The Yankees get dominated by King Felix as they lose 1-0

The New York Yankees were defeated by the score of 1-0 on Saturday afternoon. The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. Hiroki Kuroda started for the Yankees and was really good but he was facing a pitcher who was awesome. Felix Hernandez pitched a complete game two hit shutout. There was no offense to talk about for the Yankees and Seattle was led by Mike Carp who had the only RBI of the game. 
Kuroda pitched 6 1/3 innings giving up seven hits and a run with a walk and four strikeouts. Kuroda lost his eighth game of the season. Boone Logan pitched 2/3 of an inning striking out one, Dave Robertson pitched 1 1/3 innings striking out three and Clay Rapada pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and striking out one. Hernandez won his 10^th game of the season pitching nine innings giving up no runs on two hits. He walked two and struck out six.

Curtis Granderson drew a walk, Robinson Cano had a hit and Raul Ibanez drew a walk. Ichiro Suzuki had a hit, Cano hit a double and the Yankees were 0-1 with runners in scoring position and they left three men on base.

Jesus Montero had two hits, John Jaso had two hits and Carp had two hits and an RBI. Eric Thames had two hits Brendan Ryan drew a walk. Jaso, Carp and Thames each hit a double. The Mariners were 1-9 with runners in scoring position and they left eight men on base.

The Mariners improved their record to 51-58, they have won eight of their last nine games. The Yankees record dropped to 62-44. The two teams will play the rubber game of their three game series on Sunday afternoon. The Yankees will head on the road to Detroit and Toronto for seven games starting Monday night.

The Mets lose a close one in San Diego 3-1 to the Padres

The New York Mets were defeated by the San Diego Padres on Friday night by the score of 3-1. The game took place at Petco Park in San Diego, California. R.A. Dickey started for the Mets and pitched well and Richard started for San Diego and pitched well. Ronny Cedeno and Ruben Tejada led the Mets offense and Yonder Alonso led the Padres offense. 
Dickey pitched seven innings giving up four hits and three runs with two of them being earned. He walked three and struck out nine. Dickey is now 14-3 on the season. Jon Rauch pitched a perfect inning. Clayton Richard won his eighth game of the season pitching seven innings giving up eight hits and a run with two walks and two strikeouts. Luke Gregerson pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and striking out two and Huston Street saved his 18^th game of the season pitching 1 1/3 perfect innings with a strikeout.

Tejada had two hits, Andres Torres had a hit and David Wright drew a walk. Scott Hairston had a hit, Ike Davis had a hit and Jason Bay drew a walk. Cedeno had two hits and an RBI, Dickey had a hit and Justin Turner had a hit. The Mets were 1-8 with runners in scoring position and they left six men on base. Thole committed an error and Torres had an outfield assist. Dickey also had a pickoff.

Chris Denorfia had an RBI, Carolos Quentin had a hit and drew a walk and Alonso had two hits. John Baker had a hit and an RBI, Cabrera drew two walks and Alonso hit a double. The Padres were 1-1 with runners in scoring position and they left two men on base. Cabrera had a stolen base and was picked off.

The Mets record dropped to 52-55 and the Padres record improved to 45-63. The two teams will play game two of their three game series on Saturday night.

The New York Yankees get victory behind a dominant CC Sabathia

The New York Yankees defeated the Seattle Mariners by the score of 6-3 on Friday night. The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. CC Sabathia started the game for the Yankees and was really good. Kevin Millwood started for the Mariners and didn’t pitch bad. The bullpen wasn’t great for the Mariners. The Yankees offense was led by Eric Chavez, Robinson Cano and Russell Martin. The Mariners offense were led by Dustin Ackley. The Mariners only managed three hits but two of them were homeruns. 
Sabathia pitched a complete game to win his 11^th game of the season. He gave up three runs on three hits. He walked one and struck out ten. Millwood pitched six innings giving up nine hits and four runs. He is 4-9 on the season. He walked one and struck out three. Matt Capps pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up two runs and a walk, Oliver Perez pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up two hits and Pryor pitched a perfect inning with two strikeouts.

Curtis Granderson had a hit, two RBI and drew a walk, Derek Jeter had a hit and Cano had two hits and an RBI. Mark Teixeira had a hit, Raul Ibanez had a hit and an RBI and Nick Swisher had a hit and drew a walk. Chavez had two hits and two RBI, Ichiro Suzuki had a hit and Martin had two hits. Cano, Martin and Jeter each had a double. Chavez hit a homerun and the Yankees were 4-9 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base. Martin had a stolen base.

Ackley had a hit and two RBI, Casper Wells had a hit and an RBI and Miguel Olivo had a hit. Brendan Ryan had a hit, Olivo hit a double and Wells and Ackley each hit a homerun. The Mariners were 0-2 with runners in scoring position and left one man on base.

Granderson hit a two run single in the third inning to make it 2-0 Yankees. In the fourth Wells hit a solo homerun to make it a 2-1 game. Chavez hit a two run homerun in the sixth. Cano and Ibanez each hit an RBI single in the seventh inning to make it a 6-1 game. The Mariners scored two runs in the ninth on an Ackley two run homerun.

The Yankees record improved to 62-43 and the Mariners seven game winning streak was snapped. The Mariners record dropped to 50-58. The two teams will play game two of their three game series on Saturday afternoon.

The Mets take the series finale in San Francisco and take the series

The New York Mets defeated the San Francisco Giants on Thursday evening by the score of 9-1. The game took place at AT+T Park in San Francisco, California. Chris Young started for the Mets and pitched well. The Mets bullpen also pitched well. Ronny Cedeno led the Mets offense. Melky Cabrera was the Giants offense. Barry Zito didn’t pitch very well and the bullpen was good and bad. 
Young pitched seven innings giving up four hits and a run. He didn’t walk a batter and struck out four and won his third game of the season. Elvin Ramirez pitched an inning giving up a walk and Ramon Ramirez pitched an inning giving up a walk. Zito lost his eighth game of the season pitching 4 1/3 innings giving up six hits and seven runs. He walked three and struck out a batter. Loux pitched 2 1/3 innings giving up four hits and two runs with a walk and a strikeout. Hensley pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a hit and a walk and struck out two batters, Romo pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a walk and two strikeouts.

Ruben Tejada had a hit, Andres Torres had a hit and drew a walk and David Wright had a hit, an RBI and drew two walks. Scott Hairston had a hit and drew a walk, Daniel Murphy had two hits and an RBI and Jordany Valdespin drew a walk. Jason Bay had a hit, two RBI and drew a walk, Cedeno had three hits and five RBI and Young had a hit. Cedeno hit two doubles and Torres had a double. The Mets were 6-13 with runners in scoring position and they left eight men on base.

Cabrera had three hits and Brandon Belt had a homerun. Hunter Pence had the only RBI and drew a walk and Brandon Crawford drew a walk. Cabrera hit a double, Belt and Cabrera each hit a triple. The Giants were 0-2 and left four men on base.

Bay hit a two run single and Cedeno hit a two run double in the first inning. The Mets had a four run lead before the Giants even came to play. In the second Wright hit an RBI single and in the fourth Pence had a sacrifice fly to make it a 5-1. In the fifth Murphy and Cedeno each had an RBI single. Cedeno hit a two run double in the seventh. And it was a 9-1 victory for the Mets.

The Mets won three of the four games in the series. They are 5-3 on this west coast swing with three more to go. The Mets will head to San Diego on Monday. The Mets improved their record to 52-54 and the Giants record dropped to 56-49.

The New York Yankees avoid the sweep as they bash the birds

The New York Yankees defeated the Baltimore Orioles by the score of 12-3 on Wednesday afternoon. The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. Phil Hughes started for the Yankees and pitched pretty well. The Yankees offense really went to work in this game. Derek Jeter and Robinson Cano had really good games. Zach Britton started for the Orioles and didn’t pitch very well. J.J. Hardy led the Orioles offense. 
Hughes pitched six innings giving up one run on nine hits. He walked and struck out two batters. Hughes picked up his 11^th win of the season. Joba Chamberlain made his return to the big leagues. He pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up four hits and two runs with a walk. The results might of not been what he wanted but just to be back at this point is an accomplishment. He got the first one out of the way and can now move on. Clay Rapada pitched 2/3 of an inning striking out two and Dave Robertson pitched 2/3 of an inning striking out a batter. Britton lost his first game of the season pitching 2 2/3 innings giving up seven hits and seven runs. He walked three and struck out three, Kevin Gregg pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up five hits and four runs with a walk and a strikeout, Matt Lindstrom pitched two innings giving up two hits and had a strikeout and Luis Ayala pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit, a run and a walk. Tommy Hunter pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a walk.

