The New York Yankees were defeated
by the Texas Rangers on Saturday afternoon.
The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the
final score was 8-1. Luis Cessa started
for the Yankees and he pitched ok, Tyler Clippard had another rough outing out
of the bullpen. The Yankees offense only
managed five hits.
Cessa took his second loss of the
season pitching five innings and giving up three hits and three runs. He walked two and struck out eight. Jonathan Holder pitched 1 2/3 innings giving
up two hits and a run with two strikeouts, Tyler Webb pitched 1 1/3 perfect
innings with a strikeout and Clippard pitched an inning giving up three hits
and four runs with two walks and a strikeout.
Austin Bibens-Dirkx pitched seven
innings giving up five hits and a run with a walk and three strikeouts. He won his third game of the season. Alex Claudio pitched a perfect inning with a
strikeout and Keone Kela pitched a perfect inning with a couple of
strikeouts.
Mason Williams had a hit and drew a
walk, Aaron Judge had a hit and an RBI and Starlin Castro had a hit. Didi Gregorius had a hit, Austin Romine had a
hit and Judge hit a homerun. The
Yankees were 0-4 with runners in scoring position and left four men on
base. Williams had two stolen
bases.
Delino DeShields had a hit and drew
a walk, Shin-Soo Choo had a hit and two RBI and Elvis Andrus had two hits and
two RBI. Adrian Beltre had two hits and drew
a walk, Carlos Gomez had a hit, two RBI and drew a walk and Robinson Chirinos
had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.
Beltre, Choo and Andrus each hit a double and Gomez and Chirinos each
hit a homerun. The Rangers were 3-11
with runners in scoring position and left five men on base. DeShields and Gomez each had a stolen
base.
In the first Andrus hit an RBI
single to give the Rangers a 1-0 lead.
In the fourth Gomez hit a two-run homerun to extend the lead to
3-0. Judge hit a solo homerun in the sixth
to cut the lead to 3-1. Chirinos hit a
solo homerun in the seventh to push the lead to 4-1. In the ninth a wild pitch made it 5-1 and
Choo hit a two-run double and Andrus an RBI double to give the Rangers a 8-1
lead which would be the final score.
The two teams will play the rubber
game on Sunday afternoon.
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