Saturday, May 2, 2015

New York Yankees win a close one in Boston



The New York Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox on Friday night.  The game took place at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts and the final score was 3-2.  CC Sabathia started and pitched well for the Yankees.  The Yankees bullpen was great as usual and Jacoby Ellsbury and Carlos Beltran led the offense with two hits each. 

Sabathia pitched six innings giving up seven hits and two runs with two walks and three strikeouts.  Esmil Rogers won his first game of the season pitching an inning and walking one, Dellin Betances pitched an inning giving up a hit and a walk with two strikeouts and Andrew Miller saved his ninth game of the season.  He pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout. 

Justin Masterson pitched six innings giving up six hits and two runs with three walks and two strikeouts.  Tommy Layne pitched an inning giving up a hit and a strikeout, Junichi Tazawa lost his first game of the season pitching an ininng and giving up two hits and a run and Robbie Ross pitched an inning giving up two walks and striking out one. 

Ellsbury had two hits, Brett Gardner haa hit anddrew a walk and Mark Teixeira drew two walks.  Brian McCann had a hit and an RBI, Beltran had two hits and an RBI and Chris Young drew a walk.  Chase Headley had a hit, Alex Rodriguez had a hit and an RBI and Didi Gregorius had a hit and drew a walk.  Beltran and Headley each hit a double and Rodriguez hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 2-11 with runners in scoring position and left 12 men on base.  Gregorius committed an error. 

Mookie Betts had an RBI, Dustin Pedroia had a hit and drew two walks and David Ortiz had a hit.  Mike Napoli had a hit an ddrew a walk, Pablo Sandoval had two hits and Allen Craig had a hit and an RBI.  Xander Bogaerts had a hit and drew a walk, Ryan Hanigan had a hit and Bogaerts, Hanigan and Napoli each hit a double and Craig hit a homerun.  The Red sox were 0-6 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base. 

In the first Beltran hit an RBI double to give the Yankees an early 1-0 lead.  The Red Sox answered back in the third with a Betts sac fly.  In the fourth Craig hit a solo homerun to give the Red Sox a 2-1 lead.  The Yankees tied the game in the seventh on a McCann RBI single and in the eighth Rodriguez hit a pinch hit solo homerun to give the Yankees a 3-2 lead.  3-2 would be the final score of the game.  It was also Rodriguez 660th homerun tying Willie Mays for fourth on the all-time homerun list. 

The Yankees and Red Sox will play game two of their three game series on Saturday afternoon. 

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