The New York Yankees defeated the
Seattle Mariners on Wednesday night. The
game took place at Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington and the final score was
4-2. Masahiro Tanaka started and was
great. Brett Gardner, Derek Jeter and
Jacoby Ellsbury each had two hits.
Tanaka pitched a complete game
giving up six hits and two runs with a walk and 11 strikeouts. The two runs were on one swing in the ninth
by Cano hitting a homerun.
Chris Young pitched five innings
giving up seven hits and four runs with two walks and two strikeouts. He lost his fourth game of the season. Tom Wilhelmsen pitched three innings giving
up two hits and a walk with three strikeouts and Joe Beimel pitched an inning
giving up a hit.
Gardner had two hits and drew a
walk, Jeter had two hits and Ellsbury had two hits, an RBI and drew a
walk. Mark Teixeira had a hit, three RBI
and drew a walk, Brian McCann had a hit and Ichiro Suzuki had a hit. Brian Roberts had a hit, Teixeira hit a
homerun and the Yankees were 2-8 with runners in scoring position and left
eight men on base. Jeter had two stolen
bases.
James Jones had two hits, Robinson
Cano had a hit and two RBI and Kyle Seager had a hit. Mike Zunino had a hit, Brad Miller had a hit
and Zunino hit a double. Cano hit a
homerun and the Mariners were 1-3 with runners in scoring position and left
three men on base. Zunino committed an
error.
In the third Ellsbury hit an RBI
single to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.
Teixeira hit a three run homerun in the fifth to extend the Yankees lead
to 4-0. In the ninth Cano hit a two run
homerun to cut the lead to 4-2 and that would be the final score. The Yankees have taken the first two of the
three game series and the finale will be on Thursday night.
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