The New York Yankees defeated the
Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night. The
game took place at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the final score
was 6-3. Luis Cessa started for the
Yankees and he didn’t pitch well. The
Yankees bullpen was outstanding and the offense was led by Didi Gregorius and
Ronald Torreyes who each had three hits.
Cessa pitched 3 2/3 innings giving
up four hits and three runs with four walks and two strikeouts. Chasen Shreve won his third game of the
season pitching 1 1/3 innings giving up two hits and he struck out two, Adam
Warren pitched two innings giving up two strikeouts and Dellin Betances pitched
an inning giving up a hit and a walk with two strikeouts. Aroldis Chapman pitched an inning with a walk
and he saved his 10th game of the season.
Bartolo Colon lost his ninth game
of the season pitching four innings and giving up eight hits and four
runs. He walked none and struck out
three. Ryan Pressly pitched 1 1/3
innings giving up three hits and two runs with a strikeout, Craig Breslow
pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit and he walked one and Trevor
Hildenberger pitched 1 1/3 innings with a strikeout. Matt Belisle pitched two innings giving up a
hit and he struck out one.
Brett Gardner had two hits, Gary
Sanchez had two hits and two RBI and Aaron Judge had two hits, an RBI and drew
a walk. Gregorius had three hits and two
RBI, Chase Headley had a hit and an RBI and Torreyes had three hits. Gardner hit two doubles and Sanchez hit a
double. Gregorius hit a homerun and the
Yankees were 3-7 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on
base.
Brian Dozier had a hit, an RBI and
drew two walks, Zack Granite drew a walk and Joe Mauer drew a walk. Miguel Sano had two hits and an RBI, Max
Kepler had two hits and Robbie Grossman had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk. Jorge Polanco drew a walk, Jason Castro had a
hit and Kepler, Castro, Sano and Grossman each hit a double. Dozier hit a triple and Sano hit a
homerun. The Twins were 2-18 with
runners in scoring position and left 12 men on base.
In the first Grossman drew an RBI
walk to give the Twins a 1-0 lead. In
the third Sano hit a solo homerun to push the lead to 2-0. In the fourth Headley hit an RBI single to
cut the lead to 2-1. In the fourth
Dozier hit an RBI triple to extend the lead to 3-1. In the fifth Sanchez hit a two-run double to
tie the game at three. Judge hit an RBI
single and Gregorius hit a two-run homerun to push the lead to 6-3 and that
would be the final score.
The two teams will play the rubber
game of the series on Wednesday afternoon.
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