New York Yankees rally to sweep the Kansas City Royals

 The New York Yankees defeated the Kansas City Royals on Sunday afternoon.  The game took place

at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri and the final score was 6-4.  Luis Severino started for the

Yankees and he battled, the bullpen was good.  The offense was led by Aaron Judge who had two homers.

Severino pitched five innings giving up seven hits and four runs with three being earned.  He walked one

and struck out four.  Clarke Schmidt pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out one and picked

up his second win of the season.  Lucas Luetge pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up two hits and he struck 

out one, Michael King pitched 1 2/3 innings striking out two and Aroldis Chapman pitched an inning

giving up a hit and a walk and he picked up his sixth save of the season.  

Daniel Lynch started for the Royals and he pitched five innings giving up four hits and three runs.

He walked one and struck out four, Taylor Clarke pitched an inning giving up two hits, Dylan Coleman

lost his first game of the season giving up two walks and two runs.  Scott Barlow pitched two innings 

giving up a hit and a walk with a strikeout and Josh Staumont pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run

with a walk and two strikeouts.  

DJ LeMahieu had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk, Judge had two hits and three RBI and Josh Donaldson 

had a hit, an RBI and drew two walks.  Giancarlo Stanton had a hit and drew a walk, Miguel Andujar

had two hits and Isiah Kiner-Falefa had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Kiner-Falefa hit a double, Judge

hit two homeruns and the Yankees were 1-8 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.

Donaldson committed an error.  

Nicky Lopez had two hits, Whit Merrifield had two hits and drew a walk and Andrew Benintendi had

a hit and drew a walk.  Carlos Santana had a hit and an RBI, Kyle Isbel had a hit and Michael Taylor

had two hits and an RBI.  Cam Gallagher had a hit, Edward Olivares had a hit and Benintendi and 

Santana each hit a double and Taylor hit a homerun.  The Royals were 1-10 with runners in scoring 

position and left eight men on base.  Olivares was caught stealing.

In the first Judge hit a solo homerun giving the Yankees a 1-0 lead.  In the third Taylor hit a solo homer

tying the game at one.  A wild pitch scored another run and Santana hit an RBI double making it 3-1.

In the fourth Gallagher hit a sac bunt and a run scored pushing the Royals lead to 4-1.  In the fifth 

Kiner-Falefa hit an RBI double and LeMahieu an RBI single cutting the lead to 4-3.  In the seventh

Judge hit an RBI groundout tying the game at four and Donaldson reached on a fielders choice scoring 

a run and making it 5-4 Yankees.  In the ninth Judge hit a solo homerun extending the lead to 6-4 and 

that would be the final score.  The Yankees swept the three-game series and have won nine in a row.

They will head to Toronto to begin a three game series on Monday night.