New York Yankees suffer another defeat in Cleveland

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Cleveland Indians on Saturday afternoon.  The game took place at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio and the final score was 8-4.  CC Sabathia started for the Yankees and he was ok.  The Yankees bullpen wasn’t good and DJ LeMahieu and Didi Gregorius led the offense with two hits each. 

Sabathia pitched five innings giving up seven hits and four runs with a walk and five strikeouts.  Sabathia lost his third game of the season.  Jonathan Holder pitched an inning giving up three hits and three runs with two strikeouts and Luis Cessa pitched two innings giving up two hits and a run with a walk and a strikeout. 

Adam Plutko pitched six innings giving up three hits and two runs with four strikeouts.  He won his second game of the season.  Oliver Perez pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up two hits and two runs, Adam Cimber pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a walk and Nick Wittgren pitched an inning with a walk.  Brad Hand pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out one. 

LeMahieu had two hits, Aaron Hicks drew a walk and Gregorius had two hits and two RBI.  Gleyber Torres had a hit and an RBI, Clint Frazier had a hit and drew a walk and Gio Urhsela had an RBI.  Frazier hit a double, Torres hit a double and Gregorius hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 1-3 with runners in scoring position and left four men on base. 

Francisco Lindor had two hits, Oscar Mercado had two hits and two RBI and Carlos Santana had a hit.  Jordan Luplow had two hits and drew a walk, Jose Ramirez had an RBI and drew a walk and Roberto Perez had two hits and three RBI.  Jason Kipnis had two hits, Kevin Plawecki had a hit and two RBI and Mercado, Luplow, Lindor and Perez each hit a double.  Mercado, Plawecki and Perez each hit a homerun.  The Indians were 2-6 with runners in scoring position and left four men on base.  Perez committed an error. 

In the first Gregorius hit a two-run homerun to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead.  In the fourth Ramirez hit a sac fly and Luplow hit a solo homerun to tie the game at two.  In the fifth Mercado hit a two-run homerun to give the Indians a 4-2 lead.  In the sixth Perez hit a two-run homerun pushing the Indians lead to 6-2.  Plawecki hit a solo homerun and the lead was 7-2.  In the seventh Torres hit an RBI double and Urshela hit a sac fly to cut the lead to 7-4.  In the eighth Plawecki hit a sac fly to make it 8-4 and that would be the final score. 

The Yankees have lost four out of their last five and will try and avoid a three-game sweep on Sunday afternoon.