The New York Yankees were defeated
by the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night.
The game took place at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Florida and
the final score was 8-3. Brady Lail
started for the Yankees and he didn’t pitch that well, Ben Heller also didn’t
pitch very well out of the bullpen.
Tyler Wade had two hits to lead the offense.
Lail pitched 1 2/3 innings giving
up two hits and two runs with two walks and a strikeout. Lail took the loss in the game. Heller pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up three
hits and three runs with a couple of strikeouts, Cody Carroll pitched 1 2/3
innings giving up four hits and a run with a couple of strikeouts and Giovanny
Gallegos pitched an inning giving up two hits and he struck out two. J.P. Feyereisen pitched an inning giving up a
hit and he struck out two, Matt Frawley pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up two
hits and two runs with a walk and a strikeout and James Reeves pitched to two
batters and struck them both out.
Wade had two hits, Jace Peterson
had a hit and Neil Walker had a hit and an RBI.
Jorge Saez had a hit and two RBI, Chris Gittens had a hit and Trey
Amburgey drew a walk. Gleyber Torres had
a hit, Eric Kratz had a hit and Torres and Wade each hit a double. Wade also hit a triple and Saez hit a
homerun. The Yankees were 1-7 with
runners in scoring position and left six men on base. Kratz had a passed ball.
In the first Walker hit an RBI
single to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.
In the bottom of the first Miguel Cabrera hit an RBI single and Nicholas
Castellanos hit a sac fly to give the Tigers a 2-1 lead. In the fourth Victor Reyes hit an RBI single
to extend the lead to 3-1. Dixon Machado
hit a two-run single making it 5-1. In the
fifth Martinez hit a solo homerun and the Tigers lead was pushed to 6-1. In the eighth Saez hit a two-run homerun to
cut the lead to 6-3. In the bottom of
the eighth Ronny Rodriguez hit an RBI triple and Chad Huffman hit an RBI single
and it was 8-3 Tigers and that would be the final score.