Yanks Defeat Astros 7-6

The Yankees defeated the Houston Astros 7-6 today at Osceoloa County Stadium in Kissimmee.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Yankees	0	1	3	0	0	3	0	0	0		7	14	4
Astros	0	2	3	0	0	1	0	0	0		6	10	1

The offensive stars of the game for the Yankees were Robinson Cano(3-for-4, 2 RBI) and Shelley Duncan(2-for-4, 2 RBI). Morgan Ensberg (2-for-4, RBI) and Melky Cabrera (2-for-3, 2 R) also had good games.

As I mentioned in my previous post Mussina got hit pretty hard today, but besides that every other Yankee pitcher did their job. Karstens, Ramirez, Jackson, McCutchen, and Melancon combined for seven innings of four-hit ball, while walking none and striking out four.

Here are the full hitting totals:

NY Yankees AB R H RBI BB SO LOB AVG Damon, LF 4 1 1 0 0 0 1 .286 Gardner, B, CF 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 .400 Cabrera, CF 3 2 2 0 1 0 1 .500 Castro, B, 2B 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .000 Cano, 2B 4 1 3 2 0 0 1 .571 Jackson, A, LF 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Duncan, DH 4 1 2 2 0 0 2 .571 a-Porter, PH-DH 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Ensberg, 1B 4 1 2 1 0 1 3 .286 Green, 3B 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .000 Betemit, 3B 2 0 0 0 2 1 2 .143 Tabata, J, RF 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 .000 Lane, RF 4 0 0 1 0 0 6 .333 Gonzalez, SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 .500 Cervelli, C 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1.000 Anson, C 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 .500 Woodward, SS 3 1 1 0 0 1 2 .571 Ransom, 1B 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 .250 Totals 38 7 14 6 7 6 26 Here are the Yankees pitching totals: NY Yankees IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA Mussina 2.0 6 5 4 0 0 1 18.00 Karstens (W, 1-0) 3.0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0.00 Ramirez (H, 1) 1.0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0.00 Jackson, S (H, 1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 McCutchen (H, 1) 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.00 Melancon (S, 1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00

The Yankees play the Blue Jays at Knology Park on Tuesday at 1:05 p.m. With right-hander Phil Hughes on the mound going up against Toronto right-hander Jesse Litsch.