New York Yankees blow lead and lose on a walk-off in the ninth to the Brewers

 

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night.  The game took place at American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the final score was 7-6.  Frankie Montas started for the Yankees and he wasn’t very good, the bullpen was good.  Aaron Judge, Gleyber Torres, Oswaldo Cabrera and Aaron Hicks each had two hits. 

Montas pitched 3 1/3 innings giving up four hits and four runs with four walks and two strikeouts.  Lucas Luetge pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up two hits and a run, Greg Weissert pitched to one batter and struck him out and Domingo German pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a hit and a walk with two strikeouts.  Wandy Peralta pitched to one batter and struck him out, Lou Trivino pitched an inning with three strikeouts, Jonathan Loaisiga pitched an inning giving up a hit and an unearned run with a walk and Clay Holmes lost his fourth game of the season pitching 2/3 of an inning and giving up two hits and a run with two walks and a strikeout. 

Adrian Houser started for the Brewers and he pitched three innings giving up seven hits and five runs with four of them being earned.  He walked four and struck out one.  Peter Strzelecki pitched an inning giving up a hit and a walk with two strikeouts, Justin Topa pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a hit and striking out two and Hoby Milner pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a walk and a strikeout.  Brad Boxberger pitched a perfect inning with two strikeouts, Devin Williams pitched a perfect inning with two strikeouts and Taylor Rogers pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run with a strikeout and he earned his fourth win and blew his ninth save of the season. 

Judge had two hits and drew a walk, Giancarlo Stanton drew a walk and Torres had two hits.  Josh Donaldson had a hit and three RBI, Cabrera had two hits and drew three walks and Isiah Kiner-Falefa had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Marwin Gonzalez had a hit and an RBI, Hicks had two hits and Torres, Hicks and Cabrera each hit a double.  Donaldson hit a homerun and the Yankees were 2-11 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base.  Kiner-Falefa committed an error. 

Christian Yelich had a hit and drew a walk, Willy Adames had two hits, four RBI and drew a walk and Rowdy Tellez had an RBI.  Hunter Renfroe had two hits, Kolten Wong had a hit and Andrew McCutchen drew two walks.  Jace Peterson drew two walks, Omar Narvaez had two hits and Victor Caratini drew a walk.  Garrett Mitchell had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk.  Adames, Narvaez and Renfroe each hit a double.  Adames hit a homerun and the Brewers were 4-16 with runners in scoring position and left 12 men on base.  Wong committed an error and Narvaez had a passed ball. 

In the first Donaldson hit a sac fly and Kiner-Falefa hit an RBI single, Gonzalez hit an RBI single and it was 3-0 Yankees.  In the second Donaldson hit into a forceout and there was an error, two runs scored and the lead was extended to 5-0.  In the bottom of the second Adames hit a three-run homerun cutting the lead to 5-3.  In the bottom of the fourth Adames hit an RBI double and it was a 5-4 game.  Tellez hit a sac fly to tie the game at five.  In the bottom of the eighth Adames reached on a fielding error and a run scored making it 6-5 Brewers.  In the ninth Donaldson hit a solo homerun tying the game at six.  In the bottom of the ninth Mitchell hit an RBI walk-off single.  The two teams will play game two of three on Saturday night. 

New York Yankees get shutout in Tampa

 

The New York Yankees were defeated by the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday night.  The game took place at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida and the final score was 9-0.  Domingo German started for the Yankees and he pitched well, the bullpen did not.  The Yankees offense only managed five hits. 

German pitched 6 2/3 innings giving up six hits and three runs with two of them being earned.  He walked two and struck out one and took his third loss of the season.  Greg Weissert pitched an inning giving up three hits and three runs with two strikeouts, Anthony Banda pitched giving up two hits and three runs with three walks and Marwin Gonzalez pitched to one batter getting him out. 

Jeffrey Springs started for the Rays and he pitched 5 2/3 innings giving up four h its and no runs with three walks and seven strikeouts.  Springs won his seventh game of the season.  JT Chargois pitched an inning with a walk and a strikeout, Colin Poche pitched to one batter and struck him out and Jason Adam pitched a perfect inning with two strikeouts.  Calvin Faucher pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out two. 

DJ LeMahieu drew a walk, Aaron Judge drew a walk and Andrew Benintendi had a hit.  Giancarlo Stanton drew a walk, Jose Trevino had a hit and Gleyber Torres had a hit.  Aaron Hicks had a hit and drew a walk, Isiah Kiner-Falefa had a hit, Benintendi and Kiner-Falefa each hit a double and the Yankees were 0-7 with runners in scoring position and left 10 men on base.  Donaldson committed two errors and Weissert committed an error.  Cabrera had an outfield assist. 

