Wednesday, July 25, 2018

New York Yankees lose another one in TAmpa


The New York Yankees were defeated by the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday afternoon.  The game took place at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida and the final score was 3-2.  Luis Cessa started for the Yankees and pitched well.  Miguel Andujar led the offense with two hits but the offense didn’t do much. 

Cessa pitched 5 1/3 innings giving up four hits and two runs with three strikeouts.  Cessa lost his second game of the season.  Jonathan Holder pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up two hits and a run with a  strikeout, A.J. Cole pitched an inning with two strikeouts and Delllin Betances pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out two. 

Ryne Stanke pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out two,

 Jaime Schultz pitched three innings giving up a hit and a run with a walk and four strikeouts and Diego Castillo pitched two innings giving up two hits and he struck out one and won his second game of the season.  Jose Alvarado pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up two hits and a run with a walk and a strikeout, Sergio Romo pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and he struck out two and saved his 12th game of the season.  Jonny Venters pitched to one batter and got him out. 

Brett Gardner drew a walk, Aaron Judge had a hit and Didi Gregorius had a hit.  Giancarlo Stanton had a hit and an RBI, Gleyber Torres drew a walk and Greg Bird had a hit.  Andujar had two hits, Neil Walker had a hit and an RBI and the Yankees were 0-4 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base.  Stanton had a stolen base. 

Kevin Kiermaier had a hit and two RBI, Jake Bauers had a hit and C.J. Cron had a hit and an RBI.  Joey Wendle had two hits, Daniel Robertson had a hit and Adam Moore had a hit.  Kiermaier and Cron each hit a homerun and the Rays were 0-3 with runners in scoring position and left four men on base.  Bauers had a stolen base and Duffy committed an error. 

In the second Walker hit a sac fly to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.  In the sixth Kiermaier hit a two-run homerun to give the Rays a 2-1 lead.  Cron hit a solo homerun to push the lead to 3-1.  In the eighth Stanton hit a sac fly to cut the lead to 3-2 and that would be the final score. 

The Yankees lost two out of three in the series and will now head home to face the Kansas City Royals for four starting on Thursday night. 


New York Yankees shutout the Tampa Bay Rays behind a dominant Masahiro Tanaka


The New York Yankees defeated the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night.  The game took place at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida and the final score was 4-0.  Masahiro Tanaka started for the Yankees and he pitched great.  Miguel Andujar, Greg Bird and Neil Walker each had two hits to pace the offense. 

Tanaka pitched a complete game shutout giving up three hits and a walk and he struck out nine.  Tanaka won his eighth game of the season. 

Yonny Chirinos pitched 6 2/3 innings giving up six hits and three runs with a walk and six strikeouts.  He lost his second game of the season.  Chih-Wei Hu pitched 2 1/3 innings giving up two hits and a run and he struck out four. 

Brett Gardner had a hit, Aaron Judge had a hit and Didi Gregorius had an RBI.  Andujar had two hits, Bird had two hits and Walker had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk.  Austin Romine had two RBI, Bird and Andujar each hit a double and the Yankees were 1-10 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base. 

C.J. Cron had two hits, Ji-Man Choi drew a walk and Jesus Sucre had a hit.  Cron hit a double and the Rays were 0-3 with runners in scoring position and left two men on base. 

In the first Gregorius hit an RBI ground out to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.  In the fifth Romine hit an RBI ground out to push the lead to 2-0.  In the seventh Romine hit a sac fly to extend the lead to 3-0 and in the ninth Walker hit an RBI single to make it 4-0 and that was the final score. 

The two teams will play the third and final game of the series on Wednesday afternoon.  Each team has won one making this the rubber game of the series. 
 

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