New York Yankees pound the Baltimore Orioles

The New York Yankees defeated the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday night.  The game took place at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland and the final score was 8-5.  Masahiro Tanaka started for the Yankees and he pitched ok, the bullpen pitched well.  Aaron Hicks led the offense with three hits and Brett Gardner, Giancarlo Stanton, Didi Gregorius and Miguel Andujar each had two hits. 

Tanaka pitched 5 1/3 innings giving up eight hits and four runs with a walk and seven strikeouts.  He earned his seventh win of the season.  Jonathan Holder pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and he struck out one, Chad Green pitched an inning with a walk and Dellin Betances pitched a perfect inning with two strikeouts.  David Robertson pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run with a couple of strikeouts. 

Kevin Gausman lost his fifth game of the season pitching 5 1/3 innings giving up nine hits and six runs with five of them being earned.  He walked none and struck out nine.  Miguel Castro pitched 1 2/3 innings with a walk and a strikeout, Mychal Givens pitched an inning giving up three hits and two runs with a couple of strikeouts and Pedro Araujo pitched an inning giving up a hit. 

Gardner had two hits, Aaron Judge had a hit and Greg Bird had a hit.  Stanton had two hits, two RBI and drew a walk, Gregorius had two hits and an RBI and Hicks had three hits and two RBI.  Andujar had two hits and three RBI, Gardner hit two doubles and Judge, Andujar and Bird each hit a double.  Andujar and Stanton each hit a homerun and the Yankees were 4-18 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.  Hicks, Torres and Gregorius each had a stolen base. 

Joey Rickard had a hit and an RBI, Adam Jones had three hits and two RBI and Manny Machado had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Jonathan Schoop had two hits, Trey Mancini drew a walk and Chris Davis had a hit.  Danny Valencia had two hits and an RBI and Chance Sisco had a hit.  Schoop hit a double and Valencia hit two doubles.  Jones, Rickard and Machado each hit a homerun.  The Orioles were 2-9 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.  Schoop committed an error and Jones committed two errors. 

In the first Jones hit a solo homerun to give the Orioles a 1-0 lead.  In the second Andujar hit a two-run homerun to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead.  In the third Stanton hit a two-run homerun to push the Yankees lead to 4-1.  In the bottom of the third Rickard hit a solo homerun to cut the lead to 4-2.  In the sixth Gregorius hit an RBI single to make it a 5-2 game.  Hicks hit an RBI single to extend the lead to 6-2.  In the sixth Machado hit a solo homerun to cut the lead to 6-3.  Valencia hit an RBI double and it was 6-4.  In the eighth Hicks hit an RBI single to extend to 7-4 and Andujar hit an RBI double to push the lead to 8-4.  In the ninth Jones hit an RBI single to cut the lead to 8-5 but that would be the final score. 

The two teams will play game three of three on Sunday afternoon.