New York Yankees rally to win rubber game over the Texas Rangers

 

The New York Yankees defeated the Texas Rangers on Sunday afternoon.  The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score was 5-3.  Gerrit Cole started for the Yankees and he battled through 4 2/3 innings.  The bullpen was great and Harrison Bader led the offense with two hits and two RBI. 

Cole pitched 4 2/3 innings giving up nine hits and three runs with a walk and seven strikeouts.  Jimmy Cordero pitched an inning giving up a hit and a walk, Nick Ramirez pitched 1 1/3 innings striking out one and Ron Marinaccio picked up his fourth win of the season pitching an inning and giving up a hit.  Michael King pitched an inning giving up a hit and struck out two and earned his fifth save of the season. 

Nathan Eovaldi started for the Rangers and he pitched 5 2/3 innings giving up four hits and two runs with two walks and five strikeouts.  Josh Sborz pitched 1 1/3 innings with three strikeouts, John King pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up two hits and two runs and took his first loss of the season and Yerry Rodriguez pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up two hits and a run with a walk. 

Gleyber Torres had a hit, Bader had two hits and two RBI and Anthony Rizzo drew a walk.  Giancarlo Stanton had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk, Jake Bauers had a hit and drew a walk and DJ LeMahieu had a hit and two RBI.  Anthony Volpe had a hit, Jose Trevino had a hit and Torres, Bauers, Volpe and LeMahieu each hit a double.  Bader hit two doubles.  The Yankees were 4-12 with runners in scoring position and left three men on base.  Trevino had a pickoff. 

Marcus Semien had two hits, Corey Seager had a hit and an RBI and Nathaniel Lowe had two hits.  Josh Jung had a hit and drew a walk, Jonah Heim had two hits and an RBI and Ezequiel Duran had two hits.  Leody Taveras had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk.  Semien, Taveras and Lowe each hit a double and Duran hit two doubles.  Heim hit a homerun and the Rangers were 3-10 with runners in scoring position and left ten men on base.  Taveras had a stolen base and was picked off. 

In the top of the first Seager had an RBI single to give the Rangers a 1-0 lead.  In the second Heim hit a solo homerun pushing the Rangers lead to 2-0.  Taveras hit an RBI double and it was 3-0 Rangers.  In the bottom of the second LeMahieu hit a two-run double cutting the lead to 3-2.  In the eighth Bader hit a two-run double giving the Yankees a 4-3 lead and Stanton hit an RBI single making it 5-3 and that would be the final score.  The Yankees took two out of three in the series and four out of six on the homestand.  They will be off on Monday and then head to Oakland to begin a three-game series on Tuesday night.