New York Yankees lose to the Minnesota Twins as their series evens

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Minnesota Twins on Saturday afternoon.  The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score was 7-3.  J.A. Happ started for the Yankees and he wasn’t great.  DJ LeMahieu led the offense with two hits. 

Happ lost his third game of the season pitching 5 2/3 innings and giving up seven hits and four runs.  He walked one and struck out three.  Joe Harvey pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up two hits and an unearned run, Stephen Tarpley pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run with a walk and a strikeout and Jake Barrett pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a hit and a run with a strikeout. 

Jake Odorizzi won his fourth game of the season pitching six innings and giving up two hits and no runs with four walks and eight strikeouts.  Trevor Hildenberger pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up three hits and two runs, Blake Parker pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up two hits and a run and Taylor Rogers pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout. 

LeMahieu had two hits and an RBI, Gary Sanchez had a hit, an RBI and drew two walks and Miguel Andujar had a hit and drew a walk.  Gleyber Torres had a hit, Brett Gardner had a hit and drew a walk and Cameron Maybin had a hit.  Gardner hit a double and Sanchez hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 2-6 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base.  LeMahieu was picked off and Andujar committed two errors. 

Mitch Garver had three hits and two RBI, Nelson Cruz had a hit and an RBI and Eddie Rosario had a hit and an RBI.  Marwin Gonzalez had a hit, C.J. Cron had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Max Kepler had a hit and drew a walk.  Jonathan Schoop had two hits and an RBI, Byron Buxton had two hits.  Buxton hit a double and Cruz, Cron and Garver each hit a homerun.  The Twins were 2-9 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base.  Odorizzi had a pickoff. 

In the third Garver hit a two-run homerun to give the Twins a 2-0 lead.  In the fifth Polanco hit into a double play and a run scored to push the Twins lead to 3-0.  Cron hit a solo homerun in the sixth and the lead extended to 4-0.  In the seventh Rosario hit into a force out and the lead was up to 5-0.  In the bottom of the seventh the Yankees finally got on the board with a wild pitch and a LeMahieu RBI single cutting the lead to 5-2.  In the eighth Schoop hit an RBI single making it a 6-2 game.  In the bottom of the eighth Sanchez hit a solo homerun to cut the lead to 6-3 but the Twins added a run in the ninth on a Cruz solo homerun and the final score would be 7-3. 

The two teams will play the rubber game of the series on Sunday afternoon.