The New York Yankees faced the the Oakland Athletics yesterday at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum with the Yankees winning 7 to 3. It was quite a game that followers with cheap Yankee tickets online will be talking about for days. In fact all sports are a great time so check out what sports tickets are out there.
Yankees pitcher Javier Vazquez (8.27 ERA) got the win, while Gio Gonzalez (5.40 ERA) took the loss for the Athletics. Javier Vazquez went 5.1 innings for the Yankees, allowed 6 hits, 2 home runs and 3 earned runs with 3 walks and 6 strikeouts. Also pitching for the Yankees was Boone Logan (0.00), Joba Chamberlain (2.35), Damaso Marte (0.00), and Mariano Rivera (0.00). The Athletics’s starter Gio Gonzalez went 4.1 innings, allowed 3 hits, no home runs and 5 earned runs with 5 walks and 5 strikeouts. Craig Breslow (5.40), Edwar Ramirez (1.93), and Brad Ziegler (3.86) also pitched for the Athletics. With the win, Vazquez’s record goes to 1-2, while Gonzalez falls to 1-1.
In addition to the 7 runs, the Yankees managed 5 hits and committed no errors. It wasn’t a huge day for anyone at the plate for the Yankees, as nobody managed more than 2 hits. The Athletics didn’t have anyone with a big night with not one batter getting more than 2 hits. Kevin Kouzmanoff could not get much going at the plate as he left 4 runners on base. The Athletics managed 3 runs, 8 hits and no errors.
Umpiring duties were performed by Ed Rapuano, Tom Hallion, Ron Kulpa and Lance Barksdale. There were 19,849 Athletics ticket holders in attendance at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
The win puts the Yankees at a record of -, ( games behind first place in the division), while the loss brings the Athletics to -, ( games behind the division leader). Next up for the Yankees are the (-) at the Athletics’s Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. If you are in the area you might want to check out what’s available for tickets because that game should be a good one. The Athletics will next take on the (-) at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in what should be a very good game of MLB baseball. Buy your tickets today and be there for first pitch.