The New York
Yankees defeated the Houston Astros on Monday night. The game took place at Minute Maid Park in
Houston, Texas and the final score was 2-1.
The day started with the Yankees trading away their closer Aroldis
Chapman for four players and ended with new closer or old closer depending on
how you look at it closing it out.
Michael Pineda started and pitched really well and the bullpen closed it
out. Carlos Beltran, Chase Headley and
Austin Romine each had two hits.
Pineda pitched
seven innings giving up a run on five hits.
He walked two and struck out eight and won his fifth game of the
season. Dellin Betances pitched a
perfect inning striking out the side and Andrew Miller pitched an inning giving
up a hit and he struck out one and saved his eighth game of the season.
Dallas Keuchel
pitched 7 2/3 innings giving up six hits and two runs with no walks and five
strikeouts. He lost his 10th game of the
season. Luke Gregerson pitched 1 1/3
innings giving up a hit.
Beltran had two
hits, Didi Gregorius had a hit and Headley had two hits and an RBI. Romine had two hits and an RBI, Gregorius,
Beltran and Romine each hit a double.
The Yankees were 1-10 with runners in scoring position and left four men
on base. Torreyes had a stolen base and
Castro committed an error.
George Springer
had a hit and an RBI, Jose Altuve had a hit and Carlos Correa drew a walk. Luis Valbuena had three hits and drew a walk,
Carlos Gomez had a hit and Springer hit a homerun. The Astros were 0-5 with runners in scoring
position and left seven men on base.
Valbuena and a Gomez had a stolen base.
In the first
Springer hit a solo homerun to give the Astros a 1-0 lead. In the fifth Headley hit an RBI single to tie
the game at one. In the eighth Romine
hit an RBI double to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead and that would be the final
score. The teams will play game two of
three on Tuesday night.
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