Monday, May 13, 2013

Game 1: Yankees 0, Indians 1.

Not much happened in game one of the Yankees double header in Cleveland on Monday and when I mean not a lot happened, I mean not a lot happened.

Justin Masterson was masterful and the Yankees couldn't manage anything more than four hits and a couple walks off the Cleveland righty over nine innings in the shutout performance.

David Phelps didn't have the best of days on the mound, but he was still able to battle through 6 2/3 innings. After he walked Michael Bourn for his 1st of 5 issued walks, Bourn was caught stealing at 2nd, followed by a solo home run from Jason Kipnis.

As I mentioned Phelps went 6 2/3 innings, allowing only 1 run on 4 hits, while walking 5 and striking out 7. Boone Logan (0.1) and Preston Claiborne (1) combined for 1 1/3 shutout innings out of the bullpen.

Corbin Joseph made his major league debut playing 1st base, a position in which he has played very much in his career, and went 0-for-2 with a walk at the plate. Joseph will play game two at 2nd base, with Cano being the DH.

Game 2: Yankees 7, Indians 0.

With Vidal Nuno making his 1st career major league start, the Yankees were able to not only get an offensive outburst after being shutout in game one, but backed that offense with a nine inning shutout of their own.

Cleveland jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the 1st inning of game one, the Yankees did the same thing in game two and they never looked back.

The Yankees exploded out for six runs on the 7th inning. After Corbin Joseph double to leadoff the inning, Austin Romine doubled to bring him home. A couple for runs later, with the score at 4-0, Lyle Overbay double into right-center field to drive home two more runs.

One more run would come in to score in the inning, giving Adam Warren more than enough runs to finish off the Indians. Warren followed up a very impressive start from Nuno by throwing four shutout innings from the bullpen to pick up his 1st major league save.

Nuno tossed five scoreless innings, giving up only 3 hits, while walking 3 and striking out 3, on 89 pitches. The walks were unlike Nuno but his 5 shutout innings keep his ERA at a crisp 0.00 for the season.

Both Vernon Wells and Jayson Nix continued their hot hitting on the Yankees road trip by finishing it off with a 2-for-4 performance at the plate.

It was a day of firsts for the Yankees, with Nuno earning his 1st career win, Warren picked up his 1st career save, Corbin Joseph got his 1st career hit, and Austin Romine drove in his 1st career run.

Today's win helped cap off a very successful 6-2 road trip for the bombers. After losing the 1st game in Colorado, the Yanks rebounded to win the next two games of the series. Followed by a three game sweep of the Royals over the weekend.

The Yankees will now head back to the Bronx for a 6 game homestand beginning on Tuesday with three games against the Mariners, then three against Toronto over the weekend.

Prior to the game he Yankees went down OF Brennan Boesch to make room for pitcher Brett Marshall on the roster. Marshall will likely be sent down to possibly make room for Curtis Granderson to rejoin the team in New York on Tuesday.

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