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By Nick Ziegler (@Ziggy26x)
June 14th, 2013
New York Yankees vs Los Angeles Angels
Post Game Recap
Final Score: Yankees 2 Angels 5
The New York Yankees West Coast trip
started out nicely in Seattle, but since then has been a disaster
after getting swept by the Oakland Athletics, the Yankees lost the
series opener to the Los Angeles Angels 5-2. The loss moves the
Yankees to (37-30), which is still three games back of the Boston Red
Sox for first place in the AL East, as the Baltimore Orioles have
been gaining ground in the division.
Starter Andy Pettitte, coming off a
great start in Seattle couldn’t carry that over to Los Angeles, as
he suffered his fourth loss of the season. The Angels wasted little
time getting a run off Pettitte, as Howie Kendrick doubled home Josh
Hamilton for the first run of the game in the first inning. In the
fourth inning Chris Iannetta would hit a sac-fly to score Mark Trumbo
to tie the game at that point at two. Iannetta would knock in another
run in the seventh inning to give the Angels a 3-2 lead with a RBI
single scoring Trumbo. The final run off Pettitte wasn’t entirely
his fault, as Reid Brignac and David Adams let a fly ball drop in
between them hit by Peter Bourjos, who later scored from a Trumbo
single. Overall Pettitte went seven innings allowing four runs on 11
hits, and one walk.
Angels Starter C.J. Wilson had a great
start against the struggling Yankees lineup, and got his fifth win of
the year. The Yankees were only able to get two runs off of Wilson,
as David Adams got a base hit with the bases loaded in the fourth
inning to score Robinson Cano and Vernon Wells. Wilson ended up going
seven innings only allowing two runs on five hits, and three walks.
A golden opportunity for the Yankees
was blown in the eighth inning after getting two runners on with no
outs against Kevin Jepsen the Yankees bats couldn’t get them home.
Three fly outs by Robinson Cano, Wells, and Ichiro Suzuki ended the
threat for the Yankees, and seemed to end any chance they had of
winning this game.
A few Yankees made their debuts on
Friday night, as Thomas Neil got the start in Right Field, and had a
nice night at the plate going one for two with a walk, but was pinch
hit for by Suzuki in the eighth inning. Chris Bootcheck also made his
debut out of the bullpen in the eighth inning, but unlike Neil his
debut didn’t go so well, as he allowed a run on two hits, and two
walks.
David Phelps (4-3, 3.90) will be on the
mound for the Yankees, as he will try to end their four-game losing
streak, and the Angels will be sending Tommy Hanson (3-2, 4.12) to
the mound.
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