Thursday, April 14, 2022

New York Yankees shutout the Toronto Blue Jays

 The New York Yankees were defeated by the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night.  The game took place

at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score was 4-0.  Nestor Cortes Jr. started for the 

Yankees and he pitched well, bullpen was great and DJ LeMahieu and Gleyber Torres each had two hits to

lead the offense.  


Cortes pitched 4 1/3 innings giving up three hits and no runs or walks with five strikeouts.  Clay Holmes

won his first game of the season pitching 1 2/3 innings with two strikeouts, Miguel Castro pitched a 

perfect inning and Jonathan Loaisiga pitched an inning giving up two hits with a strikeout.  Aroldis 

Chapman pitched a perfect inning with two strikeouts.  


Yusei Kikuchi pitched 3 1/3 innings giving up five hits and three runs with two earned.  He walked two

and struck out two.  Kikuchi lost his first game of the season, David Phelps pitched 2/3 of an inning and

Julian Merryweather pitched a perfect inning.  Tim Mayza pitched a perfect inning and Anthony Kay 

pitched two innings giving up two hits and a run with a walk and three strikeouts.  


Josh Donaldson drew two walks, Aaron Judge had a hit and Anthony Rizzo had a hit.  Giancarlo Stanton

had an RBI, LeMahieu had two hits and Torres had two hits.  Aaron Hicks had a hit, two RBI and drew a

walk, Rizzo, LeMahieu, Torres and Judge each hit a double.  Hicks hit a homerun and the Yankees were

1-9 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base.  Donaldson committed an error.  


George Springer had two hits, Bo Bichette had a hit and Teoscar Hernandez had a hit.  Matt Chapman had

a hit, Springer hit a double and Chapman hit a double.  The Blue Jays were 0-6 with runners in scoring 

position and left six men on base.  Springer had a stolen base, Heineman committed an error and 

Hernandez had an outfield assist.  


In the second Hicks hit a two-run homer giving the Yankees a 2-0 lead.  In the bottom of the fourth

an error pushed the lead to 3-0.  In the eighth a Stanton sac fly made it 4-0 and that was the final

score.  The two teams will play game three of four on Wednesday night.  

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