Yandy Diaz had an RBI and drew two walks, Manuel Margot had three hits and two RBI and Harold Ramirez had two hits.  Randy Arozarena had a hit.  David Peralta had a hit and an RBI, Yu Chang had a hit and an RBI and Isaac Paredes drew a walk.  Jose Siri drew a walk, Christian Bethancourt had two hits and two RBI and Tyler Walls had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Ramirez hit a double and Bethancourt hit a homerun.  The Rays were 4-8 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.  Bethancourt committed an error. 

In the fourth Peralta hit an RBI single to give the Rays a 1-0 lead.  In the seventh Bethancourt hit a two-run homerun to extend the lead to 3-0.  In the eighth Chang hit a two-run single, Walls drew an RBI walk, Diaz drew an RBI walk and Margot hit a two-run single to make it 9-0 Rays and that would be the final score. 

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

New York Yankees roughed up the Boston Red Sox

 

The New York Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox on Friday night.  The game took place at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts and the final score was 12-5.  Nestor Cortes Jr. started for the Yankees and he didn’t pitch well.  The bullpen did pitch well and the offense was led by Gleyber Torres who had three hits. 

Cortes pitched 3 2/3 innings giving up eight hits and four runs with two walks and four strikeouts.  Miguel Castro won his fifth game of the season pitching 1 1/3 innings and giving up a hit and he struck out three.  Albert Abreu pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up three hits and a run with a strikeout and Lucas Luetge pitched 3 1/3 innings giving up a hit and a walk and he struck out six.  Luetge saved his first game of the season. 

Connor Seabold started for the Red Sox and he pitched 2 2/3 innings giving up nine hits and seven runs.  He walked two and struck out two and took his second loss of the season.  Michael Feliz pitched 3 1/3 innings giving up a hit and two runs with one of them being earned and he walked two and struck out four, Austin Davis pitched two innings giving up three hits and two runs and he struck out one and Jackie Bradley Jr. pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with three walks and a strikeout. 

DJ LeMahieu had two hits and drew a walk, Aaron Judge drew a walk and Matt Carpenter had three hits and two RBI.  Isiah Kiner-Falefa had an RBI and drew a walk, Torres had three hits and two RBI and Josh Donaldson had a hit, three RBI and drew a walk.  Aaron Hicks had two hits and drew two walks, Jose Trevino had two hits and Marwin Gonzalez had had an RBI and drew a walk.  Joey Gallo had a hit and two RBI, Hicks, Carpenter, Trevino and Torres each hit a double and Gallo hit a triple.  Donaldson and Carpenter each hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 4-16 with runners in scoring position and left ten men on base.  Donaldson and Gonzalez each had a stolen base. 

Rob Refsnyder had four hits, J.D. Martinez had three hits and a walk and Xander Bogaerts had an RBI.  Christian Vazquez had three hits and two RBI, Alex Verdugo drew a walk and Trevor Story had a hit and an RBI.  Christian Arroyo had a hit, Bobby Dalbec had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Vazquez and Refsnyder each hit a double.  Story and Dalbec each hit a homerun and the Red Sox were 2-9 with runners in scoring position and left 12 men on base.  Vazquez committed an error. 

In the first Torres hit an RBI single and Donaldson a three-run homerun to give the Yankees a 4-0 lead.  In the bottom of the first Vazquez hit a two-run double cutting the lead to 4-2.  In the second Carpenter hit an RBI double pushing the Yankees lead to 5-2.  In the third Gallo hit a two-run triple extending the lead to 7-2.  Carpenter hit a solo homerun in the fourth making it 8-2 and Donaldson stole a base and scored on a throwing error making it 9-2.  In the bottom of the fourth Story hit a solo homerun and Dalbec hit a solo homerun cutting the lead to 9-4.  In the bottom of the sixth Bogaerts hit an RBI groundout making it a 9-5 game.  In the seventh Gonzalez hit a sac bunt and a run scored, in the eighth Torres hit an RBI double and in the ninth IKF had an RBI walk making it 12-5 and that would be the final score. 

The Yankees have taken the first two games and will play game three of four on Saturday night.  The series will conclude on Sunday night. 

New York Yankees pummel the Pittsburgh Pirates

 The New York Yankees defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday night.  The game took place at 

PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the final score was 16-0.  Luis Severino started for the Yankees

And he pitched great and the bullpen was good.  Isiah Kiner-Falefa led the offense with four hits and 

DJ LeMahieu and Aaron Judge each had three hits.  

Severino pitched six innings giving up four hits and no runs with three strikeouts.  Severino won his fifth 

Game of the season.  Wandy Peralta pitched an inning and he struck out one, Aroldis Chapman pitched

An inning with a strikeout and Albert Abreu pitched an inning giving up a walk and he struck out two.  

