The New York Yankees were defeated
by the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night.
The game took place at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan and the final
score was 5-2. Brandon McCarthy wasn't
sharp and the Yankees offense was Jacoby Ellsbury who had three hits including
two homeruns.
McCarthy pitched 6 1/3 innings
giving up nine hits and five runs. He
walked two and struck out five and lost his 13th game of the season. Esmil Rogers pitched 1 2/3 innings striking
out three.
Rick Porcello won his 15th game of
the season pitching eight innings and giving up two runs. He gave up nine hits and no walks with two
strikeouts. Joe Nathan earned his 28th save
of the season pitching a 1-2-3 inning.
Nathan had one strikeout.
Ellsbury had three hits and two
RBI, Derek Jeter had two hits and Brian McCann had a hit. Carlos Beltran had two hits, Ichiro Suzuki
had a hit and Ellsbury hit two homeruns.
The Yankees were 0-3 with runners in scoring position and left five men
on base.
Tori Hunter had two hits and an
RBI, Miguel Cabrera had a hit and Victor Martinez had a hit. J.D. Martinez had three hits and an RBI, Nick
Castellanos had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Rajai Davis had a hit, an RBI
and drew a walk. Hunter, Cabrera, J.D.
Martinez and Davis each hit a double.
The Tigers were 3-10 with runners in scoring position and left five men
on base.
In the first Davis had an RBI walk
to give the Tigers a 1-0 lead. In the
third J.D. Martinez hit an RBI single to extend the lead to 2-0. Ellsbury hit a solo homerun in the fifth to
cut the lead to 2-1 and that would be as close as the Yankees would get. In the sixth Castellanos hit an RBI single to
make it 3-1 and Avila grounded into a double play with another run scoring to
make it 4-1. The Tigers added a fifth
run in the seventh on a Hunter RBI single.
Ellsbury hit another solo homerun in the eighth to make it 5-2. The Yankees win streak comes to an end at
five. The two teams will play game two
of their three game series on Wednesday night.
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