New York Yankees defeat the Chicago Cubs in a long 18 inning marathon

The New York Yankees defeated the Chicago Cubs on Sunday night.  The game took place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois and the final score was 5-4.  Luis Severino started for the Yankees and he pitched great and the offense was led by Jacoby Ellsbury, Matt Holliday and Brett Gardner who each had two hits. 

Severino pitched seven innings giving up four hits and a run with a walk and nine strikeouts.  Dellin Betances pitched an inning giving up a hit and a walk with two strikeouts, Aroldis Chapman blew his first save of the season pitching 2/3 of an inning and giving up three hits and three runs with two walks and two strikeouts and Tyler Clippard pitched a perfect 1 1/3 innings with three strikeouts.  Adam Warren pitched two innings giving up a hit and he walked two with two strikeouts, Jonathan Holder pitched three innings giving up a hit and a walk with three strikeouts and Chasen Shreve picked up his first win of the season pitching three innings and giving up a hit and three walks and striking out five. 

Jon Lester started for the Cubs and he pitched seven innings and gave up three hits and two runs with one of them being earned.  He walked two and struck out nine.  Justin Grimm pitched two innings and gave up three hits and two runs with a strikeout, Wade Davis pitched a perfect inning with three strikeouts and Carl Edwards Jr. pitched a perfect inning with three strikeouts.  Koji Uehara pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout, Mike Montomery pitched two innings giving up a hit and a walk with two strikeouts and Brian Duensing pitched two innings giving up a hit and two walks with two strikeouts.  Pedro Strop took his second loss of the season pitching two innings and giving up two hits and a run with a strikeout. 

Ellsbury had two hits, two RBI and drew a walk, Aaron Hicks had a hit and drew two walks and Holliday had two hits.  Ronald Torreyes had a hit, Starlin Castro had two RBI and Aaron Judge had a hit and an RBI.  Gary Sanchez had a hit and drew two walks, Gardner had two hits and Judge hit a triple and Ellsbury hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 1-13 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base.  Hicks, Holliday, Gregorius each had a stolen base and Ellsbury was picked off. 

Kyle Schwarber had two hits and drew two walks, Kris Bryant had a hit and drew two walks and Anthony Rizzo had a hit, an RBI and drew three walks.  Ben Zobrist had a hit, Addison Russell drew two walks and John Jay had a hit and drew a walk.  Willson Contreras had a hit, Albert Almora Jr. had two hits and an RBI and Javier Baez had two hits and two RBI.  Schwarber and Rizzo each hit a double and Baez hit a homerun.  The Cubs were 2-15 with runners in scoring position and left 18 men on base.  Baez had a stolen base and Bryant and Contreras each committed an error.  Contreras had a pickoff. 

In the first Castro hit an RBI ground out to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.  In the third Baez hit a solo homerun to tie the game at one.  In the seventh Judge hit an RBI triple to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead.  In the eighth Ellsbury hit a two-run homerun to extend the lead to 4-1.  In the ninth Almora Jr. hit an RBI single to make it 4-2, Baez hit an RBI single to cut the lead to 4-3 and Rizzo was hit by a pitch to tie the game at four.  In the 18^th inning Castro reached on a fielder’s choice and had an RBI to make it 5-4 and that would be the final score. 

The Yankees swept the three game series and will head to Cincinnati for a two game series beginning on Monday night.