After a promising start, the Cleveland Baseball Club fell short to the visiting New York Yankees in the first game of their series.
Based off the first inning it seemed like this was going to be an easy win for the Cleveland Baseball Club. Domingo German seemed to be on the ropes and it appeared it was going to be an early night. The overall feeling of the game was the Cleveland was going to cruise to an early win, but it was not meant to be.
German allowed 3 runs on 4 hits and some sloppy defense did not help him one bit. The problem is that German settled in and kept Cleveland off the scoreboard for 5 more innings. There was a chance to knock out the Yankee pitcher and mess up their staff for the entire weekend, but they were not able to continue their early success.
The issue for Cleveland came in the 3rd inning with Aaron Civale on the mound. Civale seemed to be doing just fine until he seemed to unravel. A leadoff double by Kyle Higashioka started this off for New York and he move to third on a balk. With 1 out DJ LeMaheiu would drive in the Yankees first run of the game. After striking out Aaron Judge, Mike Ford would reach on a walk. Gleyber Torres would single and end up on third on an error from Josh Naylor, allowing 2 more runs to score tying the game.
The 7th inning also proved to be an issue for Cleveland. Nick WIttgren was on the mound and 2 runs on 2 hits in just two-thirds of an inning. These runs in addition to the run allowed by Cal Quantrill later in the game was all the Yankees needed. Aroldis Chapman closed the game for New York in the 9th and sealed the loss for Cleveland.
