New York Yankees blow big early lead and lose in 12 innings to the Baltimore Orioles

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday afternoon.  The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score was 8-7 in 12 innings.  Jordan Montgomery started for the Yankees and he didn’t pitch very well.  The bullpen was good and the Yankees had a bunch of guys with multi-hit games. 

Montgomery pitched 4 1/3 innings giving up ten hits and four runs with two walks and four strikeouts.  Domingo German pitched 2 2/3 innings giving up three hits and three runs with a walk and five strikeouts, Dellin Betances pitched an inning giving up a hit and struck out two and Aroldis Chapman pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout.  Chasen Shreve pitched a perfect inning, David Robertson pitched a perfect inning and Adam Warren took his first loss of the season pitching an inning giving up two hits and a run with a walk and three strikeouts. 

Mike Wright Jr. pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up five hits and five runs with two of them being earned.  He walked one and struck out one.  Pedro Araujo pitched 2 1/3 innings giving up a hit and he struck out five, Miguel Castro pitched two innings giving up three hits and a run with a walk and a strikeout and Tanner Scott pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up two hits and a run with a walk and a strikeout.  Darren O’Day pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up two hits and he struck out two, Richard Bleier won his second game of the season pitching three innings and giving up three hits and a walk with a strikeout and Brad Brach pitched an inning with two walks and a strikeout and he earned his second save of the season. 

Brett Gardner had two hits, Aaron Judge had two hits and drew two walks and Neil Walker had a hit and an RBI.  Tyler Austin had two hits and drew a walk, Miguel Andujar had two hits, two RBI and drew a walk and Jace Peterson had two hits.  Austin Romine had three hits, three RBI and drew a walk and Didi Gregorius had a hit and drew a walk.  Torreyes, Gregorius and Austin each hit a double and the Yankees were 6-20 with runners in scoring position and left 14 men on base.  Judge was caught stealing and Stanton committed an error. 

Trey Mancini had a hit and drew a walk, Manny Machado had two hits and an RBI and Jonathan Schoop had a hit.  Adam Jones had three hits, Danny Valencia had a hit, two RBI and drew a walk and Pedro Alvarez drew a walk.  Tim Beckham had two hits and an RBI, Anthony Santander had three hits and three RBI and Craig Gentry had three hits and an RBI.  Caleb Joseph drew a walk, Beckham hit a double and Valencia and Santander hit a homerun.  The Orioles were 4-14 with runners in scoring position and left ten men on base.  Gentry had two stolen bases, Wright Jr. committed an error and Brach committed an error. 

In the first Walker reached on a force attempt throwing error and the Yankees took a 1-0 lead.  Andujar hit a two-run single to push the lead to 3-0.  Romine hit an RBI single and Torreyes hit an RBI double and it was 5-0 Yankees.  In the second Santander hit an RBI single to cut the lead to 5-1.  In the third Beckham hit an RBI single to make it a 5-2 game.  In the fifth Valencia hit a two-run homerun and it was 5-4.  In the fifth Romine hit an RBI single to push the lead to 6-4 Yankees.  In the sixth Machado hit an RBI single making it a 6-5 game.  In the seventh Santander hit a two-run homerun to give the Orioles a 7-6 lead.  In the bottom of the seventh Romine hit an RBI single to tie the game at seven.  In the 12^th Gentry hit an RBI single to give the Orioles a 8-7 lead and that would be the final score.  The Yankees had the bases loaded and no outs in the bottom of the 12^th with Judge and Stanton coming up and they didn’t score a run as Judge hit into a 1-2-5 double play and Stanton struck out to end the game.  The Yankees lost three out of four and will head to Boston for a three-game series beginning on Tuesday night.