New York Yankees bounce back with win in Detroit

The New York Yankees defeated the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night.  The game took place at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan and the final score was 5-2.  Nathan Eovaldi started for the Yankees and pitched great.  Chris Young led the offense with three hits. 

Eovaldi pitched seven innings giving up eight hits and a run with a walk and four strikeouts.  Dellin Betances pitched a perfect inning with a couple of strikeouts, Chris Martin pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a run with two strikeouts and Andrew Miller picked up his fifth save of the season pitching 1/3 of an inning and giving up two walks with a strikeout. 

Kyle Lobstein pitched six innings givign up three hits and a run with four walks and three strikeouts.  He took his first loss of the season.  Ian Krol pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up two hits and two runs, Tom Gorzelanny pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a run with a walk and Al Alburquerque gave up two walks without recording an out.  Blaine Hardy pitched 2 1/3 innings giving up two hits and an unearned run with two walks and two strikeouts. 

Jacoby Ellsbury drew a walk, Brett Gardner had two hits and drew a walk and Alex Rodriguez drew two walks.  Mark Teixeira had a hit and an RBI and drew two walks.  Young had three hits and an RBI, Chase Headley drew a walk and Stephen Drew had two hits and an RBI.  Teixeira and Young each hit a double and Young and Drew each hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 1-11 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base.  Ellsbury had a stolen base and Gardner had a stolen base. 

Anthony Gose had two hits, Miguel Cabrera had a hit and Victor Martinez drew a walk.  J.D. Martinez had three hits, Yoenis Cespedes had a hit and an RBI and Nick Castellanos had a hit and drew a walk.  Alex Avila had two hits, Rajai Davis had an RBI and drew a walk and Avila, Cespedes and J.D. Martinez each hit a double.  The Tigers were 0-9 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.  Castellanos committed an error. 

In the first Teixeira hit an RBI double giving the Yankees a 1-0 lead.  In the seventh Young and Drew each hit a solo homerun to increase the lead to 3-0.  Gardner stole second base and a wild pitch allowed him to go to third and a run to score to make it 4-0 in the seventh.  Cespdes hit a sac fly in the bottom of the seventh to cut the lead to 4-1.  In the ninth McCann reached on a fielding error and a run scored to make it a 5-1 game.  In the bottom of the ninth the Tigers threatened but only scored one run.  A Davis walk made it a 5-2 game and that was the final score. 

The two teams will play game three of four on Wednesday night.  it will be David Price matching up against Adam Warren.