Jeter had three hits and three RBI, Curtis Granderson had two hits and an RBI and Nick Swisher had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk. Cano had two hits, four RBI and drew a walk, Andruw Jones had a hit and an RBI and Russell Martin had a hit and drew two walks. McGehee drew two walks and had an RBI, Ichiro Suzuki had a hit and Jayson Nix had three hits and an RBI. Swisher and Nix each had a double and Granderson and Cano each hit a homerun. The Yankees were 7-13 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base.

Nick Markakis had a hit, Hardy had three hits and an RBI and Chris Davis had a hit. Adam Jones had two hits, Matt Wieters had two hits and Wilson Betemit had two hits and drew a walk. Mark Reynolds had a hit and drew a walk, Endy Chavez had a hit and two RBI and Omar Quintanilla drew a walk. Hardy, Reynols and Chavez each hit a double and Hardy hit a homerun. The Orioles were 0-15 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base. Wieters had a passed ball.

Granderson hit a solo homerun and Jones a sacrifice fly in the first inning. The Yankees had a 2-0 lead and Chavez hit an RBI groundout in the second to make it 2-1. Jeter and Swisher each hit an RBI single to make it 4-1 in the second inning. In the third the Yankees really broke it open. Nix hit an RBI double, Jeter had a two run single and Cano hit a grand slam. It was 11-1 Yankees at this point and they were well on their way to a victory. In the seventh Hardy hit a solo homerun to make it 11-2, in the eighth Chavez hit an RBI double to make it 11-3 and in the bottom of the eighth McGehee hit a sacrifice fly to make it 12-3.

The Yankees lost two out of three in the series but have a seven game lead in the loss column for first place in the division. The Yankees will have an off day on Thursday and then play a three game weekend series against the Seattle Mariners. The Yankees record improved to 61-43 and the Orioles record dropped to 55-50.

The Yankees get pounded by the Orioles to lose their fourth straight

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Baltimore Orioles by the score of 11-5 on Tuesday night. The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. Ivan Nova started for the Yankees and was terrible. The Yankees offense was good early and then went to sleep the rest of the game. Chris Tillman started for the Orioles and was horrible in the first inning and then settled down. The Orioles bullpen also did a good job. The offense of the Orioles was led by Nick Markakis and Wilson Betemit. 
Nova pitched five innings giving up nine runs on ten hits. He walked one and struck out five and lost his fifth game of the season. Boone Logan pitched an inning giving up a hit and striking out two, Cody Eppley pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a hit and a run and Clay Rapada pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and a run. Tillman won his fourth game of the season pitching five innings giving up eight hits and five runs, four of them were earned. He didn’t walk a batter and struck out three batters. Troy Patton pitched two innings giving up two hits and striking out three, Matt Lindstrom pitched a perfect inning and Luis Ayala pitched an inning giving up a hit.

Derek Jeter had three hits, Curtis Granderson had a hit and an RBI and Robinson Cano had a hit and two RBI. Nick Swisher had a hit, Raul Ibanez had a hit and Eric Chavez had a hit. Ichiro Suzuki had a hit and an RBI, Russell Martin had a hit and an RBI and Ramiro Pena had a hit. Jeter and Ibanez each hit a double. Cano hit a homerun. The Yankees were 2-8 with runners in scoring position and they left six men on base.

Markakis had three hits and two RBI, J.J. Hardy drew a walk and Chris Davis had a hit and four RBI. Adam Jones had a couple of hits, Matt Wieters had a hit and Lew Ford had a hit. Betemit had three hits and two RBI, Mark Reynolds had a hit and an RBI and Omar Quintanilla had a hit and two RBI. Reynolds, Ford, Betemit and Jones each hit a double. Davis and Markakis each hit a homerun. The Orioles were 6-14 with runners in scoring position and they left three men on base. Tillman committed an error and Ford had an outfield assist.

