The New York Yankees were defeated
by the Boston Red Sox on Friday night.
The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the
final score was 3-2. Gerrit Cole started
for the Yankees and he pitched well as did the bullpen. DJ LeMahieu and Isiah Kiner-Falefa led the
offense with two hits each but the offense didn’t do much.
Cole pitched six innings giving up
seven hits and two runs with a walk and six strikeouts. Cole took his first loss of the season. Albert Abreu pitched 1/3 of an inning giving
up two hits and a run with a strikeout, Nick Ramirez pitched an inning giving
up a hit and a walk with a strikeout and Jimmy Cordero pitched 1 2/3 innings with
two strikeouts.
Garrett Whitlock started for the
Red Sox and he pitched 6 1/3 innings giving up seven hits and two runs with
only one being earned. He walked one and
struck out six and won his third game of the season. Nick Pivetta pitched to two batters and
retired them both, Chris Martin pitched a perfect inning and Kenley Jansen
pitched an inning giving up two hits and he struck out one and earned his 14th
save of the season.
LeMahieu had two hits, Josh
Donaldson had a hit and an RBI and Giancarlo Stanton had a hit. Kiner-Falefa had two hits, Billy McKinney had
a hit and Gleyber Torres had a hit and drew a walk. Anthony Volpe had a hit, Donaldson hit a
homerun and the Yankees were 0-3 with runners in scoring position and left
seven men on base. Kiner-Falefa had a
stolen base and was caught stealing.
Alex Verdugo had two hits, Justin
Turner had two hits and Rafael Devers had two hits and an RBI. Adam Duvall drew a walk, Triston Casas had
two hits, an RBI and drew a walk. Kolten
Wong had a hit, Kike Hernandez had a hit and an RBI and Devers hit a double and
a homerun. Hernandez also hit a homerun
and the Red Sox were 1-4 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on
base. Wong committed an error.
In the fourth Casas hit an RBI single
giving the Red Sox a 1-0 lead. In the
sixth Devers hit a solo homerun pushing the Red Sox lead to 2-0. In the bottom of the sixth Donaldson hit a
solo homerun cutting the lead to 2-1. In
the seventh Hernandez hit a solo homerun increasing the Red Sox lead to
3-1. IN the bottom of the seventh Torres
drew an RBI walk to make it 3-2 and that would be the final score.
The two teams will play game two of
three on Saturday night.
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