New York Yankees are swept away in Houston

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Houston Astros on Wednesday night.  The game took place at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas and the final score was 8-6.  James Paxton started for the Yankees and he didn’t pitch very well.  Tommy Khanle wasn’t good out of the bullpen and DJ LeMahieu led the offense with three hits. 

Paxton lost his second game of the season pitching four innings giving up eight hits and five runs.  He walked three and struck out five.  Khanle pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up four hits and two runs, Joe Harvey pitched two innings giving up a hit and a walk with three strikeouts in his major league debut.  Stephen Tarpley pitched to one batter and got him out and Zack Britton pitched an inning giving up three hits and a run with a walk and a strikeout. 

Colin McHugh pitched six innings giving up four hits and two runs with a walk and nine strikeouts.  McHugh won his second game of the season.  Chris Devenski pitched an inning giving up two hits and he struck out one, Josh James pitched giving up two hits and four runs with two walks and Hector Rendon pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit.  Ryan Pressly pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and he struck out three. 

Brett Gardner had a hit and an RBI, Aaron Judge had a hit and drew a walk and Luke Voit had a hit and two RBI.  Gleyber Torres had two hits, Greg Bird had a hit and drew two walks and LeMahieu had three hits and two RBI.  Clint Frazier had an RBI, Tyler Wade had a hit, LeMahieu and Torres each hit a double and Voit and Gardner each hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 2-8 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.  Torres committed an error. 

George Springer had a hit and an RBI, Jose Altuve had two hits, two RBI and drew a walk and Michael Brantley had two hits and drew a walk.  Carlos Correa had three hits, three RBI and drew a walk, Yuri Gurriel had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Tyler White had a hit.  Aledmys Diaz had two hits, Max Stassi had a hit and Jake Marisnick had three hits, an RBI and drew a walk.  Correa and Marisnick each hit a double.  Gurriel hit a triple and Correa hit a homerun.  Altuve hit two homeruns and the Astros were 3-10 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base.  Springer had a stolen base. 

In the first Gardner hit a solo homerun to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.  In the bottom of the first Gurriel hit a two-run triple to give the Astros a 2-1 lead.  In the third Correa hit an RBI double and it was 3-1 Astros.  In the fourth LeMahieu hit a sac fly to cut the lead to 3-2.  In the bottom of the fifth Altuve hit a solo homerun pushing their lead to 4-2.  Correa hit a two-run homerun and it was 6-2.  Marisnick hit an RBI single to extend the lead to 7-2.  In the eighth Voit hit a two-run homerun cutting the lead to 7-4.  LeMahieu hit an RBI double and Frazier hit a sac fly cutting the lead to 7-6.  In the eighth Springer hit an RBI single to make it 8-6 and that would be the final score. 

The Yankees were swept in the three-game series and will have a day off on Thursday before beginning a three-game series with the Chicago White Sox at home on Friday night.