The New York Yankees rally and defeat the Detroit Tigers on a walk-off homerun

The New York Yankees defeated the Detroit Tigers by the score of 9-8 on Tuesday night.  The game took place at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida.  Esmil Rogers started for the Yankees and wasn't very good, Dellin Betances also continued to struggle.  Mark Teixeira had a couple of hits and Ramon Flores had the game winning homerun. 

Rogers pitched three innings giving up five hits and five runs with one of them being earned.  he walked two and struck out two.  Andrew Miller pitched an inning giving up a walk and striking out one, Betances pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with a walk and Justin Wilson pitched an inning striking out one.  Nick Rumbelow pitched an inning giving up two hits and two runs with one of them being earned.  He walked one and struck out two, James Pazos pitched an inning giving up a walk and striking out three and Diego Moreno picked up his first win of the spring pitching an inning and walking one. 

Brett Gardner had a hit and drew a walk, Jonathan Galvez drew a walk and Carlos Beltran had a hit and an RBI.  Aaron Judge drew a walk, Teixeira had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk and Francisco Arcia had an RBI.  John Ryan Murphy had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk, Alex Rodriguez had a hit and drew a walk and Kyle Higashioka had an RBI and drew a walk.  Stephen Drew had a hit, Ali Castillo drew a walk and Chris Young had a hit.  Flores had a hit and three RBI, Didi Gregorius ahd a hit and an RBI and Beltran, Teixeira, Young and Gregorius each hit a double.  Flores hit a homerun and the Yankees were 4-12 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base.  Gardner had two stolen bases and Judge had a stolen base.  Rogers committed an error and Arcia committed two errors and McCann had a passed ball. 

In the first Yoenis Cespedes hit an RBI single to give the Tigers a 1-0 lead and in the bottom of the first the Yankees came right back to tie the game at one.  Teixeira hit an RBI double and in the second Ian Kinsler hit a two run single to give the Tigers a 3-1 lead.  J.D. Martinez hit a two run double to give the Tigers a 5-1 lead.  In the third Beltran hit a sacrifice fly to cut the lead to 5-2.  Nick Castellanos hit an RBI single in the fifth to give the Tigers a 6-2 lead.  In the seventh Alex Avila hit an RBI double to push the Tigers lead to 7-2 and Andrew Romine reached on a fielding error and a run scored to push the lead to 8-2 Tigers.  In the seventh Gregorius hit an RBI double and Arcia hit an RBI groundout to cut the lead to 8-4.  Higashioka had an RBI walk to trim the lead down to 8-5.  In the ninth Murphy hit an RBI single to make it an 8-6 game and then Flores hit a three run homerun to make it 9-8 and win the game. 

The Yankees will take on the New York Mets on Wednesday afternoon at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida.