Masahiro Tanaka had the worst outing of his major league career Sunday, allowing eight earned runs and being pulled from the game after only five outs in the New York Yankees' 10-7 defeat to the Houston Astros.
Tanaka (5-2), who had won his last five starts and is accustomed to being cheered by the fans at Yankee Stadium, was booed off the mound after surrendering four home runs, including a first-inning grand slam to Alex Bregman in the second game of a doubleheader.
After they lost 11-6 in Game 1, the Astros scored six runs in the opening frame as Tanaka got himself in a two-out, bases-loaded jam on two singles and a hit batsman — after giving up back-to-back solo shots to George Springer and Josh Reddick to start the inning.