The New York Yankees faced off against the Toronto Blue Jays yesterday at Rogers Centre with the Yankees securing the victory 8 to 4. It was a great baseball game that fans with cheap Yankee tickets online will remember for quite some time. There’s not much better than a baseball game so get your MLB tickets before its too late.
Yankees pitcher Alfredo Aceves (3.58 ERA) got the win, while Marc Rzepczynski (3.74 ERA) took the loss for the Blue Jays. Sergio Mitre went 4.1 innings for the Yankees, allowed 8 hits, one home run and 3 earned runs with 2 walks and 3 strikeouts. Also pitching for the Yankees was Phil Coke (4.91), Phil Hughes (3.60), and David Robertson (3.60). The Blue Jays’s starter Marc Rzepczynski went 6 innings, allowed 5 hits, one home run and 4 earned runs with one walk and 7 strikeouts. Josh Roenicke (3.52), Jesse Carlson (5.05), and Brian Tallet (5.07) also pitched for the Blue Jays. With the win, Aceves’s record goes to 7-1, while Rzepczynski drops to 1-3.
In addition to the 8 runs, the Yankees put up 10 hits and committed no errors. Johnny Damon led the Yankees in hitting with 3 hits, followed by Robinson Cano’s 2 hits, and Nick Swisher with 2. The Blue Jays didn’t have anyone with a big night with not one batter getting more than 2 hits. The Blue Jays got 4 runs, 11 hits and no errors.
Umpiring duties were performed by Rob Drake, Mark Wegner, Tim Timmons and Jeff Kellogg. There were 31,402 Blue Jays ticket holders in attendance at Rogers Centre.
The win puts the Yankees at a record of 65-42, at the top of their division, while the loss brings the Blue Jays to 51-56, (14 games behind the division leader). Next up for the Yankees are the Boston Red Sox (62-44) at Boston Red Sox New Yankee Stadium. If you are in the area you might want to check out what’s available for Boston Red Sox tickets because that game should be a good one. The Blue Jays will next take on the Baltimore Orioles (45-62) at Rogers Centre in what should be a very good game of MLB baseball. Buy your Baltimore Orioles tickets today and get in on the action.