New York Yankees take Game 1 in dominating fashion from the Cleveland Indians

The New York Yankees defeated the Cleveland Indians in Game 1 of the Wild Card Series on Tuesday night.  The game took place at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio and the final score was 12-3.  Gerrit Cole started for the Yankees and he pitched well.  The Yankees offense was led by Gleyber Torres who had four hits and Brett Gardner who had three hits. 

Cole pitched seven innings giving up six hits and two runs with no walks and 13 strikeouts.  Cole earned his first win of the postseason.  Luis Cessa pitched two innings giving up two hits and a run with a walk and a strikeout. 

Shane Bieber pitched for the Indians and he took his first loss of the postseason.  He pitched 4 2/3 innings giving up nine hits and seven runs with two walks and seven strikeouts.  Phil Maton pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up no hits or runs with a  strikeout, Adam Cimber pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up two hits and three runs with a  walk and Cam Hill pitched two innings giving up three hits and two runs with two strikeouts.  Oliver Perez pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit. 

DJ LeMahieu had two hits and an RBI, Aaron Judge had a hit and two RBI and Aaron Hicks drew two walks.  Luke Voit had two hits and an RBI, Giancarlo Stanton had a hit and an RBI, Gio Urshela had a hit and an RBI and Torres had four hits, three RBI and drew a walk.  Gardner had three hits and three RBI and Kyle Higashioka had a hit.  Voit and Gardner each hit a double.  Judge, Torres, Gardner and Stanton each hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 3-8 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base. 

Cesar Hernandez had a hit, Jose Ramirez had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Josh Naylor had four hits and an RBI.  Tyler Naquin had a hit and an RBI, Delino DeShields had a hit and Naylor hit two doubles.  Ramirez also hit a double and Naylor hit a homerun.  The Indians were 3-7 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base. 

In the first Judge hit a two-run homerun to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead.  In the third Voit hit an RBI double to extend the lead to 3-0.  In the bottom of the third Ramirez hit an RBI double cutting the lead to 3-1.  In the fourth Gardner hit an RBI double to make it a 4-1 game.  LeMahieu hit an RBI single and the lead was pushed to 5-1.  In the bottom of the fourth Naylor cut the lead to 5-2 with a solo homerun.  In the fifth Torres hit a two-run homerun and the lead was 7-2.  Urshela hit a sac fly in the seventh to make it 8-2 and then Torres hit an RBI single and Gardner hit a two-run homerun and it was 11-2.  The Yankees added another run in the ninth on a Stanton solo homerun making it 12-2.  Naquin hit an RBI single in the bottom of the ninth to cut the lead to 12-3 and that was the final score.