New York Yankees doubled up by the Los Angeles Dodgers

 

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night.  The game took place at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California and the final score was 8-4.  Luis Severino started for the Yankees and he pitched terribly.  The Yankees bullpen kept them in the game and Josh Donaldson led the offense with two homeruns. 

Severino pitched four innings giving up nine hits and seven runs with a walk and two strikeouts.  Severino took his first loss of the season.  Tommy Kahnle making his season debut coming off an injury pitched an ining giving up a hit and a walk with a strikeout, Ryan Weber pitched two innings giving up two hits and a run with a strikeout and Albert Abreu pitched an inning giving up a hit. 

Clayton Kershaw started for the Dodgers and he pitched seven innings giving up four hits and two runs with a walk and nine strikeouts.  Kershaw won his seventh game of the season.  Yency Almonte pitched an inning with a walk and Phil Bickford pitched an inning giving up a hit and two runs with a walk and two strikeouts. 

Gleyber Torres had a hit, Giancarlo Stanton had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Donaldson had two hits and three RBI.  Jose Trevino had a hit, Jake Bauers drew a walk and Greg Allen drew a walk.  Donaldson hit two homeruns and Stanton hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 0-1 with runners in scoring position and left three men on base.  Trevino committed an error and Trevino had a pickoff. 

Mookie Betts had four hits and three RBI with a walk, Will Smith had two hits and Max Muncy had a hit and two RBI.  J.D. Martinez had two hits and an RBI, Jayson Heyward had two hits and Miguel Vargas had a hit and drew a walk.  James Outman had a hit and an RBI, Miguel Rojas had an RBI and Heyward hit a double.  Betts hit two homeruns and Muncy and Martinez each hit a homerun.  The Dodgers were 3-5 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base.  Betts had a stolen base and Outman was picked off. 

In the bottom of the first Betts hit a solo homerun, Muncy hit a two-run homerun and the Dodgers had a 3-0 lead.  Outman hit an RBI single, Rojas hit a sac fly and Betts hit an RBI single pushing the lead to 6-0.  In the top of the second Donaldson hit a solo homerun cutting the lead to 6-1.  In the bottom of the third Martinez hit a solo homerun and the lead was 7-1.  In the top of the fourth Stanton hit a solo homerun cutting the lead to 7-2.  Betts hit a solo homerun in the bottom of the eighth making it 8-2.  In the top of the ninth Donaldson hit a two-run homer and it was 8-4 which would be the final score. 

The two teams will play game two of three on Saturday night.