New York Yankees humiliate Cleveland Indians 9-1 in third-straight night - MLB Update
The New York Yankees completely outclassed the Cleveland Indians for a 9-1 victory in the third-straight day, to take a 3-0 lead in the four-game series, at Yankee Stadium, New York on Sunday, June 12.
After clinching 11-7 and 4-0 win over the Indians in two consecutive nights, the Yankees have gained their confidence back, which they lost after receiving a three-game series sweep from Boston Red Sox. The Yankees’ centre-fielder Curtis Granderson led the
game off with a sacrifice fly to the right-fielder in the bottom of the third inning.
After Granderson gave a 1-0 advantage to the Yankees, Derek Jeter, who was just nine hits short of 3000 mark, drove in an RBI single in the bottom of the fifth inning for a second run. Then Alex Rodriguez bunted a line drive double followed by an RBI single
each by Robinson Cano and Jorge Posada in the fifth inning to take it to 6-0.
By this time, the Yankees’ starter Freddy Garcia held the opposition to no-score. In his 11th start of the season, he gave his first run to Michael Brantley up the middle of the seventh inning. After this run, the Yankees’ manager Joe Girardi
replaced Garcia with Boone Logan, who tossed six strikes of 12 pitches to complete seventh inning.
The 34-year-old Garcia struck-out six batters while allowing just two walks and one run on seven hits in just over six innings to earn his fifth win of the season. Reliever Luis Ayala and closer Kevin Whelan followed Garcia and did not gave away any run
over their single inning of pitching each.
The batters carried their momentum into the eighth inning when Jeter hit his 2993rd RBI hit followed by a ground rule double for an RBI single by Curtis Granderson. Then Alex Rodriguez hit a line drive single to right-field to finalise the score to 9-1.
The Indians utilised four pitchers including their promising starter Josh Tomlin, who yielded six runs on twelve hits apart from one walk and two strike-outs over five innings. Tomlin lost his second straight game since he made his seventh win against Boston
on June 1.
Relievers’ Frank Herrmann and Tony Sipp each threw scoreless one inning at the time when the Yankees were on the peak of their swinging. Just after the Yankees blistered five runs in the fifth inning, Herrmann entered in the sixth, managed to escape powerful
swinging of the Yankees and took one batter. Sipp followed Herrmann and took out one batter without allowing any run in the seventh inning. However, closer Chad Durbin consumed three runs on four hits in the eighth inning.
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