New York Yankees defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks and earn split of series

The New York Yankees defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday afternoon.  The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score was 7-5.  Masahiro Tanaka started for the Yankees and he pitched better but he didn’t last long.  The Yankees bullpen pitched pretty well and Mike Tauchman led the offense with two hits and two RBI. 

Tanaka pitched 4+ innings giving up five hits and two runs with three walks and four strikeouts.  Chad Green pitched an inning giving up a hit and an unearned run and a walk, Tommy Khanle pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out two and Adam Ottavino picked up his fourth win of the season pitching a perfect inning with a couple of strikeouts.  Zack Britton pitched a perfect inning, Nestor Cortes Jr. gave up a hit and a run without recording an out and Aroldis Chapman picked up his 27^th save of the season pitching an inning and giving up a hit and a run with two walks and a strikeout.

Zack Greinke pitched five innings giving up two hits and two runs with three walks and seven strikeouts.  Yoan Lopez pitched 1 2/3 innings with two strikeouts, Andrew Chafin pitched giving up a hit and a run without recording an out and Yoshihisa Hirano pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up three hits and three runs and he took his fifth loss of the season and had his third blown save.  T.J. McFarland pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run with a strikeout. 

Aaron Judge had a hit, Edwin Encarnacion had a hit and drew a walk and Didi Gregorius had an RBI and drew a walk.  Gleyber Torres had a hit and an RBI, Gio Urshela had a hit and Cameron Maybin had a hit and an RBI.  Tauchman had two hits and two RBI, Austin Romine had a hit, two RBI and drew a walk.  Urshela, Tauchman and Torres each hit a double and Tauchman and Romine each hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 4-7 with runners in scoring position and left four men on base.  Hicks committed an error and Maybin had an outfield assist. 

Jarrod Dyson had a hit, Adam Jones drew a walk and Wilmer Flores had two hits.  Eduardo Escobar had an RBI, David Peralta had three hits, an RBI and drew a walk and Christian Walker drew three walks.  Jake Lamb had an RBI, Alex Avila had a hit and drew a walk and Tim Locastro had two hits and an RBI.  Locastro and Peralta each hit a double and Locastro hit a homerun.  The Diamondbacks were 2-12 with runners in scoring position and left 10 men on base. 

In the second Tauchman hit a two-run homerun to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead.  In the fifth Escobar lined into a force out and a run scored cutting the lead to 2-1.  Lamb hit a sac fly and another run scored on an error to give the Diamondbacks a 3-2 lead.  In the seventh Romine hit a two-run homerun to give the Yankees back the lead at 4-3.  In the eighth Gregorius hit an RBI ground out to make it a 5-3 game, Torres hit an RBI double and Maybin hit an RBI single to push the lead to 7-3.  In the ninth Locastro hit a solo homerun and Peralta hit an RBI double to cut the lead to 7-5 but that would be the final score.  The two teams split the brief two-game series and the Yankees will have the day off and then begin a four-game series with the Boston Red Sox on Friday night.