The New York Yankees were defeated
by the Minnesota Twins on Sunday afternoon.
The game took place at Yankee Stadium and the final score was 7-1. Nathan Eovaldi started for the Yankees and he
didn't pitch that well. The Yankees
offense only managed a couple of hits.
Eovaldi pitched six innings giving
up six hits and five runs with three walks and four strikeouts and he took his
fifth loss of the season. Luis Cessa
pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a hit and a run with a walk, Richard Bleier struck
out the only batter that he faced and Kirby Yates pitched an inning giving up a
hit and a run with a strikeout.
Tyler Duffey pitched eight innings
giving up two hits and a run with eight strikeouts. He won his third game of the season. Brandon Kintzler pitched a perfect inning.
Mark Teixeira had a hit and an RBI,
Aaron Hicks had a hit and Hicks hit a double and Teixeira hit a homerun. The Yankees were 0-1 with runners in scoring
position and left one man on base.
Eduardo Nunez had two hits and an
RBI, Robbie Grossman drew two walks and Joe Mauer drew a walk. Brian Dozier had two hits and two RBI, Trevor
Plouffe had a hit and an RBI and Max Kepler had a hit, an RBI and drew a
walk. Juan Centeno had a hit and an RBI,
Danny Santana had a hit and an RBI and Santana, Dozier, Plouffe, Kepler, Nunez
and Centeno each hit a homerun. The
Twins left three men on base. Nunez was
caught stealing.
In the third Santana hit a solo
homerun to give the Twins a 1-0 lead. In
the sixth Dozier hit a two run homerun to make it 3-0, Plouffe hit a solo
homerun and Kepler hit a solo homerun and it was 5-0 Twins. In the seventh Nunez hit a solo homerun to
push the lead to 6-0. In the eighth the
Yankees got on the board with a solo homerun by Teixeira to cut the lead to 6-1. In the ninth Centeno hit a solo homerun to
make it 7-1 and that would be the final score.
The Yankees won the first two games
of the series and lost the last one.
They will open a big four game series with the AL leading Texas Rangers
on Monday night.
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