The New York
Yankees defeated the Kansas City Royals on Sunday afternoon. The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the
Bronx, New York and the final score was 7-6.
James Paxton started for the Yankees and he pitched great. Chad Green and Adam Ottavino had trouble out
of the bullpen and Brett Gardner and Austin Romine led the team with three hits
each.
Paxton
pitched six plus innings giving up three hits and no runs. He walked one and struck out 12. Tommy Khanle pitched an inning with two
strikeouts, Green pitched giving up two hits and three runs with a walk and
didn’t record an out and Ottavino pitched an inning giving up three hits and
three runs with a walk and two strikeouts.
Aroldis Chapman pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out two
and Zack Britton pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out two and he
won his first game of the season.
Jorge Lopez
pitched seven innings giving up eight hits and five runs with four of them
being earned. He walked one and struck
out six. Wily Peralta pitched an inning
giving up two hits and a run with a strikeout, Scott Barlow pitched an inning
giving up a hit and he struck out two and Jake Diiekman pitched giving up a run
and two walks and took his first loss of the season. Ian Kennedy pitched 1/3 of an inning giving
up a hit.
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LeMahieu had a hit, Luke Voit had a hit and Gardner had three hits. Clint Frazier had a hit and three RBI and
Mike Tauchman had two hits and drew a walk.
Gio Urshela drew a walk, Mike Ford got his first major league hit and
Romine had three hits and three RBI.
Tyler Wade drew a walk and Ford, LeMahieu and Tauchman each hit a
double. Frazier hit a homerun and the
Yankees were 4-8 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on
base. Britton had a pickoff.
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Merrifield had two hits, Adalberto Mondesi had two hits and two RBI and Alex
Gordon had two hits and three RBI.
Hunter Dozier had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk, Chris Owings drew a
walk and Martin Maldonado had a hit.
Billy Hamilton had a hit and drew a walk, Gordon and Mondesi each hit a
double. Gordon and Dozier each hit a
homerun and the Royals were 3-12 with runners in scoring position and left six
men on base. Mondesi had a stolen base
and Hamilton had two stolen bases and Gore was caught stealing. Maldonado had a passed ball.
In the
first a passed ball gave the Yankees a 1-0 lead. In the second Romine hit an RBI single to
push the lead to 2-0. In the fifth
Frazier hit a three-run homerun to extend the Yankees lead to 5-0. In the eighth Mondesi hit a two-run double to
cut the lead to 5-2, Gordon hit a three-run homerun to tie the game at five and
one batter later Dozier hit a solo homerun giving the Royals a 6-5 lead. In the bottom of the eighth Romine hit an RBI
single to tie the game at six. In the
tenth Romine hit an RBI walk-off single to give the Yankees the 7-6 victory.
The
Yankees took three out of four in the series and will now embark on a three team,
nine game road trip to the west coast.
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