Monday, April 4, 2022

New York Yankees pound the Atlanta Braves in blowout victory

 The New York Yankees defeated the Atlanta Braves in a rain shortened six inning game on Saturday.  

The game took place at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida and the final score was 

10-0.  Luis Severino started for the Yankees and had his best start of the spring.  DJ LeMahieu led

the offense with three hits.  

Severino picked up the win pitching four innings and giving up a hit and no runs with no walks and 

three strikeouts.  Nestor Cortes pitched two innings giving up a hit and no runs with three strikeouts.  

Josh Donaldson had a hit and an RBI, Aaron Judge had two hits and an RBI and Anthony Rizzo had 

two hits and an RBI.  Giancarlo Stanton drew two walks, LeMahieu had three hits and an RBI and 

Joey Gallo drew a walk.  Aaron Hicks had two hits and two RBI, Kyle Higashioka had two hits and 

three RBI.  Hicks hit a double, Judge and Rizzo each hit a homerun and Higashioka hit two homeruns.  

In the bottom of the first Judge hit a solo homerun giving the Yankees a 1-0 lead.  In the bottom of the 

second Donaldson hit an RBI single pushing the lead to 2-0, Rizzo hit a solo homerun in the third to

extend the lead to 3-0.  Hicks hit a two-run double and Higashioka hit a two-run homerun pushing the 

lead to 7-0.  In the fourth a wild pitch made it 8-0 and LeMahieu hit an RBI single to make it a 9-0 game.

Higashioka hit a solo homerun in the fifth for his second of the game and to finish the scoring at 10-0.  

The Yankees will play at Dunedin against the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday.  

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