The New York Yankees were defeated
by the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night.
The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the
final score was 5-4. Masahiro Tanaka
started for the Yankees and he didn’t pitch well but Chad Green did out of the
bullpen. Aaron Judge, Aaron Hicks and
Didi Gregorius each had two hits to lead the offense.
Tanaka pitched five innings giving
up five hits and five runs with a walk and two strikeouts. Tanaka lost his sixth game of the
season. Tommy Layne pitched to one
batter and walked him, Green pitched 3 1/3 innings giving up no hits or runs
and he struck out five and Chasen Shreve pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a
hit and he struck out one.
Drew Pomeranz started for the Red
sox and he pitched five innings giving up six hits and two runs with one of
them being earned. He walked two and
struck out seven and won his sixth game of the season. Robby Scott pitched an inning giving up two
hits and a run, Joe Kelly pitched an inning with a walk and he struck out one
and Matt Barnes pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a run. Craig Kimbrel pitched 1 1/3 innings walking
one and striking out five and he saved his 17th game of the
season.
Brett Gardner drew a walk, Judge
had two hits and drew a walk and Matt Holliday had a hit. Starlin Castro had a hit, Hicks had two hits
and drew a walk and Gregorius had two hits.
Chase Headley drew a walk, Chris Carter had a hit and an RBI and Judge
and Holliday each hit a double. Carter
hit a homerun and the Yankees were 0-10 with runners in scoring position and
left eight men on base.
Mookie Betts had a hit, Andrew
Benintendi had two hits and an RBI and Xander Bogaerts had an RBI and drew a
walk. Mitch Moreland had a hit, two RBI
and drew a walk, Hanley Ramirez had a hit and an RBI and Jackie Bradley
Jr. had a hit. Bradley Jr. hit a double and Moreland,
Ramirez and Benintendi each hit a homerun.
The Red Sox were 0-3 with runners in scoring position and left three men
on base. Betts committed an error.
In the first Bogaerts hit an RBI
ground out to give the Red Sox a 1-0 lead.
In the second Gregorius hit an RBI single to tie the game at one. In the fourth Moreland hit a two-run homerun
to give the Red Sox a 3-1 lead and one batter later Ramirez hit a solo homerun
to extend the lead to 4-1. In the fifth
Benintendi hit a solo homerun to extend the lead to 5-1. Carter hit a solo homerun in the bottom of
the fifth to cut the lead to 5-2. In the
sixth Gregorius grounded into a double play and a run scored to make it
5-3. In the eighth Gregorius struck out
but a wild pitch allowed him to reach base and a run to score making it a 5-4
game and that would be the final score.
The two teams will play game two of
three on Wednesday night.
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