The New York Yankees edged the Oakland Athletics yesterday at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum with the Yankees securing the victory 3 to 1. 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 Phil Hughes (2.19 ERA) got the win, while Ben Sheets (2.74 ERA) took the loss for the Athletics. Phil Hughes went 7.1 solid innings for the Yankees, allowed one hit, no home runs and one earned run with 2 walks and 10 strikeouts. Also pitching for the Yankees was Joba Chamberlain (2.16). The Athletics’s starter Ben Sheets went 6 innings, allowed 4 hits, no home runs and 2 earned runs with 3 walks and 4 strikeouts. Jerry Blevins (3.38), and Tyson Ross (2.70) also pitched for the Athletics. With the win, Hughes’s record goes to 2-0, while Sheets drops to 1-1. Mariano Rivera earned the save for the Yankees, bringing his saves up to 6.
In addition to the 3 runs, the Yankees put up 8 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. The Athletics got one run, 3 hits and no errors.
Umpiring duties were performed by Tom Hallion, Ron Kulpa, Mike Muchlinski and Lance Barksdale. There were 30,211 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 get in on the action.