New York Yankees hold off the Seattle Mariners

The New York Yankees defeated the Seattle Mariners on Monday night.  The game took place at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Washington and the final score was 5-4.  J.A. Happ started for the Yankees and he pitched well, the bullpen did their job and DJ LeMahieu and Mike Ford each had two hits to lead the offense. 

Happ pitched five innings giving up two hits and three runs with three walks and seven strikeouts.  Happ earned his 11^th win of the season.  Cory Gearrin pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a walk with a strikeout, Nestor Cortes Jr. pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a hit and a run with two strikeouts and Tommy Khanle pitched an inning with two strikeouts.  Aroldis Chapman pitched an inning with two strikeouts and earned his 36^th save of the season. 

Matt Wisler pitched an inning with two strikeouts.  Tommy Milone pitched five innings giving up eight hits and five runs with two walks and a strikeout and lost his eighth game of the season.  Erik Swanson pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out one and Wade LeBlanc pitched two innings striking out two batters. 

LeMahieu had two hits, Aaron Judge had a hit and Brett Gardner had a hit and drew a walk.  Gleyber Torres had a hit and an RBI, Mike Tauchman drew a walk and Gio Urshela had a hit.  Austin Romine had a hit and an RBI, Ford had two hits and three RBI and LeMahieu hit a double.  Gardner hit a triple and Torres hit a homerun.  Ford hit two homeruns and the Yankees were 2-4 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base.  Judge had a stolen base. 

Austin Nola had a hit, Kyle Seager drew two walks and Tom Murphy had a hit and drew a walk.  Omar Narvaez drew a walk, Dylan Moore had a hit and three RBI and Mallex Smith had a hit and an RBI.  Moore and Smith each hit a homerun and the Mariners were 1-8 with runners in scoring position and left four men on base. 

In the second Torres hit a solo homerun and Romine hit an RBI single to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead.  Ford hit a two-run homerun and it was 4-0 Yankees.  In the second Moore hit a three-run homerun cutting the lead to 4-3.  In the fourth Ford hit a solo homerun to push the lead to 5-3.  In the seventh Smith hit a solo homerun cutting the lead to 5-4 and that would be the final score. 

The two teams will play game two of three on Tuesday night.