The New York Yankees defeated the
New York Mets on Friday night. The game
took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York and the final score was
4-1. Masahiro Tanaka started for the
Yankees and pitched very well but had to leave after five innings with sore
hamstrings. Jacob deGrom started for the
Mets and he also pitched well. Brett
Gardner had two hits and two RBI to lead the Yankees offense and the Mets offense
only managed four hits.
Tanaka pitched five innings giving
up a hit and a run with a walk and eight strikeouts. Jonathan Holder pitched a perfect inning,
Chad Green won his fourth game of the season pitching an inning and giving up
two hits and he struck out two and Dellin Betances pitched a perfect inning with
a strikeout. Aroldis Chapman saved his
16th game of the season pitching an inning and giving up a hit.
deGrom pitched eight innings giving
up four hits and three runs with two of them being earned and he walked two and
struck out eight. deGrom lost his first
game of the season. Paul Sewald pitched
an inning giving up a hit and a run.
Gardner had two hits, two RBI and
drew a walk, Aaron Judge had an RBI and drew a walk and Giancarlo Stanton had a
hit and an RBI. Gleyber Torres had two
hits, Gardner and Stanton each hit a homerun and the Yankees were 0-1 with
runners in scoring position and left two men on base.
Brandon Nimmo had a hit and an RBI,
Asdrubal Cabrera had a hit and Todd Frazier had a hit. Jay Bruce had a hit and drew a walk, Nimmo
hit a homerun and the Mets were 0-4 with runners in scoring position and left
four men on base. Adrian Gonzalez
committed an error.
In the first Nimmo hit a solo
homerun to give the Mets a 1-0 lead. In
the sixth Judge hit a sac fly to tie the game at one. In the eighth Gardner hit a two-run homerun
to give the Yankees a 3-1 lead. Stanton
hit a solo homerun in the ninth to push the lead to 4-1 and that would be the
final score.
The two teams will play game two of
three on Saturday night.
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