Thursday, October 17, 2024

New York Yankees double up the Cleveland Guardians to take commanding lead in ALCS

 

The New York Yankees defeated the Cleveland Guardians in Game 2 of the ALCS.  The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score was 6-3.  Gerrit Cole started for the Yankees and he grinded it out.  The bullpen pitched great and the offense was led by Gleyber Torres who had three hits.  Aaron Judge also had three RBI including a two-run homerun. 

Cole pitched 4 1/3 innings giving up six hits and two runs with four walks and four strikeouts.  Clay Holmes picked up his second win of the postseason pitching 2/3 of an inning giving up a walk and he struck out one, Tim Hill pitched 1 2/3 innings with a strikeout and Tommy Khanle pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and a walk with a strikeout.  Luke Weaver pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run. 

Tanner Bibee started for the Guardians and he pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up five hits and three runs with two of them being earned.  He walked one and struck out two and took his first loss of the postseason.  Cade Smith pitched 1 2/3 innings with two strikeouts, Tim Herrin pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out one and Eli Morgan pitched a perfect inning.  Erik Sabrowski pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up two hits and an unearned run with a walk, Pedro Avila pitched to one batter and got him out and Hunter Gaddis pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up two hits and two runs.  Ben Lively pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and a walk with two strikeouts. 

Torres had three hits, Juan Soto had a hit and drew a walk and Judge had a hit and three RBI.  Jazz Chisholm had a hit, Anthony Volpe had two hits and drew a walk and Anthony Rizzo had two hits.  Alex Verdugo had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Torres, Verdugo, Chisholm Jr. and Rizzo each hit a double.  Judge hit a homerun and the Yankees were 2-10 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.  Chisholm Jr. was caught stealing. 

Steven Kwan had a hit and drew a walk, Kyle Manzardo had a hit and Jose Ramirez had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Josh Naylor had two hits and an RBI, Lane Thomas had a hit and drew two walks.  Will Brennan had an RBI, Andres Gimenez drew two walks and Brayan Rocchio had two hits.  Ramirez hit a homerun and the Guardians were 0-7 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base.  Ramirez had a stolen base and Rocchio and Brennan each committed an error.  Sabrowski had a pickoff. 

In the bottom of the first Judge reached on an error and a run scored giving the Yankees a 1-0 lead.  In the bottom of the second Verdugo hit an RBI double and the lead was extended to 2-0.  Judge hit a sac fly and it was 3-0 Yankees.  In the top of the fifth Naylor hit a sac fly cutting the lead to 3-1.  Brennan grounded out making it 3-2.  In the bottom of the sixth Rizzo hit an RBI double pushing the lead to 4-2.  In the bottom of the seventh Judge hit a two-run homerun extending the lead to 6-2.  In the top of the ninth Ramirez hit a solo homerun cutting the lead to 6-3 and that would be the final score.  The Yankees take a commanding 2-0 series lead and will head to Cleveland for Game 3 on Thursday afternoon. 

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