New York Yankees lose a wild one to the Baltimore Orioles

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Baltimore Orioles on Friday afternoon.  The game took place at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota, Florida and the final score was 11-10.  Ivan Nova started and didn't pitch well.  Brett Gardner led the offense with a couple of hits and an RBI. 

Nova pitched 4 2/3 innings giving up five hits and six runs with five of them being earned.  He walked three and struck out five.  Johnny Barbato pitched 1 1/3 innings with a strikeout, Nick Goody pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with a walk and James Pazos pitched an inning with a couple of strikeouts.  Nick Rumbelow pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with two walks and Matt Tracy gave up two hits and three runs with one of them being earned and a walk without recording an out. 

Gardner had two hits and an RBI, Ben Gamel had a hit and an RBI and Didi Gregorius had a hit.  Starlin Castro had an RBI, Ronald Torreyes had a hit and an RBI and Chase Headley had a hit and an RBI.  Rob Refsnyder had a hit, Dustin Ackley had a hit and drew a walk and Deibinson Romero drew a walk.  Chris Parmelee drew a walk, Kyle Higashioka had a hit and drew a walk and Chris Denorfia had a hit, three RBI and drew a walk.  Jake Skole had two hits and an RBI, Cesar Puello had two hits and Dustin Fowler had a hit.  Gregorius, Puello and Higashioka each hit a double, Gardner hit a triple and Denorfia hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 6-17 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base.  Castro comitted an error and Refsnyder comitted two errors. 

In the second Denorfia hit a three run homerun to give the Yankees the 3-0 lead.  In the bottom of the second Mark Trumbo hit a solo homerun to cut the lead to 3-1.  In the third Castro hit a sac fly to extend the Yankees lead to 4-1.  Headley hit an RBI single to make it 5-1 still in the third.  In the bottom of the third Caleb Joseph hit a two run homerun to cut the lead to 5-3 and in the bottom of the fourth J.J. Hardy hit a two run homerun to tie the game at five.  In the bottom of the fifth Chris Davis hit an RBI single making it 6-5 Orioles.  In the seventh Gardner hit an RBI triple to tie the game at six and Torreyes hit an RBI single giving the Yankees a 7-6 lead.  Machado hit a two run homerun in the bottom of the seventh to tie the game at seven.  In the eighth Gamel hit an RBI groundout to make it 8-7 Yankees and in the ninth Nolan Reimold tied the game on a solo homerun.  In the tenth Skole hit an RBI single and Kozma grounded into a double play and a run scored giving the Yankees a 10-8 lead.  In the bottom of the tenth Reimold hit an RBI single cutting the lead to 10-9, Garabez Rosa hit a two run single to give the Orioles a 11-10 walk-off win. 

The Yankees record fell to 9-12 with a couple of tie games on the spring.  They will play the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon in Dunedin, Florida.