The New York Yankees defeated the
Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday evening. The
game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score
was 5-1. Masahiro Tanaka started for the
Yankees and dominated. Brett Gardner and
Jacoby Ellsbury each had two hits and Gary Sanchez had two RBI to lead the
offense.
Tanaka pitched 7 1/3 innings giving
up five hits and a run with no walks and ten strikeouts. He won his 13th game of the season. Adam Warren pitched to two batters and
retired them both, Richard Bleier pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and
he struck out one and Tyler Clippard pitched to one batter and retired
him.
Chris Archer lost his 18th game of
the season pitching seven innings and giving up four hits and three runs with a
walk and six strikeouts. Enny Romero
pitched an inning giving up two hits and two runs.
Gardner had two hits, Ellsbury had
two hits and two RBI and Sanchez had a hit, two RBI and drew a walk. Didi Gregorius had an RBI, Starlin Castro had
a hit and it was a double. Ellsbury hit
a double and Ellsbury and Sanchez each hit a homerun. The Yankees were 0-3 with runners in scoring
position and left three men on base.
Logan Forsythe had a hit, Nick
Franklin had a hit and Corey Dickerson had two hits. Mikie Mahtook had a hit, Bobby Wilson had a
hit and an RBI and Franklin and Forsythe each hit a double. Wilson hit a homerun and the Rays were 0-6
with runners in scoring position and left six men on base. Forsythe committed an error.
In the sixth Ellsbury and Sanchez
hit back-to-back homeruns to give the Yankees a 3-0 lead. In the eight Wilson hit a solo homerun to cut
the lead to 3-1. The Yankees would tack
on a couple of runs in the eighth on a Sanchez sac fly and a Gregorius sac
fly.
The Yankees have won the first
three games of this four game series and have won seven in a row overall. They are 6-0 on this current ten game home stand. The Yankees will finish their series with the
Rays on Sunday afternoon and then begin a three game series with the Los
Angeles Dodgers on Monday night.
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