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NEW YORK, NY - JULY 07: Brett Lawrie #15 of the Oakland Athletics follows through on his tenth inning home run against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on July 7, 2015 in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

Yankees game 83: Betances gives up big homer in loss

Oakland Athletics 4 – New York Yankees 3 (10 innings)

In the first inning, Nathan Eovaldi surrendered the first run on a pair of singles from Stephen Vogt and Josh Reddick to put the A’s ahead by one. The Yankees had a response in the bottom of the inning against the A’s ace, Sonny Gray. Brett Gardner, making his bid for the final all-star spot, started the bottom of the first with a leadoff single. After a walk by Chase Headley, Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira became the first and second outs. Fortunately for the Yankees, Brian McCann found grass in shallow left with a broken-bat single over the shortstop to tie the game at one. Garrett Jones followed with a sharp single to right to put the Yankees ahead.

After the action-packed first inning, the second inning was harmless. But in the third inning, Eovaldi found himself in trouble quickly.

Three consecutive singles from Marcus Semien, Billy Burns and Stephen Vogt drove in the tying run. Like the second inning, Eovaldi induced a double play to finish the inning and keep the game tied at two.

In the bottom of the fourth inning, Brian McCann led off with a walk and Garrett Jones went to left field for a single to start the inning strong. Chris Young grounded into a double play that seemingly took the life out of the inning but Didi Gregorius managed to come through with a two-out single to right to break the tie.

Nathan Eovaldi got two scoreless innings and the first out in the sixth before being removed from the game. In 5 1/3 innings, Nathan Eovaldi allowed two runs on six hits with a walk and four strikeouts.

The statistics appear to indicate he would begin to struggle at his pitch count (86) and his third time through the lineup. Chasen Shreve came in for Eovaldi.

After getting Reddick on a strikeout, Billy Butler showed his prowess against left-handed pitchers when he took the first pitch he saw from Shreve and put it in the left field seats, settling Eovaldi with a no decision.

With the game tied, Adam Warren and Justin Wilson provided a scoreless inning each to get the game into the ninth for the closer Dellin Betances.

After a scoreless ninth inning by the All-Star Betances, including two strikeouts, the tall righty came out for the 10th inning. Unfortunately, on a hanging breaking ball, Brett Lawrie took Dellin Betances deep, the second home run he allowed in as many outings to break the tie.

Against former Yankee Tyler Clippard, the Yankees threatened when Brett Gardner walked with one out. Clippard appeared to be losing the strike zone with two outs too when he walked Alex Rodriguez to put the potential tying run in scoring position. Mark Teixeira got ahead 3-0 against Clippard before he worked it back to a full count. With the bases loaded and the count full, Clippard went to his old reliable changeup to get Teixeira way out in front for the strikeout to end a tough Yankees loss to the A’s.

 

Win – Drew Pomeranz (3-3)

Loss – Dellin Betances (5-2)

Save – Tyler Clippard (16)

 

Notables

Athletics

*Brett Lawrie – 1 for 4, R, Solo home run (7) in the 6th, RBI (37)

*Stephen Vogt – 2 for 4, R, RBI (54)

Yankees

*Brian McCann – 1 for 3, R, BB, RBI (53)

*Garrett Jones – 2 for 4, RBI (15)

 

Current Yankees Record: 44-39