited by a sore left hamstring that keeps him in a designated hitter role. Boone commented that Stanton’s ability to play the field is examined daily. . OF Clint Frazier (post-concussion migraines) was able to hit in the batting cage Saturday, but continues to experience symptoms.Rangers: OF Nomar Mazara (right thumb sprain) was again limited to designated hitter duties with Triple-A Round Rock on Saturday.UP NEXTYankees: RHP Luis Severino (15-5, 3.11 ERA) pitches for the Yankees against Mets ace RHP Jacob deGrom (6-7 Carlos Carrasco Jersey , 1.77 ERA) Monday to close out the Subway Series on what was originally an off-day for both teams. The game was scheduled for July 22, but was postponed because of heavy rain. Severino’s 15 wins lead the AL. DeGrom continues to lead the majors in ERA and is coming off his first victory since June 18.Rangers: RHP Bartolo Colon (6-10, 5.18) pitches against RHP Zack Greinke (12-7, 2.89 ERA) as Texas opens a two-game interleague matchup with Arizona. Colon allowed four runs over seven innings to defeat Seattle on Aug. 7, passing Dennis Martinez to become the career leader for most wins in MLB by a pitcher from Latin America. MLB announced its Rookies of the Year last night, and will unveil its other award winners all this week. The Orioles...will not be involved."Good morning, Camden Chatters.Not much is going on right now with the Orioles — or any other team, for that matter — but we’ll at least have some baseball news to digest this week when MLB announces its end-of-season awards.The honors kicked off last night with the Rookie of the Year awards, which were won in the AL by the Angels’ two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani and in the NL by Braves wunderkind outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr.The Orioles, of course, had no finalists for the award. It’s not that they didn’t employ any rookies in 2018 — they actually had 15 players make their MLB debut, a franchise record — it’s just that most of them weren’t much good. The Orioles’ best rookie was, I don’t know, Paul Fry? Not exactly a guy who’s going to beat out Ohtani. No offense Cliff Pennington Jersey , Paul Fry.Tonight, the Manager of the Year awards will be announced. I regret to inform you that the now-unemployed Buck Showalter will not win. That’ll be followed by the Cy Young awards on Wednesday and MVPs on Thursday, where again the word “Orioles” will never be uttered.Well, maybe next year. But probably not.LinksThe Orioles could announce next executive soon. Here’s what we know about the candidates. - Baltimore SunJon Meoli runs down the known list of candidates for the Orioles’ chief executive job, and notes that “some candidates were told at the time of their interviews that a decision would come this week.” I’ll believe it when I see it.Rosenthal: Greinke’s trade value; Can贸’s future in Seattle; Yanks seeking background info on Machado – The AthleticKen Rosenthal’s latest compilation of notes around the majors includes tidbits on the Orioles’ chief executive search and the never-ending MASN dispute.Orioles hope there's a market for Trumbo - BaltimoreBaseball.comSpoiler alert: there's not.The Orioles tried something with Jimmy Yacabonis, and maybe learned about him in the process – The AthleticThe Orioles' conversion of Jimmy Yacabonis to a starting pitcher turned out...kind of okay, actually. Matt Kremnitzer is as surprised as anyone.Tanner Scott has been closing the gap between potential and performance - Steve MelewskiQuietly, Tanner Scott made some improvements over the course of 2018 and could be a useful bullpen piece. Between Scott and Yacabonis, start printing those Orioles World Series tickets!Orioles birthdays and historyIs today your birthday? Happy birthday! You share your day with four ex-Orioles, including O’s bust-turned-Brewers postseason hero, Wade Miley (32). Miley, after going 10-20 with a 5.75 ERA in a season and a half with the Birds, went to Milwaukee this year and was 5-2 with a 2.57 ERA, then gave up just two runs in 14.2 innings in the playoffs. Could anything be more Orioles than one of their many awful Joey Votto Jersey , retread starters finding immediate success after leaving the team?Your other O’s birthday buddies are 2010-11 infielder Josh Bell (32), who had a two-homer game off Cliff Lee but an otherwise forgettable career; former AL Cy Young Pat Hentgen (50), who spent three past-his-prime years with the Orioles from 2001-03; and 1975-79 outfielder Larry Harlow (67), one of nine position players in O’s history to make a pitching appearance for them.On this day three years ago, the Orioles’ Matt Wieters accepted the club’s qualifying offer, something no free agent had ever done before that day. The O’s had extended him the QO so that, if he declined, they would receive draft pick compensation when he signed elsewhere. Instead, by accepting it, Wieters returned to the Birds for the 2016 season on a $15.8 million contract. The Orioles didn’t give him a QO the next time around.