New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers

The New York Yankees defeated the Detroit Tigers on Monday night.  The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score was 7-3.  Luis Severino started for the Yankees and he battled and the bullpen was good.  Chase Headley had three hits to lead the offense. 

Severino pitched five innings giving up four hits and a run with three walks and eight strikeouts.  Severino picked up his eighth win of the season.  Tommy Khanle pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run with two strikeouts, Dellin Betances pitched an inning with a walk and a strikeout and Jonathan Holder pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up three hits and a run with three strikeouts.  Aroldis Chapman saved his 13^th game of the season pitching to two batters and retiring them both, one by strikeout. 

Michael Fulmer lost his ninth game of the season pitching six innings and giving up seven hits and seven runs with six of them being earned.  He walked three and struck out five.  Alex Wilson pitched a perfect inning with two strikeouts and Warwick Saupold pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout. 

Clint Frazier had a hit and an RBI, Aaron Judge had a hit, an RBI and drew two walks and Gary Sanchez had an RBI.  Matt Holliday drew a walk, Headley had three hits and two RBI and T. Frazier had a hit and two RBI.  Tyler Wade had a hit, Headley hit a double and C. Frazier hit a triple.  Judge hit a homerun and the Yankees were 3-3 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base.  Ellsbury had a stolen base and C. Frazier and Torreyes each committed an error.  Sanchez had a passed ball. 

Ian Kinsler had a hit, Jim Adduci had a hit and an RBI and Justin Upton had a hit.  Miguel Cabrera had a hit and drew two walks, Nick Castellanos had two hits and drew two walks and Mikie Mahtook had a hit and an RBI.  James McCann had two hits and an RBI, McCann hit a double and the Tigers were 3-13 with runners in scoring position and left 14 men on base.  Kinsler committed an error. 

In the fourth McCann hit an RBI double to give the Tigers a 1-0 lead.  In the bottom of the fourth Headley hit a two-run double to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead.  T. Frazier hit a two-run single and it was 4-1 Yankees.  In the fifth Judge hit a solo homerun to extend the lead to 5-1.  In the sixth Adduci hit an RBI single to cut the lead to 5-2.  In the seventh C. Frazier hit an RBI triple to push the lead to 6-2 and Sanchez hit a sac fly to make it a 7-2 game.  In the ninth Mahtook hit an RBI ground out to cut the lead to 7-3 and that would be the final score. 

The two teams will play game two of three on Tuesday night.