New York Yankees rout the Detroit Tigers

 

The New York Yankees defeated the Detroit Tigers on Friday night.  The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score was 10-0.  Gerrit Cole started for the Yankees and he pitched well and the bullpen also pitched well.  Giancarlo Stanton had three hits and Aaron Judge had five RBI to lead the offense. 

Cole won his fourth game of the season pitching six innings and giving up four hits and no runs with no walks and 12 strikeouts.  Luis Cessa pitched an inning with a walk and two strikeouts, Wandy Peralta pitched an inning with a strikeout and Lucas Luetge pitched a perfect inning striking out the side. 

Tarik Skubal started for the Tigers and he pitched three innings giving up five hits and four runs with two walks and a strikeout.  Skubal lost his fourth game of the season.  Buck Farmer pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up three hits and four runs with a walk, Bryan Garcia pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a run with two walks and a strikeout and Tyler Alexander pitched three innings giving up four hits and a run with three strikeouts.  Daniel Norris pitched an inning giving up two hits. 

DJ LeMahieu had a hit, Brett Gardner had a hit and Stanton had three hits.  Judge had two hits and five RBI, Gio Urshela had two hits and an RBI and Gleyber Torres had a hit and drew a walk.  Tyler Wade had a hit, Aaron Hicks had two hits and two RBI and Clint Frazier had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Kyle Higashioka drew two walks and Roughned Odor had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Stanton and Hicks each hit a double and Frazier, Hicks and Odor each hit a homerun and Judge hit two homeruns.  The Yankees were 3-10 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base. 

Robbie Grossman had a hit, Jonathan Schoop had a hit and drew a walk and Jeimer Candelario had a hit.  Wilson Ramos had a hit and the Tigers were 0-1 with runners in scoring position and left four men on base. 

In the first Urshela hit an RBI single giving the Yankees a 1-0 lead.  In the second Frazier hit a solo homerun pushing the lead to 2-0 and in the third Hicks hit a two-run homerun extending the lead to 4-0.  In the bottom of the fourth Judge hit a grand slam and the score was 8-0 Yankees.  Hicks hit an RBI double making it 9-0 and in the fifth Odor hit a solo homerun to end the scoring at 10-0.  The two teams will play game two of three on Saturday afternoon.