The Yankees scored five runs in the bottom of the first and the Orioles scored seven in the top of the second inning. Cano hit a two run homerun in the first for the Yankees. The Orioles scored all of their runs with two outs and Nova just missed having a ground ball back to him that would of ended the inning with just one run allowed. The big blow for the Orioles was the grand slam by Davis. Betemit hit an RBI double in the third to make it an 8-5 Orioles lead. Betemit hit an RBI single in the fifth to make it 9-5. In the eighth Markakis hit a two run homerun making it 11-5. That would be the final score.

The Yankees have now lost four games in a row and are trying to avoid a three game sweep on Wednesday afternoon. The Yankees record fell to 60-43. The Orioles improved their record to 55-49. They are six games behind the Yankees in the loss column for first place in the AL East.

The New York Mets defeat the San Francisco Giants in extra innings

The New York Mets defeated the San Francisco Giants by the score of 8-7 in ten innings. The game took place at AT+T Park in San Francisco, California. Jeremy Hefner started for the Mets and hung in there. The Mets bullpen did an ok job and the offense was led by Scott Hairston. Madison Bumgarner started for the Giants and pitched well there bullpen was good and bad. The Giants offense was led by Nate Schierholtz who was traded on Tuesday afternoon. 
Hefner pitched 5 2/3 innings giving up 10 hits and four runs. He walked three and struck out five. Ramon Ramirez pitched 1/3 of an inning walking a batter, Tim Byrdak pitched one inning giving up a hit and striking out two and Jon Rauch pitched a perfect inning. Bobby Parnell pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up two hits and two runs, Josh Edgin got charged with a blown save but also won his first game of the season. He pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up two hits and a walk with two strikeouts and Manny Acosta saved his first game of the season. He pitched one inning giving up a hit and a run with two walks. Bumgarner pitched six innings giving up six hits and two runs with two walks and nine strikeouts. Brad Penny pitched a perfect inning, Sergio Romo pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up four hits and four runs with a strikeout and Javier Lopez pitched 1 1/3 perfect innings. Santiago Casilla lost his fifth game of the season pitching 1/3 of an inning giving up two hits and two runs with a walk and a strikeout. Clay Hensley pitched 2/3 of an inning striking out one.

Ruben Tejada had a hit, Andres Torres had two hits and Jordany Valdespin had a hit. David Wright had a hit, Hairston had two hits and three RBI and Jason Bay had a hit and drew two walks. Ronny Cedeno had a hit and two RBI, Justin Turner had a hit and an RBI and Mike Baxter had a hit. Rob Johnson had a hit, two RBI and drew a walk. Cedeno and Turner each hit a double and Hairston hit two homeruns. The Mets were 3-8 with runners in scoring position and they left eight men on base. Hairston, Bay and Valdespin each had a stolen base. Johnson had a passed ball.

Marco Scutaro had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk, Ryan Theriot had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk and Melky Cabrera had two hits and an RBI. Buster Posey had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk, Eli Whiteside had a walk and Schierholtz had three hits, two RBI and drew a walk. Brandon Belt had two hits, Brandon Crawford had a hit and drew a walk and Justin Christian drew a walk. Bumgarner had a hit, Aubrey Huff had an RBI and Joaquin Arias had a hit. Posey hit two doubles, Scutaro and Schierholtz each hit a double. The Giants were 5-18 with runners in scoring position and they left 15 men on base. Theriot committed an error.

Scutaro had a sacrifice fly in the third to give the Giants a 1-0 lead. In the fourth Cedeno hit a two run double to give the Mets a 2-1 lead. In the fifth Cabrera hit an RBI double to tie the game at two. Aubrey Huff grounded out to score a run and Theriot hit an RBI single in the sixth and it was 4-2 Giants. In the eighth Hairston hit a two run homerun to tie the game at four. Turner hit an RBI double and Turner hit an RBI single and it was 6-4 Mets. In the ninth Posey and Schierholtz each hit an RBI double to tie the game at six. Hairston hit a solo homerun and Johnson had a safety squeeze which produced a run to make it an 8-6 game in favor of the Mets. The Giants would score their final run in the bottom of the tenth. Schierholtz hit an RBI single.

