The New York Yankees defeated the
Tampa Bay Rays on Friday night. The game
took place at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida and the final score
was 5-4. Adam Warren started and didn't
pitch that well. The bullpen was great
and Rodriguez led the offense with a couple of homeruns and four RBI.
Warren pitched four innings giving
up six hits and four runs with two walks and two strikeouts. Esmil Rogers pitched 2 1/3 innings giving up
a walk and struck out two, Justin Wilson pitched to one batter and struck out
one and Dellin Betances pitched an inning giving up a hit and striking out one. Betances won his second game of the season. Andrew Miller picked up his third game of the
season pitching 1 1/3 innings giving up a
hit and striking out three.
Nathan Karns pitched five innings
giving up two hits and two runs with four walks and seven strikeouts. Ernesto Frieri pitched an inning giving up a
hit and two runs with a walk and a strikeout, C.J. Riefenhauser pitched an
innin ggiving up a walk and Kevin Jepsen picked up his first loss of the season
pitching an inning giving up two hits and a run. Steve Geltz pitched a perfect inning with a
strikeout.
Jacoby Ellsbury drew a walk, Carlos
Beltran had a hit and drew a walk and Mark Teixeira drew a walk. Brian McCann drew a walk, Rodriguez had three
hits and four RBI and Stephen Drew had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk. Chris Young drew a walk and Rodriguez and
Drew each hit a homerun. The Yankees
were 1-4 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base. Gardner had a stolen base.
Steven Souza Jr. had two hits,
Asdrubal Cabrera had a hit and Evan Longoria had a hit and drew a walk. Desmond Jennings drew a walk, Allan Dykstra
had a hit and three RBI and Logan Forsythe had three hits and an RBI. Bobby Wilson drew a walk, Dykstra hit a
homerun and Forsythe hit a homerun and the Rays were 1-3 with runners in
scoring position and left six men on base.
Souza Jr. had a stolen base.
In the second Rodriguez hit a solo
homerun to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead and in the fourth Drew made it 2-0 with
a solo homerun. In the bottom of the
fourth the Rays scored all four of their runs.
Dykstra hit a three run homerun and then Forsythe hit a solo homerun as
they went back-to-back. The Rays had a
4-2 lead before Rodriguez hit his second homerun of the game in the sixth to
tie the game at four. In the eighth
Rodriguez gave the Yankees a 5-4 lead with an RBI single and that would be the
final score.
The two teams will play game two of
their three game series on Saturday night.
Masahiro Tanaka will go up against Jake Odorizzi.
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