New York Yankees win a thrilling game over the New York Mets

 

The New York Yankees defeated the New York Mets on Saturday night.  The game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York.  Corey Kluber started for the Yankees and he didn’t pitch great.  Brett Gardner, Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Gleyber Torres each had two hits. 

Kluber pitched four innings and gave up five hits and four runs with two walks and six strikeouts.  Lucas Luetge pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with a walk and a strikeout, Chad Green pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with a walk and two strikeouts and Clay Holmes pitched an inning giving up three hits and a run with a strikeout.  Holmes earned his seventh win of the season.  Albert Abreu pitched an inning giving up two walks and Aroldis Chapman pitched an inning giving up a hit and a strikeout. 

Taijuan Walker started for the Mets pitched six innings giving up six hits and five runs with a walk and eight strikeouts.  Seth Lugo pitched an inning with a strikeout, Trevor May pitched giving up three hits and three runs with two being earned and not recording an out.  May took his third loss of the season, Aaron Loup pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out one and Brad Hand pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout. 

DJ LeMahieu had a hit and drew a walk, Gardner had two hits and two RBI and Judge had two hits and three RBI.  Stanton had two hits, Torres had two hits and Kyle Higashioka had a hit and two RBI.  Higashioka and Gardner each hit a homerun and Judge hit two homeruns.  The Yankees were 0-2 with runners in scoring position and left three men on base. 

Francisco Lindor drew a walk, Michael Conforto had two hits and drew a walk and Javier Baez had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk.  Jeff McNeil had a hit and drew a walk, J.D. Davis had a hit and Kevin Pillar had two hits and two RBI.  James McCann had two hits, three RBI and drew a walk, Walker had a hit and an RBI and Dom Smith drew a walk.  Pillar and Davis each hit a double, McCann hit a triple and Baez and McCann each hit a homerun.  The Mets were 4-9 with runners in scoring position and left 10 men on base.  Baez had a stolen base and committed an error. 

In the second Higashioka hit a two-run homerun giving the Yankees a 2-0 lead.  Gardner hit a two-run homerun to push the lead to 4-0.  Judge hit a solo homerun which was back-to-back pushing the lead to 5-0.  In the bottom of the second Pillar hit an RBI double cutting the lead to 5-1.  McCann hit an RBI triple making it a 5-2 game and Walker hit an RBI single cutting the lead to 5-3.  In the bottom of the third Baez hit a solo homerun trimming the lead to 5-4.  In the bottom of the sixth McCann hit a two-run homerun giving the Mets a 6-5 lead.  In the bottom of the seventh Pillar hit an RBI single pushing the Mets lead to 7-5.  In the eighth inning Judge hit a two-run homerun to tie the game at seven.  Voit grounded into a forceout giving the Yankees an 8-7 lead and that would be the final score of the game.  The two teams will play the third and final game of the series on Sunday night.  It is the rubber game as each team has won one game so far.