The New York Yankees defeated the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 1 of a doubleheader on Saturday
afternoon. The game took place at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida and the final score was 8-4.
Gerrit Cole started for the Yankees and he pitched well. Aaron Judge led the offense with three hits and
Giancarlo Stanton and Gio Urshela added a couple of hits each.
Cole pitched 4 2/3 innings giving up six hits and three runs with a walk and ten strikeouts. Chad Green
picked up his second win of the season pitching 1 1/3 innings and giving up a run and two walks with
two strikeouts and Adam Ottavino pitched a perfect inning with two strikeouts.
Tyler Glasnow pitched 2 2/3 innings giving up five hits and four runs with three walks and five
strikeouts. Glasnow took his first loss of the season. Sean Gilmartin pitched 3 1/3 innings giving up
five hits and three runs with a walk and four strikeouts and Oliver Drake pitched an inning giving up
a hit and a run with a walk.
DJ LeMahieu had a hit, Judge had three hits and two RBI and Mike Ford had a hit and two RBI.
Stanton had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk, Gleyber Torres had a hit and drew a walk and Mike
Tauchman had a hit. Urshela had two hits, three RBI and drew a walk, Gary Sanchez drew two walks
and Urshela and Tauchman each hit a double. Ford, Stanton and Judge each hit a homerun and the
Yankees were 1-7 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base. Tauchman had a stolen
base and Sanchez had a passed ball.
Yandy Diaz had a hit, Ji-Man Choi had two hits and an RBI and Jose Martinez had a hit and two RBI.
Yoshi Tsutsugo drew a walk, Hunter Renfroe drew a walk and Joey Wendle drew a walk. Willy Adames
had a hit, Kevin Kiermaier had an RBI and Mike Zunino had a hit. Adames and Zunino each hit a
double and Choi hit two doubles. Martinez hit a homerun and the Rays were 2-8 with runners in
scoring position and left five men on base.
In the third Ford hit a two-run homerun to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead. Urshela hit a two-run doubleex
and the lead extended to 4-0. In the fifth Stanton hit a solo homerun to push the lead to 5-0. In the
bottom of the fifth Choi hit an RBI double to cut the lead to 5-1. Martinez hit a two-run homerun and
it was cut to 5-3. In the sixth Judge hit a two-run homerun to push the lead back to four at 7-3.
In the bottom of the sixth Kiermaier hit an RBI groundout to make it 7-4 and that was as close as it
got. Urshela added a sac fly in the seventh and the final score was 8-4.
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