Mitch Keller started for the Pirates and he pitched six innings giving up ten hits and four runs with a walk

And seven strikeouts.  Keller lost his sixth game of the season.  Tyler Beede pitched an inning giving up 

A hit and a run with two walks and two strikeouts, Manny Banuelos pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up 

Three hits and five runs with two walks and a strikeout and Chris Stratton pitched 2/3 of an inning with

Two walks.  Josh VanMeter pitched an inning giving up eight hits and six runs with a walk, he is a 

Position player.  

LeMahieu had three hits, two RBI and drew a walk, Judge had three hits, four RBI and drew a walk and 

Marwin Gonzalez had a hit.  Matt Carpenter had a hit, Aaron Hicks had two hits and four RBI and

Giancarlo Stanton had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Gleyber Torres had two hits and drew two walks,

Josh Donaldson had two hits and two RBI and Joey Gallo had a hit, an RBI and drew two walks.  

Kiner-Falefa had four hits and Kyle Higashioka had two hits, two RBI and drew a walk.  Carpenter, 

Torres, Judge and Hicks each hit a double and Donaldson, Gallo, Higashioka, Judge, Hicks and Stanton

Each hit a homerun.  The Yankees were 7-18 with runners in scoring position and left 12 men on base.  

Kiner-Falefa, LeMahieu and Judge each had a stolen base.  

Ke’Bryan Hayes had a hit, Bryan Reynolds had two hits and Bligh Madrid drew a walk.  

Oneil Cruz had a hit, Reynolds hit a double and the Pirates were 0-3 with runners in scoring position and

Left five men on base.  Tsutsugo committed an error and Gamel had an outfield assist.  

In the fifth LeMahieu hit a two-run single to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead.  In the sixth Donaldson hit a solo

Homerun pushing the lead to 3-0 and Gallo hit a solo homerun making it 4-0.  In the seventh Higashioka

Hit a solo homerun extending the lead to 5-0.  In the eighth Judge hit a grand-slam pushing the lead to 

9-0 and a Donaldson sac fly made it 10-0.  In the ninth Hicks hit a grand-slam making it 14-0 and Stanton

Hit a solo homerun and Higashioka had an RBI single to finish the scoring at 16-0.  

The two teams split the brief two game series and the Yankees will head to Boston to begin a four-game

Series with the Red Sox on Thursday night.  

New York Yankees lose in Pittsburgh

 The New York Yankees were defeated by the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night.  The game took place 

At PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the final score was 5-2.  Jameson Taillon started for the 

Yankees and he didn’t pitch very well.  The bullpen did pitch well and the offense was led by Isiah Kiner-

Falefa who had three hits.  Gleyber Torres and Matt Carpenter each had two hits.  

Jameson Taillon pitched 5 1/3 innings giving up six hits and five runs with no walks and five strikeouts.  

Taillon lost just his second game of the season, Lucas Luetge pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up three hits

And he struck out one and Aroldis Chapman pitched a perfect inning.  

Jose Quintana started for the Pirates and won his second game of the season.  He pitched five innings

Giving up six hits and a run with seven strikeouts.  Wil Crowe pitched two innings giving up two hits

And he walked one and Duane Underwood Jr. pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with a walk

And a strikeout.  David Bednar pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out one and saved his 

13th game of the season.  

DJ LeMahieu had a hit and drew a walk, Aaron Judge had a hit and an RBI and Torres had two hits and 

Drew a walk.  Carpenter had two hits and drew a walk, Aaron Hicks had a hit and Kiner-Falefa had three

Hits.  Hicks, Torres and Kiner-Falefa each hit a double and the Yankees were 2-9 with runners in scoring

Position and left nine men on base.  Stanton committed an error.  

Bryan Reynolds had two hits, Jack Suwinski had two hits and two RBI and Daniel Vogelbach had a hit

And an RBI.  Yoshi Tsutsugo had two hits, Oneil Cruz had an RBI and Ben Gamel had two hits and 

An RBI.  Reynolds and Gamel each hit a double and Vogelbach and Suwinski each hit a homerun.  

The Pirates were 2-4 with runners in scoring position and left four men on base.  

In the second Vogelbach hit a solo homerun giving the Pirates a 1-0 lead.  In the fourth Suwinski hit a 

Two-run homerun pushing the lead to 3-0.  Gamel hit an RBI double extending the lead to 4-0.  In the 

Fifth Judge hit an RBI single cutting the lead to 4-1 and in the bottom of the sixth Cruz hit a sac fly

Pushing the lead to 5-1.  In the top of the eighth Carpenter hit an RBI single cutting the lead to 5-2 and

That would be the final score of the game.  

The two teams will play the second and final game of the series on Wednesday night.