The Mets won their second game in a row and their record improved to 50-53. The Giants record dropped to 55-47. The two teams will continue their four game series on Tuesday night.

Yankees Monday night postgame notes

Turns out, Mark Teixeira actually hurt himself last night. He was trying to play through it tonight, and landing awkwardly on his glove wasn’t part of the plan.
“Yesterday, third at-bat against Doubront, swung through a pitch and it just didn’t feel right,” Teixeira explained. “Played through it yesterday. Got a lot of treatment last night. I had treatment today. It just didn’t feel good again today. And then when I dove, I landed right on my glove and I just tweaked it even more. I went back in the dugout, in the clubhouse, tried to swing the bat and just couldn’t do it.”

Here are the Monday night postgame notes after the Yankees dropped their third straight.  They are in a tough stretch right now but that is why building up that big lead is important.  They aren't in any imminent danger like some will think.  The notes are courtesy of the Lohud Yankees blog and my thoughts mixed in. 

Teixeira will go for an MRI tomorrow. He said he’ll almost certainly miss tomorrow night’s game, but his concern is “low” that this is a significant injury.  If there is nothing major there, it won't hurt to rest him a few days and then have him back and ready to go the rest of the season. 

“Not crazy concerned because like I said, I tried to play through it,” he said. “It’s one of those things if you really hurt yourself bad, you’re out and you can’t do much. I was kind of nursing it today when I was swinging so hopefully it’s just a couple of days and I can get back out there. … More achy and sore than major pain. That’s why I feel okay about it. Hopefully it’s not too bad.”

Of course, if it is serious, the Yankees won’t have much time to make a significant move to find a replacement at first base. Baseball’s trade deadline is Tuesday at 4 p.m. ET, and Brian Cashman said before tonight game that he had nothing in the works. He indicated that there was no sense of urgency because the Yankees expected to get several key pieces — Joba Chamberlain, Alex Rodriguez, Andy Pettitte — off the disabled list before the end of the season. Adding Teixeira to that listed of wounded, though, would be yet another significant blow.  I would agree with Cashman on this, the Yankees are tied up with a few guys with big contracts.  They have a good team, good enough to be the best team in the AL at this point, why make any major changes when you know you will get some guys back healthy and be better with them. 
“It’s a big concern,” Joe Girardi said. “He’s a huge part of our lineup and hopefully it’s only a couple of days, but we’ll find out more tomorrow.”

The Yankees have now lost three in a row and eight of their past 11. Six of those eight losses have been by one run. “I think you’d be more concerned if you were getting pounded,” Girardi said. “We’ve had a chance to win a lot of those eight of 11 games. If you get yourself in enough of those opportunities, you’re going to start to win them. I think we’re playing pretty decent baseball. We’re pitching well. It’s just been a lot of those types of games.”  It is just one of those streaks, in baseball this happens to everyone.  It is a long season and there are your ups and downs, you just hope there are more ups. 

By the way, Russell Branyan is on the Triple-A disabled list, so he’s not a first-base option right now. If the Yankees had to fill a first-base hole from within, it might be more likely that they would call up an outfielder — Chris Dickerson, Jack Cust, maybe even Ronnier Mustelier — and use Nick Swisher at first base. But that’s just a guess.  Swisher is a capable first baseman and they can keep Ichiro in right field for now.  He will eventually go to left field when Swisher gets back in right field. 
Teixeira said his swing hurts from both sides. “It’s probably worse right-handed, because that’s how I hurt it with a right-handed swing,” he said. “But I feel it from both sides.”

The Yankees have homered in 18 straight home games, the second-longest such streak at the current Yankee Stadium. They homered in 20 straight in 2009.

Ichiro Suzuki’s home run was his first as a Yankee and the 100th of his career. He seemed to care more about hitting his first with the Yankees than hitting his 100th overall. “I’ve been playing for 11 and a half years,” he said. “So 100 home runs, not that I’m embarrassed, but it’s not something to make a big deal out of.”  I would agree it isn't part of his game really, its not like it is 300. 

