The New York Yankees blow a 2-0 lead and lose 6-3 to Cano and the Seattle Mariners

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night.  The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score was 6-3.  CC Sabathia started and pitched ok, he had one bad inning although he wasn't helped by his defense.  The offense didn't do much but Brett Gardner and Ichiro Suzuki each had two hits. 

Sabathia pitched 5 innings giving up four runs on nine hits.  He walked none and struck out six but took his third loss of the season.  Dellin Betances pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up two hits and two runs with four strikeouts, Preston Claiborne pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up two hits and had a strikeout and Chris Leroux pitched an inning with two hits and had a strikeout. 

Chris Young pitched 5 2/3 innings giving up three hits and two runs with one earned.  He walked three and struck out three and won his first game. Charlie Furbush pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and had a strikeout, Danny Farquhar pitched an inning giving up a hit and had two strikeouts and Fernando Rodney pitched an inning giving up three hits and one run with three strikeouts. 

Brett Gardner had two hits and an RBI, Derek Jeter had a hit and Mark Teixeira had a hit and an RBI.  Yangervis Solarte had a hit and drew a walk, Ichiro Suzuki had two hits and drew one walk and Brian Roberts had a hit and drew a walk.  Solarte and Roberts hit a double, Teixeira hit a homerun and the Yankees were 1-10 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base.  Gardner had a stolen base. 

Abraham  Almonte had a hit, Robinson Cano had a hit and an RBI and Corey Hart had a hit and two RBI.  Justin Smoak had two hits and an RBI, Cole Gillespie had a hit and Dustin Ackley had two hits and an RBI.  Kyle Seager had a hit, Mike Zunino had four hits and an RBI and Willie Bloomquist had two hits.  Gillespie and Hart each hit a double.  The Mariners were 5-18 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base.  Seager and Cano each had a stolen base.  Zunino and Smoak committed an error each. 

In the second Teixeira hit a solo homerun giving the Yankees a 1-0 lead.  In the third Roberts scored on a throwing error by the catcher to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead.  In the fifth Cano had an RBI groundout to cut the lead to 2-1.  Hart hit a two run double to give the Mariners a 3-2 lead and then they added another run on a Smoak RBI single.  In the seventh Ackley hit an RBI single to give the Mariners a 5-2 lead.  Zunino hit an RBI single to extend the lead to 6-2.  In the ninth Gardner hit an RBI single to make it a 6-3 game which was the final.  The two teams will play game two on Wednesday night weather permitting and then finish the series on Thursday night.