The New York Yankees defeated the
Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday night.
The game took place at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada and the final
score was 11-5. Masahiro Tanaka started
for the Yankees and labored, the bullpen was ok and the offense broke out
especially late. Garett Cooper had four
hits to lead the attack.
Tanaka pitched four innings giving
up two hits and three runs with two of them being earned. He walked five and struck out two. Chad Green won his second game of the season
pitching 1 1/3 innings and giving up two hits and two runs with three
strikeouts, Tommy Khanle pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a walk
with a strikeout and David Robertson pitched a perfect inning with a
strikeout. Dellin Betances pitched an
inning with a strikeout and Adam Warren pitched an inning giving up a hit and a
walk with a strikeout.
Nick Tepesch pitched 4 1/3 innings
giving up eight hits and five runs with a walk and four strikeouts. Tepesch lost his second game of the
season. Leonel Campos pitched 2/3 of an
inning giving up two hits and a run with a strikeout, Aaron Loup pitched an inning
with a strikeout and Dominic Leone pitched an inning giving up a hit and a
run. J.P. Howell pitched to one batter
and struck him out, Taylor Cole pitched an inning giving up six hits and four
runs with a walk and a strikeout and Danny Barnes pitched 2/3 of an inning with
a strikeout.
Brett Gardner had a hit and drew a
walk, Chase Headley had a hit and Aaron Judge drew a walk. Didi Gregorius had three hits and an RBI,
Gary Sanchez had two hits and an RBI and Todd Frazier had three hits and three
RBI. Jacoby Ellsbury had a hit and two
RBI, Cooper had four hits and two RBI and Ronald Torreyes had two hits and two
RBI. Gardner, Gregorius, T. Frazier,
Ellsbury and Cooper each hit a double.
Sanchez, T. Frazier and Gregorius each hit a homerun and the Yankees
were 5-13 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base. Sanchez committed an error which was catchers
interference.
Jose Bautista had a hit and an RBI,
Josh Donaldson had a hit, an RBI and drew three walks and Justin Smoak drew a
walk. Steve Pearce had a hit, an RBI and
drew a walk, Kevin Pillar had a hit and Norichika Aoki had a hit and an
RBI. Ryan Goins had a hit, an RBI and
drew a walk, Raffy Lopez drew a walk and Pillar and Goins each hit a double and
Bautista hit a homerun. The Jays were
1-8 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base. Aoki had an outfield assist.
In the second Sanchez hit a solo
homerun and T. Frazier followed it up with a solo homerun giving the Yankees a
2-0 lead. In the second Aoki hit an RBI
ground out to cut the lead to 2-1. In
the third Gregorius hit a solo homerun to extend the lead to 3-1. In the bottom of the third Pearce hit a sac
fly to cut the lead to 3-2. In the fifth
T. Frazier hit a two-run double to push the lead to 5-2 and Ellsbury hit an RBI
double making it 6-2. In the fifth
Bautista hit a solo homerun to make it a 6-3 game. In the sixth Goins hit an RBI double to cut
the lead to 6-4 and Donaldson hit an RBI single to make it a 6-5 game. In the eighth Torreyes hit a two-run single
to extend the lead to 8-5 and in the ninth Ellsbury hit an RBI ground out and
Cooper hit a two-run single making it 11-5 which would be the final score of
the game.
The two teams have split the first
two games of the series and the rubber game will be on Thursday night.
