New York Yankees are defeated by the Kansas City Royals

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Kansas City Royals on Thursday night.  The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score was 6-1.  Domingo German started for the Yankees and he had a quality start.  The Yankees bullpen did not pitch well and the offense only produced four hits. 

German pitched six innings giving up six hits and three runs with no walks and nine strikeouts.  German lost his first game of the season.  Jonathan Holder pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up three hits and two runs with a strikeout, Zack Britton pitched 2/3 of an inning with a strikeout and Chad Green pitched an inning giving up two hits and he struck out two.  Joe Harvey pitched an inning giving up a run and a walk with a strikeout. 

Homer Bailey won his second game of the season pitching six innings and giving up three hits and a run with a walk and six strikeouts.  Richard Lovelady pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a walk and he struck out one and Ian Kennedy pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and a walk with three strikeouts. 

Aaron Judge had a hit, Luke Voit had a hit and drew a walk and Gleyber Torres had an RBI.  Clint Frazier had two hits, Mike Ford drew a walk and Tyler Wade drew a walk.  The Yankees were 0-4 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base. 

Whit Merrifield had a hit and an RBI, Adalberto Mondesi had two hits and two RBI and Alex Gordon had a hit and an RBI.  Ryan O’Hearn had two hits and an RBI, Jorge Soler had two hits and an RBI and Martin Maldonado had a hit.  Billy Hamilton had two hits and drew a walk.  Gordon, Merrifield and Mondesi each hit a double.  Soler and O’Hearn each hit a homerun and the Royals were 2-8 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base.  Hamilton had a stolen base and Soler committed an error. 

In the first Gordon hit an RBI double to give the Royals a 1-0 lead.  In the bottom of the first Torres hit a sac fly to tie the game at one.  In the second Soler hit a solo homerun to give the Royals a 2-1 lead and in the fourth O’Hearn hit a solo homerun pushing the lead to 3-1.  In the seventh Merrifield hit an RBI double and Mondesi hit a sac fly to extend the lead to 5-1.  In the ninth Mondesi hit a sac fly to make it 6-1 and that would be the final score. 

The two teams will play game two of four on Friday night.