New York Yankees sweep the doubleheader over the Detroit Tigers with game 2 victory

The New York Yankees defeated the Detroit Tigers in Game 2 of a doubleheader on Thursday evening.  The game took place at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan and the final score was 6-4.  CC Sabathia started and pitched well and Domingo German pitched great following him.  DJ LeMahieu had three hits to lead the offense. 

Sabathia pitched 3 1/3 innings giving up three hits and two runs with a walk and five strikeouts.  German won his 18^th game of the season pitching four innings giving up two hits and he struck out five, Tommy Khanle pitched an inning giving up a hit and two runs with a walk and a strikeout and Aroldis Chapman pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and he struck out one and saved his 37^th game of the season. 

Spencer Turnbull pitched five innings giving up seven hits and four runs with a walk and eight strikeouts and he lost his 15^th game of the season.  Nick Ramirez pitched two innings giving up a hit and two walks with three strikeouts, Buck Farmer pitched a perfect inning with two strikeouts and Gregory Soto pitched giving up two hits and two runs with a walk and he didn’t record an out.  John Schreiber pitched an inning giving up a hit. 

LeMahieu had three hits and an RBI, Aaron Judge had a hit, two RBI and drew a walk and Didi Gregorius had a hit and an RBI.  Gleyber Torres had a hit, Gary Sanchez drew a walk and Luke Voit had a hit and drew a walk.  Mike Ford had a hit, Gio Urshela had a hit and two RBI and Tyler Wade had two hits and drew a walk.  LeMahieu and Wade each hit a double, Judge and Urshela each hit a homerun and the Yankees were 1-8 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base.  Sanchez was caught stealing and Ford committed an error. 

Harold Castro had two hits, Jeimer Candelario drew a walk and Jordy Mercer had a hit.  Brandon Dixon had two hits, two RBI and drew a walk, Grayson Greiner had a hit and an RBI and John Hicks had a hit and an RBI.  Dixon hit a double and Greiner hit a triple.  The Tigers were 3-8 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base.  Dixon committed an error. 

In the first Judge hit a two-run homerun and the Yankees had a 2-0 lead.  In the second LeMahieu hit an RBI double to push the lead to 3-0.  In the fourth Dixon hit a two-run double to cut the lead to 3-2.  In the fifth Gregorius hit an RBI single to extend the lead to 4-2.  In the ninth Urshela hit a two-run homerun to make it 6-2.  In the bottom of the ninth Greiner hit an RBI triple and Hicks hit an RBI single to cut the lead to 6-4 but that would be the final score. 

The Yankees swept the doubleheader and took two out of three in the series.  They will head to Toronto to begin a three-game series on Friday night.