The New York Yankees drop game to the Toronto Blue Jays

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday afternoon.  This was the first game of the grapefruit league season for both teams.  The final score was 6-4 Toronto.  Michael King started for the Yankees and he didn’t pitch very well, the bullpen was pretty good and the hitting was a mixed bag.  They did hit two homeruns but early on weren’t even able to produce a hit. 

King started and he ended up pitching two innings giving up three hits and three runs with two walks and a strikeout.  He took the loss, Asher Wojciechowski pitched an inning giving up three hits and a run with two strikeouts, Kyle Barraclough pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with a walk and two strikeouts and Adam Warren pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out two.  Lucas Luetge pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out two and Nick Goody pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run. 

Anthony Kay started for the Blue Jays and he pitched two perfect innings with two strikeouts.  T.J. Zeuch pitched two innings giving up two hits and a run and he picked up the win, Jacob Waguespack pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up three hits and three runs and Anthony Castro pitched 2/3 of an inning with a strikeout.  Joey Murray pitched an inning with a strikeout and Bryan Baker pitched an inning with two strikeouts. 

DJ LeMahieu had a hit, Gleyber Torres had a hit and Luke Voit had an RBI.  Miguel Andujar had a hit, Rob Brantly had a hit and two RBI and Mike Tauchman had a hit and an RBI.  Torres hit a double, Brantly and Tauchman each hit a homerun and the Yankees were 0-3 with runners in scoring position and left two men on base. 

Cavan Biggio had a hit and an RBI, Marcus Semien had a hit and drew a walk and Bo Bichette drew two walks.  Lourdes Gurriel Jr. had a hit and an RBI, Forrest Wall had a hit and Vlad Guerrero Jr. had a hit.  Rowdy Tellez had two hits and two RBI, Logan Warmoth had two hits and an RBI and Jonathan Davis had a hit and an RBI.  Tellez, Biggio and Warmoth each hit a double, Warmoth hit a homerun and the Blue Jays were 4-15 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base.  Davis Lopez and Wall each had a stolen base.  Lopez committed an error. 

In the first Tellez hit a two-run double to give the Blue Jays a 2-0 lead.  In the second Biggio hit an RBI double making it 3-0.  In the third Davis hit an RBI single to extend the Blue Jay lead to 4-0 and Gurriel Jr. hit an RBI single pushing the lead to 5-0.  In the bottom of the fourth Voit reached on a fielding error and a run scored cutting the lead to 5-1.  In the bottom of the fifth Brantly hit a two-run homerun followed by a Tauchman solo homerun cutting the lead to 5-4.  In the seventh Warmoth hit a solo homerun making it 6-4 and that was the final in seven innings.  Yes in spring training this year and right now they are able to play 5 or 7 inning games if they don’t want to play nine then in a couple weeks they will all be eighter seven or nine innings. 

The Yankees will remain at home and take on the Detroit Tigers tomorrow.  Gerrit Cole and Jameson Taillon will get their first action of the spring in the game.