New York Yankees come back to beat their cross town rivals

The New York Yankees defeated the New York Mets on Wednesday afternoon.  The game took place at First Data Field in Port St. Lucie, Florida and the final score was 11-4.  Domingo German started for the Yankees and he pitched well.  Brett Gardner, Abiatal Avelino, Austin Romine, Kyle Higashioka and Kyle Holder each had two hits. 

German pitched 2 2/3 innings giving up a hit and two unearned runs.  He walked two and struck out five.  Ben Heller pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up two hits and a run, Dillon Tate pitched two innings giving up two hits and an unearned run and Brady Lail got the win pitching two perfect innings with a couple of strikeouts.  Cale Coshow pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out two. 

Gardner had two hits and drew a walk, Tyler Wade had a hit and Billy McKinney had a hit, four RBI and drew two walks.  Jorge Saez had a hit, Tyler Austin had a hit and Avelino had two hits.  Romine had two hits, Higashioka had two hits and Ronald Torreyes had an RBI.  Holder had two hits and an RBI, Shane Robinson had a hit and Trey Amburgey had a hit, four RBI and drew a walk.  Estevan Florial had a hit, Jeff Hendrix had an RBI and Higashioka hit a double.  McKinney and Amburgey each hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 4-10 with runners in scoring position and left ten men on base.  Torreyes had a stolen base and Florial and Tate each committed an error. 

In the third Bruce reached on a fielding error and two runs scored giving the Mets a 2-0 lead.  In the fourth Torreyes hit an RBI ground out cutting the lead to 2-1.  In the bottom of the fourth Travis d’Arnaud hit a solo homerun to push the Mets lead to 3-1.  In the sixth Juan Lagares hit an RBI ground out to extend the Mets lead to 4-1.  In the eighth Amburgey drew an RBI walk to cut the lead to 4-2, Hendrix reached on a fielding error and the lead was 4-3 and McKinney hit a grand slam giving the Yankees a 7-4 lead.  In the ninth Holder hit an RBI single and Amburgey hit a three-run homerun to push the Yankees lead to 11-4 and that would be the final score.