The New York Yankees edged the Kansas City Royals yesterday at Kauffman Stadium with the Yankees securing the victory 4 to 3. It was a great baseball game that fans with NY Yankees tickets will remember for quite some time.
Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia (3.14 ERA) got the win, while Bruce Chen (4.50 ERA) took the loss for the Royals. CC Sabathia went 8.2 solid innings for the Yankees, allowed 10 hits, no home runs and 3 earned runs with 2 walks and 3 strikeouts. The Royals’s starter Bruce Chen went 5 innings, allowed 8 hits, one home run and 3 earned runs with 2 walks and 2 strikeouts. Kanekoa Texeira (3.96), Greg Holland (4.50), and Joakim Soria (2.11) also pitched for the Royals. With the win, Sabathia’s record goes to 15-5, while Chen drops to 7-6. David Robertson earned the save for the Yankees, bringing his saves up to 1.
In addition to the 4 runs, the Yankees put up 10 hits and committed no errors. Nick Swisher led the Yankees in hitting with 3 hits, followed by Curtis Granderson’s 2 hits, and Austin Kearns with 2. Francisco Cervelli had a tough day at the plate, leaving 5 runners on base. Willie Bloomquist had the most hits for the Royals (3), followed by Mike Aviles (2), and Alex Gordon (2). The Royals got 3 runs, 12 hits and 2 errors.
Umpiring duties were performed by Gary Cederstrom, Ed Hickox, Field Culbreth and Mike Muchlinski. There were 23,337 Royals ticket holders in attendance at Kauffman Stadium.