New York Yankees lose in 12 innings to the Toronto Blue Jays

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night.  The game took place at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada and the final score was 6-5 in 12 innings.  Masahiro Tanaka started and didn’t pitch that great.  DJ LeMahieu and Austin Romine each had two hits to lead the offense. 

Tanaka pitched five innings giving up eight hits and four runs with six strikeouts.  Tommy Khanle pitched an inning giving up a hit, Adam Ottavino pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with two walks and a strikeout and Zack Britton pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout.  Luis Cessa pitched two innings giving up two hits and he struck out one and Tyler Lyons lost his second game of the season pitching an inning giving up a hit and a run with a strikeout. 

Anthony Kay pitched 4 1/3 innings giving up seven hits and five runs with a walk and two strikeouts.  Jason Adam pitched to one batter and gave up a hit, Buddy Boshers pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a walk and Sam Gaviglio pitched two innings giving up a hit and a walk with two strikeouts.  Derek Law pitched an inning with a strikeout, Ken Giles pitched an inning with a walk and Tim Mayza gave up a walk.  Ryan Tepera pitched a perfect inning and Wilmer Font pitched two perfect innings with three strikeouts and he won his fourth game of the season. 

LeMahieu had two hits, Gleyber Torres had a hit and drew a walk and Luke Voit had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Gio Urshela had a hit and two RBI, Didi Gregorius drew three walks and Brett Gardner had a hit.  Clint Frazier had a hit and an RBI, Romine had two hits and an RBI and Gardner and Frazier each hit a double.  The Yankees were 3-9 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base.  Maybin was caught stealing and LeMahieu and Torres committed an error. 

Bo Bichette had three hits and an RBI and drew a walk, Cavan Biggio had two hits and an RBI and Rowdy Tellez had a hit.  Justin Smoak drew a walk, Randal Grichuk had a hit and an RBI and Reese McGuire had a hit and an RBI.  Teoscar Hernandez had two hits, Billy McKinney had a hit and Richard Urena had two hits. McGuire and Bichette each hit a double and Grichuk and Bichette each hit a homerun.  The Blue Jays were 3-11 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.  Grichuk committed an error. 

In the second Grichuk hit a solo homerun giving the Blue Jays a 1-0 lead.  In the fourth McGuire hit an RBI double and Hernandez hit an RBI single to push the lead to 3-0.  In the fifth Frazier hit an RBI double, Romine hit an RBI single and Voit reached on a fielder’s choice and a run scored tying the game at three.  Urshela hit a two-run single to give the Yankees a 5-3 lead.  Biggio hit an RBI single in the bottom of the fifth to cut the lead to 5-4 and in the seventh a balk tied the game at five.  In the 12^th Bichette hit a solo homerun to walk off the Jays with a 6-5 victory. 

The two teams will play game two of three on Saturday afte