The New York Yankees split a
doubleheader with the Houston Astros on Sunday.
It was also Derek Jeter night so it was a long, emotional day for the
team. The team also placed their closer
Aroldis Chapman on the ten-day DL but say he should miss about a month. In the first game of the double dip the
Yankees defeated the Astros 11-6 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. Luis Severino started for the Yankees and he
didn’t pitch too well or deep into the game.
The Yankees bullpen pitched well.
Brett Gardner lead the offense with three hits.
Severino pitched 2 1/3 innings
giving up six hits and three runs. He
walked three and struck out two. Chad
Green pitched 3 2/3 innings giving up a hit and a walk with three strikeouts,
Adam Warren won his first game of the season pitching two innings and giving up
two hits and three runs with two of them being earned. He walked one and struck out one and Jonathan
Holder pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout.
Mike Fiers started game one for the
Astros and pitched 5 2/3 innings giving up four hits and four runs with two
walks and seven strikeouts. Michael
Feliz pitched to one batter and struck him out, Will Harris lost his first game
of the season pitching 1/3 of an inning and giving up three hits and three runs
and Chris Devenski pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up three hits and three runs
with a walk and a strikeout. Tony Sipp
pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and a run with two strikeouts.
Gardner had three hits and an RBI,
Jacoby Ellsbury had a hit and Matt Holliday had a hit, two RBI and drew a
walk. Starlin Castro had two hits and
three RBI, Aaron Judge had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Didi Gregorius had
a hit. Chase Headley had a hit and three
RBI, Chris Carter had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Gardner, Gregorius,
Ellsbury, Castro and Carter each hit a double and Headley hit a triple. Castro, Judge and Gardner each hit a homerun
and the Yankees were 5-12 with runners in scoring position and left five men on
base. Castro committed an error.
George Springer had a hit, Josh
Reddick had two hits and drew a walk and Jose Altuve drew a walk. Carlos Correa had a hit, an RBI and drew a
walk, Evan Gattis had two hits and two RBI and Marwin Gonzalez had a hit, two
RBI and drew a walk. Yuli Gurriel had
two hits and an RBI, Nori Aoki drew a walk and the Astros were 5-13 with
runners in scoring position and left eight men on base. Gurriel committed two errors and Correa
committed an error.
In the first Holliday hit an RBI
ground out to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.
In the third Correa hit an RBI single to tie the game at one and Gattis
hit an RBI single to give the Astros a 2-1 lead. Gonzalez hit a RBI single to push the Astros
lead to 3-1. In the fourth Castro and
Judge went back-to-back giving the Yankees a 4-3 lead. In the seventh Gattis hit an RBI single to
tie the game at four and Gonzalez reached on a force attempt error and Gurriel
hit a sac fly giving the Astros the lead at 6-4. In the bottom of the seventh Holliday hit an
RBI single, Castro hit an RBI double and Headley hit a three-run triple giving
the Yankees a 9-6 lead. Carter hit an
RBI double to extend the lead to 10-6 and in the bottom of the eighth Gardner
hit a solo homerun to make it 11-6 and that would be the final score.
In the second game the Astros
jumped out to an early 6-0 lead and never looked back as they won the game
10-7. Masahiro Tanaka started for the
Yankees and pitched terrible. The
Yankees bullpen was great and their offense was led by Brett Gardner once again
who had three hits.
Tanaka pitched 1 2/3 innings giving
up seven hits and eight runs with a walk and three strikeouts. Tanaka lost his second game of the
season. Giovanny Gallegos made his major-league
debut and pitched three innings giving up a hit and an unearned run with a walk
and three strikeouts, Chasen Shreve pitched 2 1/3 perfect innings with a
strikeout and Tommy Layne pitched 1 2/3 perfect inning with two
strikeouts. Dellin Betances came into
the game to get some work in and gave up two hits and an unearned run in 1/3 of
an inning.
Charlie Morton started for the
Astros and pitched 5 2/3 innings giving up four hits and four runs with four
walks and ten strikeouts. He earned his
fifth win of the season. Michael Feliz
pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and he struck out four, Brad Peacock
pitched an inning giving up a hit and he walked one and Dayan Diaz pitched 2/3
of an inning giving up three hits and three runs with two of them being
earned. He struck out two batters and
Ken Giles pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit and he walked one.
Gardner had three hits and an RBI,
Gary Sanchez had two hits and drew a walk and Matt Holliday had a hit and three
RBI. Starlin Castro had a hit and an
RBI, Aaron Judge had a hit and Didi Gregorius drew a walk. Aaron Hicks had a hit and drew a walk, Chris
Carter drew a walk and Ronald Torreyes had a hit. Gardner and Sanchez each hit a double and
Holliday hit a homerun and the Yankees were 5-11 with runners in scoring
position and left nine men on base.
Sanchez committed an error and had a passed ball.
George Springer had two hits, two
RBI and drew a walk, Josh Reddick had a hit and an RBI and Jose Altuve had a
hit. Carlos Correa had two hits, an RBI
and drew a walk, Carlos Beltran had two hits and an RBI and Yuli Gurriel had a
hit. Alex Bregman had a hit and four
RBI, Beltran hit a double and Springer hit two homeruns. Reddick and Bregman each hit a homerun and
the Astros were 1-6 with runners in scoring position and left four men on
base. Marisnick committed an error.
Springer hit a solo homerun in the
fifth Gardner hit an RBI single to cut the lead to 9-1. Holliday hit a three-run homerun making it
9-4. In the ninth a passed ball made it
10-4 Astros and in the bottom half a wild pitch made it a 10-5 game. Castro hit an RBI single cutting the lead to
10-6 and Judge hit an RBI single to make it 10-7. The Yankees did have the tying run to the
plate but that would be the final score.
The Yankees lost three of four in
the series to the Astros and will have a day off on Monday. They will then begin a three game series in
Kansas City on Tuesday night against the Royals.