Monday, March 19, 2018

New York Yankees get tripped up by the Detroit Tigers


The New York Yankees were defeated by the Detroit Tigers on Saturday afternoon.  The game took place at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Florida and the final score was 9-3.  Masahiro Tanaka started for the Yankees and he didn’t pitch very well.  The offense did have ten  but only Jeff Hendrix had more then a hit. 

Tanaka pitched 2 2/3 innings giving up four hits and four runs.  He walked one and struck out six and took the loss.  Cody Carroll pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and he walked two, Domingo German pitched two innings giving up four hits and three runs with two walks and two strikeouts and J.P. Feyereisen pitched two innings giving up a hit and two runs with a walk and four strikeouts. 

Tyler Wade had a hit and drew a walk, Diego Castillo had a hit and Brandon Drury had a hit and drew two walks.  Greg Bird had a hit, Hendrix had two hits and Miguel Andujar had a hit and an RBI.  Eric Kratz had a hit, Francisco Diaz had a hit and Ronald Torreyes drew a walk.  Shane Robinson had a hit, Bird hit a double and the Yankees were 2-14 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base.  Wade had  a stolen base and Carroll  and Wade each committed an error. 

In the first Drury scored on a balk and Andujar hit an RBI single to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead.  In the bottom of the first Miguel Cabrera hit a solo homerun to cut the lead to 2-1.  In the bottom of the third Leonys Martin hit a two-run homerun to give the Tigers a 3-2 lead.  Victor Martinez hit an RBI single and it was 4-2 Tigers.  In the fourth Estevan Florial reached on an error and a run scored to make it a 4-3 game.  In the bottom of the fifth Nicholas Castellanos hit an RBI double and Jacoby Jones reached on a force attempt fielding error to make it 6-3.  In the sixth Gabriel Quintanaa hit a sac fly to push the lead to 7-3 and in the seventh Chad Sedio hit a two-run homerun to extend the lead to 9-3 and that would be the final score. 

No comments:

Post a Comment

 

Resistance Bands is a Free Blogger Template