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 18th 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 37th 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 15th 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.