 Ichiro on hitting his first homer for the Yankees: “That was very special. To go out there and have the fans react the way they did toward me, that was very special.”

The Yankees had a leadoff hit in both the eighth and ninth innings and couldn’t get a run across. Raul Ibanez was especially mad at himself for striking out immediately after Swisher doubled in the ninth. “I was trying to get the ball on the ground,” Ibanez said. “I was trying to get the guy over to third base. I just didn’t get it done, and I’ve got to be better about it.”  I would agree with that, more times then not he does get the job done, that is probably why he is so hard on himself.  The Yankees as a whole are not good at this though.

 Pretty typical Freddy Garcia start. He wasn’t great, but he didn’t walk anyone and he limited the damage enough to give the Yankees a chance. The only RBI hit he allowed was a home run in the third inning. “The home run, he don’t really hit that ball (well), but when you play here, that happens,” Garcia said.

On what made Miguel Gonzalez so effective: “I don’t think it’s a matter of trying too hard,” Girardi said. “I think the kid did a nice job of mixing in his offspeed when he was behind in the count, expanding when he was ahead in the count, using his fastball on both sides of the plate.”

Last word goes to Girardi, speaking about the Yankees injuries this season: “It is concerning, but no one is going to feel sorry for us. We got guys that are still capable of getting the job done, and that’s what you have to do. We’ve been able to overcome a lot of things up to this point, you just continue to do it.”

The Yankees drop their third straight as they lose to the Orioles at home

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Baltimore Orioles by the score of 5-4 on Monday night. The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. Freddy Garcia started for the Yankees and pitched ok and Eric Chavez led the Yankees offense. Mike Gonzalez pitched very well and then got into some trouble late and Nick Markakis led the Orioles offense. 
Garcia pitched six innings giving up nine hits and three runs with two strikeouts. He lost his fifth game of the season. Boone Logan pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and two runs with a walk and two strikeouts, David Phelps pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a hit and a walk with a strikeout and Clay Rapada gave up two hits without recording an out. Chad Qualls faced two batters and retired them both. Gonzalez won his third game of the season pitching 6 2/3 innings giving up six hits and four runs with no walks and eight strikeouts. Darren O’Day faced one batter and retired him, Strop pitched one inning giving up a hit and Jim Johnson saved his 31^st game of the season pitching an inning giving up a hit and a walk and striking out two.

Derek Jeter had two hits, Nick Swisher had a hit and Raul Ibanez had two hits and an RBI. Chavez had two hits, two RBI and drew a walk, Ichiro Suzuki had a hit and an RBI and Swisher had a double. Ibanez, Chavez and Suzuki each hit a homerun. The Yankees were 1-4 with runners in scoring position and they left five men on base. Suzuki had a stolen base, Stewart had a passed ball.

Markakis had three hits and two RBI, J.J. Hardy had two hits and an RBI and Chris Davis had a hit. Adam Jones had a hit, Matt Wieters had a hit and drew a walk and Wilson Betemit had two hits and an RBI. Mark Reynolds had two hits and Omar Quintanilla had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk. Jones, Markakis and Reynolds each had a double. Betemit hit a homerun. The Orioles were 1-5 with runners in scoring position and they left seven men on base.

In the second Chavez hit an RBI single to make it 1-0 Yankees. The Orioles tied the game at one on a Betemit solo homerun in the second. In the fifth the Orioles took a 3-1 lead on a Quintanilla and Markakis sacrifice fly. Ibanez hit a solo homerun in the fifth which cut the lead to 3-2 Orioles. The Orioles increased their lead to 5-2 in the seventh. Markakis hit an RBI double and Hardy hit an RBI single. Chavez and Suzuki hit back-to-back homeruns in the seventh to make it a 5-4 game and that would be how it ended.

The Yankees have now lost three in a row and eight of their last 11 games. The eight losses in that frame had six of them come by two runs or less. The Yankees division lead is now 6 ½ over the Baltimore Orioles. The Yankees record dropped to 60-42 and the Orioles record improved to 54-49. The two teams will play game two of their three game series on Tuesday night.

