Aaron Judge Hit 2 -Run Home Run Scoring DJ Lemahieu, Ginacarlo Stanton Hit Home Run , Anthony Rizzo Hit 3 -Run Home Run, New York Beat Minnesota 10-4 Tuesday Though, They Committed 3 Errors
Aaron Judge Hit 2-Run home run scoring DJ Lemahieu, Giancarlo Stanton hit home run, Anthony Rizzo hit 3- run home run as New York beat Minnesota 10-4 Tuesday.
Aaron Judge homered 431 feet to give New York a 2-0 lead. Then Giancarlo Stanton homered to left 445 feet to make the score 3-0 New York. Then things got interesting as Max Kepler hit sacrifice fly to right Byron Buxton scored to trim deficit 3-1 New York . Then in the bottom of the 3rd inning Jorge Polanco doubled to deep right for Minnesota, Luis Arraez scored to trim the deficit 3-2 New York. Then New York expanded their lead by two in in the top of the 4th inning on Aaron Judge single to left scoring Joey Gallo to make score 4-2 New York . Then in the bottom of the 4th inning Jermaine Polacios hit sacrifice to center scoring former New York third baseman current Minnesota third baseman Gio Urshela trimming the deficit to 4-3 New York. Then in the top of the 5th inning DJ Lemahieu walked , Aaron Hicks scored while Joey Gallo went to second base Jose Trevino went to third base to make score 5-3 New York . Then in the bottom of the 5th inning Jorge Polanco homered to right 423 feet to trim the deficit to 5-4 New York. From there though it was all New York offensively as Anthony Rizzo hit 3-run home run to right 410 feet scoring DJ Lemahieu, Aaron Judge to extend New York’s lead to 8-4 in the top of 7th inning . Then in the top of 8th inning Jose Trevino singled to right scoring Aaron Hicks while Isiah Kiner -Falefa went to third base . Then Joey Gallo singled to left center scoring Isiah - Kiner Falefa while Jose went to second.
Though , the game wasn’t all pretty for New York as the defense committed 3 errors.
Those errors were an E4 on third baseman Josh Donaldson on the throw an E3 on first baseman Anthony Rizzo an E2 on throw by reliever Lucas Luetge.
“according to espn.com”
Josh Donaldson had this to say about New York’s performance defensively!
We played a little sloppy,”We have a deep team; bullpen, offense is deep as well. Obviously, you don’t want to continue to play like that, but it was nice to pick each other up right there and still win that ballgame."
“according to Brian Hall’s article on mlb.com”
In the process New York became the first MLB team to reach 40 wins making their record 40-15.
New York is now going to prepare to play game two of their three game series in Minnesota.
Nestor Cortes, Chris Archer are starting as New York, Minnesota are continuing their series that is a three game series tonight in Minneapolis Minnesota.
Nestor Cortes, Chris Archer are different because Nestor Cortes is a left handed starting pitcher!
Chris Archer is a right handed starting pitcher!
Nestor Cortes comes into the game with a record of 5-1 with an earn run average of 1.50.
Chris Archer comes into the game with a record of 0-2 with an earn run average of 3.89.
“according to espn app”
First pitch is set for 7:40pm from Target Field!
The game is going to be televised on Yes, Ballsports North, FS1!