The New York Yankees faced off against the Toronto Blue Jays yesterday at New Yankee Stadium with the Yankees securing the victory 5 to 1. It was a great baseball game that fans with cheap Yankee tickets online will remember for quite some time.
Yankees pitcher Phil Hughes (3.96 ERA) got the win, while Shaun Marcum (3.44 ERA) took the loss for the Blue Jays. Phil Hughes went 5.1 innings for the Yankees, allowed 4 hits, no home runs and one earned run with 2 walks and 5 strikeouts. Also pitching for the Yankees was Boone Logan (3.24), Joba Chamberlain (5.36), David Robertson (4.19), and Mariano Rivera (0.91). The Blue Jays’s starter Shaun Marcum went 6 innings, allowed 8 hits, one home run and 5 earned runs with one walk and 5 strikeouts. Shawn Camp (2.81), and Casey Janssen (3.99) also pitched for the Blue Jays. With the win, Hughes’s record goes to 13-4, while Marcum drops to 10-5.
In addition to the 5 runs, the Yankees put up 10 hits and committed no errors. Derek Jeter led the Yankees in hitting with 4 hits, followed by Mark Teixeira’s 2 hits. Alex Rodriguez had a tough day at the plate, leaving 5 runners on base. The Blue Jays didn’t have anyone with a big night with not one batter getting more than 2 hits. Travis Snider could not get much going at the plate as he left 4 runners on base. The Blue Jays got one run, 5 hits and no errors.
Umpiring duties were performed by Tim McClelland, Andy Fletcher, Mike Everitt and Adrian Johnson. There were 47,659 Yankees ticket holders in attendance at New Yankee Stadium.