The Yankees lose in extra innings to the Red Sox

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Boston Red Sox on Sunday night by the score of 3-2. The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. Hiroki Kuroda started for the Yankees and pitched very well, David Robertson didn’t out of the bullpen. Russell Martin led the Yankees offense. Felix Doubront pitched very well for the Red Sox and so did Alfredo Aceves. Pedro Ciriaco led the Sox offense. 
Kuroda pitched eight innings giving up two runs on seven hits. He walked one and struck out four. Rafael Soriano pitched a perfect inning and Robertson lost his fourth game of the season pitching an inning giving up two hits and a run with a walk. Doubront pitched 6 1/3 innings giving up four hits and a run with five walks and eight strikeouts. Matt Albers gave up a hit without recording an out, Andrew Miller pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and a run with a strikeout and Alfredo Aceves blew a save but got his second win of the season. He pitched 2 1/3 innings giving up a hit and two strikeouts.

Derek Jeter had a hit, Curtis Granderson drew a walk and Nick Swisher had a couple of hits. Andruw Jones had a hit and drew a walk, Martin had two hits, two RBI and drew two walks and Ichiro Suzuki had a hit. Jayson Nix drew a walk. Jones hit a double, Martin hit a homerun. The Yankees were 2-7 with runners in scoring position and left ten men on base. Suzuki had a stolen base.

Jacoby Ellsbury had two hits, Carl Crawford had a hit and Adrian Gonzalez had two hits. Cody Ross had a hit, Jarrod Saltalamacchia drew two walks and Will Middlebrooks had a hit. Ryan Sweeney had a hit and two RBI, Pedro Ciriaco had a hit and an RBI. Sweeney and Ellsbury each hit a double and the Red Sox were 3-9 with runners in scoring position and they left four men on base.

Sweeney hit a two run double in the second. Martin hit a solo homerun in the seventh and an RBI single in the eighth to tie the game at two. In the tenth Ciriaco had an RBI single to give the Red Sox a 3-2 lead and that was the final score.

The Red sox won two out of three in this series. The Yankees record dropped to 60-41 and the Red Sox improved their record to 51-51. The Yankees will begin a three game series with the Baltimore Orioles on Monday night.

The Mets win behind a dominant Dickey

The New York Mets defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks by the score of 5-1 on Sunday afternoon. The game took place at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona. R.A. Dickey started and pitched really well and Scott Hairston led the Mets offense. Joe Saunders started for the Diamondbacks and pitched ok and their offense was led by Paul Goldschmidt. 
Dickey pitched seven innings giving up four hits and an unearned run. He walked three and struck out eight and picked up his 14^th win of the season. Jon Rauch pitched a perfect inning and Bobby Parnell pitched an inning giving up a walk and striking out two. Saunders pitched seven innings giving up eight hits and four runs with three walks and five strikeouts. Saunders record dropped to 5-7 on the season. Brad Bergesen pitched two innings giving up two hits and a run with a walk and a strikeout.

Ruben Tejada had a hit, Daniel Murphy had two hits and an RBI and David Wright had a hit, an RBI and drew two walks. Hairston had two hits and two RBI, Jason Bay drew a walk and Andres Torres had two hits and drew a walk. Josh Thole had a hit and an RBI, Dickey had a hit. Wright, Hairston, Murphy and Thole each hit a double. The Mets were 4-14 with runners in scoring position and they left nine men on base. Wright had a stolen base, Tejada committed an error and Thole had two passed balls.

Aaron Hill had a hit, Goldschmidt had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk and Miguel Montero drew two walks. Gerardo Parra had a hit and drew a walk, the Diamondbacks were 1-6 with runners in scoring position and they left seven men on base.

Wright and Hairston hit RBI doubles for the Mets in the first. The score was 2-0 Mets after an inning. Hairston hit an RBI single in the fifth inning to make it 3-0. In the sixth Murphy hit an RBI double to make it 4-0. The Diamondbacks finally broke through in the bottom of the sixth with an RBI single from Goldschmidt. Thole hit and RBI double in the eighth inning to make it 5-1, that was the final score.

The Mets record improved to 49-53 and the Diamondbacks record dropped to 51-51.The teams split the four game series and now the Mets will head to San Francisco to begin a four game series on Monday night.