The New York Yankees blow another late lead and lose to the Oakland Athletics

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night.  The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score was 5-2.  Hiroki Kuroda started for the Yankees and pitched great.  Dellin Betances blew the lead with two outs in the eighth and Adam Warren was terrible in relief.  Mark Teixeira returned and had two hits and two RBI. 

Kuroda pitched 6 2/3 innings giving up one run on three hits.  He walked one and struck out two, Betances pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and a run with a walk and two strikeouts, David Robertson pitched a perfect inning and Warren pitched 1/3 of an inning and giving up three runs and three hits with a walk.  Warren lost his third game of the season and Preston Claiborne pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a walk. 

Scott Kazmir pitched 6 1/3 innings giving up six hits and two runs with two walks and 10 strikeouts.  Fernando Abad pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a walk and a strikeout, Luke Gregorson pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout and Dan Otero pitched an inning giving up a hit and winning his fifth game of the season.  Sean Doolittle pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout and picked up his sixth save of the season. 

Brett Gardner had a hit, Jacoby Ellsbury had a hit and drew a walk and Teixeira had two hits and two RBI.  Yangervis Solarte had a hit and drew a walk, Scott Sizemore had a hit and John Ryan Murphy drew a walk.  Brian McCann had a hit, Teixeira hit a homerun and the Yankees were 1-8 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base.  Ellsbury had a stolen base and committed an error. 

Coco Crisp had a hit and drew a walk, John Jaso drew a walk and Brandon Moss had two hits and two RBI.  Yoenis Cespedes had a hit and drew a walk, Jed Lowrie had a hit and an RBI and Alberto Callaspo drew a walk.  Stephen Vogt had a hit and an RBI, Kyle Blanks had a hit and an RBI and  Vogt and Lowrie each hit a double.  Moss hit two homeruns and the Athletics were 1-4 with runners in scoring position and left four men on base. 

The Yankees took a 1-0 lead in the first on an RBI single by Teixeira.  The Athletics tied the game at one in the fifth on a Moss solo homerun.  The Yankees took a 2-1 lead in the sixth on a Teixeira solo homerun.  The Athletics tied the game at two in the eighth on a RBI double by Vogt.  In the tenth the Athletics scored three runs to win the game 5-2.  The Yankees had their chances in the seventh and eighth but failed to capitalize.  In the seventh they had first and second no outs and didn't score and in the eighth man on second and one out and didn't score.  The two teams will play game two out of three on Wednesday night.