New York Yankees pitching gets lit up in a offensive showdown

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night.  The game took place at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas and the final score was 12-10.  CC Sabathia started and he pitched horrible.  The Yankees bullpen didn’t do that much better.  The offense was great hitting four more homeruns. 

Sabathia pitched 4 1/3 innings giving up six hits and seven runs.  He walked three and struck out one.  Jonathan Holder pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and he struck out one, Chasen Shreve pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up two hits and two runs with a strikeout and David Robertson lost his second game of the season pitching 2/3 of an inning and giving up a hit and two runs with two walks and two strikeouts.  Dellin Betances pitched two innings giving up a hit and a run with four strikeouts. 

Doug Fister pitched 4 1/3 innings giving up 11 hits and eight runs with six of them being earned.  He walked one and struck out two.  Tony Barnette pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up two hits and two runs with a strikeout, Alex Claudio pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a hit and he struck out three and earned his second win of the season and Jose Leclerc pitched to one batter and retired him.  Chris Martin pitched a perfect inning and Keone Kela pitched a perfect inning with three strikeouts and earned his 10^th save of the season. 

Brett Gardner had two hits, Aaron Judge had two hits and two RBI and Didi Gregorius had a hit and two RBI.  Giancarlo Stanton had a hit, Aaron Hicks had two hits and Neil Walker had two hits and an RBI.  Miguel Andujar had two hits, Austin Romine had a hit, two RBI and drew a walk and Gleyber Torres had a hit and three RBI.  Gardner hit two doubles, Andujar hit a double and Gregorius, Walker, Torres and Judge each hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 4-11 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base.  Betances committed an error. 

Delino DeShields had a hit, Shin-Soo Choo had two hits and drew two walks and Isiah Kiner-Falefa had two hits, three RBI and drew a walk.  Nomar Mazara had two hits and three RBI, Jurickson Profar had two hits, three RBI and drew a walk and Ryan Rua drew a walk.  Ronald Guzman had two hits and three RBI, Profar hit a double and Kiner-Falefa hit a triple.  Mazara and Guzman hit a homerun and the Rangers were 4-12 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base.  Choo, DeShields and Kiner-Falefa each had a stolen base.  Profar and Odor each committed an error. 

In the first Gregorius hit a two-run homerun and Romine drew an RBI walk giving the Yankees a 3-0 lead.  In the third Walker hit a solo homerun to make it 4-0.  In the bottom of the fourth Mazara hit a two-run homerun to cut the lead in half.  Guzman hit a three-run homerun to give Texas a 5-4 lead.  In the fifth Romine hit an RBI single to tie the game at five and Torres hit a three-run homerun to give the Yankees back the lead at 8-5.  Judge hit a two-run homerun and it was 10-5 Yankees.  In the bottom of the fifth Kiner-Falefa hit an RBI triple to cut the lead to 10-6 and Mazera hit an RBI single to make it a 10-7 game.  In the sixth Kiner-Falefa drew an RBI walk and Profar hit a three-run double to give the Rangers a 11-10 lead.  In the eighth Kiner-Falefa hit an RBI single and it was 12-10 Rangers which would be the final score. 

The Yankees lost their first series in nine after winning their last eight.  They lost two out of three and after an off day on Thursday they will be home to host the Angels for three and then the Astros for three.