New York Yankees defeat the Houston Astros and win series

The New York Yankees defeated the Houston Astros on Wednesday night.  The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score was 5-3.  Luis Severino started for the Yankees and he pitched very well.  The bullpen did their job to close out the game and Aaron Judge had two hits and Gary Sanchez had two RBI to lead the offense. 

Severino pitched seven innings giving up four hits and two runs with a walk and 11 strikeouts.  Severino picked up his eighth win of the season.  David Robertson pitched an inning giving up a hit and striking out two and Aroldis Chapman saved his 12^th game of the season pitching an inning and giving up two hits and a run with a strikeout. 

Dallas Keuchel lost his seventh game of the season pitching five innings and giving up seven hits and four runs with three walks and seven strikeouts.  Collin McHugh pitched three innings giving up a hit and a run with a walk and three strikeouts. 

Aaron Hicks had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk, Aaron Judge had two hits and Giancarlo Stanton had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Sanchez had a hit, two RBI and drew a walk, Gleyber Torres had a hit and Didi Gregorius had a hit and an RBI.  Austin Romine had a hit and drew a walk, Torres and Hicks each hit a double and the Yankees were 2-6 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base.  Gregorius was caught stealing and Andujar committed an error. 

Alex Bregman had a hit, Jose Altuve had two hits and Yuli Gurriel had a hit.  Marwin Gonzalez drew a walk, Evan Gattis had a hit and Max Stassi had two hits and three RBI.  Stassi hit a double and a homerun and the Astros were 1-4 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base. 

In the first Stanton hit a sac fly to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.  In the fifth Stassi hit a two-run homerun to give the Astros a 2-1 lead.  In the bottom of the fifth Sanchez hit a two-run single to give the Yankees back the lead at 3-2.  In the sixth Gregorius hit an RBI single to push the lead to 4-2 and Hicks hit an RBI double to make it 5-2.  In the ninth Stassi hit an RBI double to cut the lead to 5-3 but that would be the final score.  The Yankees took two out of three in the series and finished the homestand at 4-2.  They will head to Baltimore to start a four game series on Thursday night.