The New York Yankees defeated the
Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday afternoon. The
game took place at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida and the final
score was 7-1. Masahiro Tanaka started
for the Yankees and he pitched great. DJ
LeMahieu, Austin Romine and Mike Tauchman each had two hits to lead the
offense.
Tanaka pitched seven innings giving
up five hits and a run with seven strikeouts.
He won his third game of the season.
Zack Britton pitched an inning giving up two hits and he struck out two
and Chad Green pitched a perfect inning by striking out the side.
Blake Snell pitched 5 2/3 innings
giving up four hits and two runs with two walks and 12 strikeouts. Snell lost his fourth game of the
season. Chaz Roe pitched 1 1/3 innings
with a walk and two strikeouts, Ryne Stanek pitched an inning giving up a hit
and a run with a walk and two strikeouts and Austin Pruitt pitched an inning
giving up four hits and four runs with a walk and a strikeout.
LeMahieu had two hits and an RBI,
Luke Voit drew three walks and Gio Urshela had a hit and two RBI. Clint Frazier drew a walk, Brett Gardner had
a hit and an RBI and Cameron Maybin drew a walk. Thairo Estrada had a hit and an RBI, Romine
had two hits and Tauchman had two hits and an RBI. Romine, Tauchman and Urshela each hit a
double. Estrada hit a homerun and the
Yankees were 3-11 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on
base.
Austin Meadows had two hits and an
RBI, Tommy Pham had a hit and Ji-Man Choi had two hits. Yandy Diaz had a hit, Avisail Garcia had a
hit and Meadows hit a homerun. The Rays
were 0-3 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base.
In the fifth Tauchman hit an RBI
double and Lemhaieu hit an RBI single to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead. In the sixth Meadows hit a solo homerun to
cut the lead to 2-1. In the eighth a
wild pitch made it 3-1. Estrada hit a
solo homerun in the ninth, Urshela hit a two-run double and Gardner hit a sac
fly to make it 7-1 and that was the final score.
The Yankees won two out of three
and will head home to take on the Baltimore Orioles in a three-game
series. They will play on Monday
night.
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