The New York Yankees defeated the
Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday. The game
took place at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida and the final
score was 7-5. Corey Kluber started for
the Yankees and he pitched well. Aroldis
Chapman, Justin Wilson, Luis Cessa all had good outings. DJ LeMahieu and Aaron Hicks led the offense
with a couple of hits each.
Kluber pitched four innings giving
up four hits and two runs. He walked
none and struck out two and earned his first victory of the spring. Chapman pitched a perfect inning with a
strikeout, Darren O’Day pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with three
strikeouts and Wilson pitched an inning giving up two hits and he struck out
one. Chad Green pitched an inning giving
up two hits and two runs with a walk and Cessa earned his first save of the
spring pitching an inning with a strikeout.
LeMahieu had two hits and three
RBI, Socrates Brito had a hit and an RBI and Hicks had two hits and an RBI. Gleyber Torres had a hit, Brett Gardner had a
hit and Ryan LaMarre had a hit and two RBI.
Hicks hit a double, LeMahieu, LaMarre and Brito each hit a homerun and
the Yankees were 4-7 with runners in scoring position and left two men on
base. Duran was caught stealing and
Peraza committed an error.
In the first Hicks hit an RBI
double giving the Yankees a 1-0 lead. In
the second LeMahieu hit a three-run homerun to push the Yankees lead to
4-0. In the third Troy Stokes hit a solo
homerun cutting the lead to 4-1. Erik
Gonzalez hit an RBI ground out in the fourth cutting the lead to 4-2. In the sixth Bryan Reynolds hit a solo
homerun making it a 4-3 game. In the
seventh LaMarre hit a two-run homerun pushing the Yankees lead to 6-3. In the eighth Rodolfo Castro hit a two-run
homerun cutting the lead to 6-5. In the
eighth Brito hit a solo homerun making it a 7-5 game and that would be the
final score.
The Yankees will head to Dunedin,
Florida to take on the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday afternoon.
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