The New York Yankees defeated the
Minnesota Twins on Monday afternoon. The
game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score
was 6-5 in ten innings. Luis Gil started
for the Yankees and got off to a bad start but then battled it out for six
innings. The bullpen was good and Joey
Gallo led the offense with two hits.
Gil pitched six innings giving up
seven hits and five runs with a walk and eight strikeouts. Andrew Heaney pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up
a hit and a walk and he struck out two batters, Albert Abreu pitched to one
batter and retired him and Aroldis Chapman pitched an inning giving up a hit
and a walk with two strikeouts. Clay
Holmes pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout and he earned his eighth win
of the season.
John Gant started for the Twins and
he only pitched 2/3 of an inning walking a batter. He left with an injury. Luke Farrell pitched 2 1/3 innings giving up
a walk and he struck out two, Caleb Thielbar pitched an inning giving up a hit
and Kyle Barraclough pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a hit and a run with a
walk. Tyler Duffey pitched two innings
giving up a hit and three runs with two walks and a strikeout, Alex Colome
pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and a run with four strikeouts and Ralph
Garza Jr. pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit and an unearned run. He took his third loss of the season.
DJ LeMahieu had an RBI, Brett
Gardner had a hit and drew a walk and Aaron Judge had a hit, three RBI and drew
a walk. Gallo had two hits and an RBI,
Luke Voit drew a walk and Tyler Wade drew a walk. Anthony Rizzo drew a walk, Sanchez had a hit
and an RBI and Gardner hit a double.
Gallo and Judge each hit a homerun.
The Yankees were 2-5 with runners in scoring position and left three men
on base. Wade had a stolen base.
Luis Arraez had two hits, Byron
Buxton had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk and Jorge Polanco had a hit and two
RBI. Josh Donaldson drew a walk, Max
Kepler had a hit and drew a walk and Miguel Sano had three hits and two
RBI. Arraez hit a double and Polanco,
Sano and Buxton each hit a homerun. The
Twins were 0-7 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on
base.
In the first Polanco hit a two-run
homerun and Sano hit a two-run homerun giving the Twins a 4-0 lead. In the third Buxton hit a solo homerun
pushing the lead to 5-0. In the bottom
of the sixth LeMahieu hit a sac fly to cut the lead to 5-1. In the seventh Gallo hit a solo homerun
making it a 5-2 game. In the bottom of
the eight Judge hit the big blow which was a three-run homerun tying the game
at five. In the tenth Sanchez hit a
walk-off RBI single to give the Yankees a 6-5 victory. The Yankees will now head to Baltimore to
take on the Orioles for three games beginning Tuesday night.
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