The New York Yankees defeated the
Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday night. The
game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score
was 3-2. Luis Severino started for the
Yankees and he pitched wonderfully.
Aaron Hicks provided the offense with two homeruns.
Severino pitched seven innings
giving up two runs on five hits. He
walked one and struck out 11 and earned his first victory of the season and
first since Sept of 2015. Dellin Betances
got himself into trouble but then out of it pitching an inning and giving up a
hit and a walk with two strikeouts and Aroldis Chapman pitched an inning giving
up a hit and he struck out two and earned his second save of the season.
Matt Andriese pitched six innings
giving up five hits and a run with three walks and five strikeouts. Erasmo Ramirez pitched 1/3 of an inning
giving up a hit and a run, Xavier Cedeno lost his first game of the season
pitching 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a run and Tommy Hunter pitched to
one batter and retired him. Danny
Farquhar pitched an inning giving up two walks and he struck out two.
Jacoby Ellsbury drew a walk, Hicks
had two hits, three RBI and drew a walk and Matt Holliday drew a walk. Starlin Castro had a hit and drew a walk,
Chase Headley had a hit and Aaron Judge drew a walk. Austin Romine had a couple of hits, Ronald
Torreyes had a hit and Romine and Castro each hit a double. Hicks hit two homeruns and the Yankees were
0-8 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base. Judge was picked off and Ellsbury had an
outfield assist.
Corey Dickerson had two hits, Evan
Longori had a hit and Logan Morrison had a hit and drew a walk. Mallex Smith had a hit, Peter Bourjos had a
hit and an RBI and Jesus Sucre had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk. Bourjos hit a homerun and the Rays were 1-4
with runners in scoring position and left six men on base. Sucre had a pickoff.
In the first Hicks hit a solo
homerun to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.
In the second Sucre hit an RBI single to tie the game at one. Bourjos hit a solo homerun in the fifth to
give the Rays a 2-1 lead. In the seventh
Hicks hit a two-run homerun to give the Yankees a 3-2 lead and that would be
the final score.
The Yankees swept the three-game
series from the Rays and will begin a three game series with the St. Louis
Cardinals on Friday night.
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