New York Yankees Breaking News Yanks Take Two

NEW YORK - March 17, 2019 - PRLog -- The New York Yankees divided the team into two split squads in MLB Grapefruit League spring training games team one traveling to Sarasota Ed Smith Stadium to take on the Baltimore Orioles.

In Sarasota, Jonathan Loaisiga 2-1 got the start for the Yankees pitching 3 innings of scoreless baseball shutting the Birds down on just 1 hit as 4 Yankee pitchers combined to defeat the Baltimore Orioles 5 to 3.

The  Bronx Bombers SS 1 was paced by home runs by Miguel Andujar, Luke Voit and Zack Zehner for the offensive production necessary to dispose of the Orioles making a loser of Baltimore Mike Wright 1-1 who went 5 innings giving up 4 runs and 8 hits to absorb the loss. The Yankees combined for an 11 hit attack.
Meanwhile, the New York Yankees SS  team 2 traveled to Clearwater Spectrum Field to play the Philadelphia Phillies beating them 7 to 3.

Yankees starter James Paxton started the game pitching  4 solid innings of no-hit baseball giving up just 1 earned run struck out 4 but was not the pitcher of record. Six Yankee pitchers combined to limit the Phillies to just 4 hits and Dellin Betances came in pitching a scoreless 6th inning to record the win he is 1-0 in spring training.

The Phillies countered with starter Jerad Eickhoff who pitched 3 innings give up 2 hits while striking out 5. Bryce Harper played in the game going 0-3 with a walk.

The Yankees offense was led by Greg Bird, Gleyber Torres, and Troy Tulowitzki all who homered to lead the Yankees to their second victory of the day. The Yankees improved their record to 13-6 good for first place in MLB Grapefruit League Division.

Bronx Bomber Blues RJ Suitor commented that it makes it more difficult for his spring training media staff providing Yankees Spring Training Media Reports to try to divide up to cover both Yankee SS teams playing simultaneously.  Suitor states  "Playing split-squad games is something that happens frequently in spring training to assure all teams are getting their players in enough live action games to prepare for the regular season. It can become a logistics problem for our media teams who we must divide in two.,  If the Yankees can manage so too can the Bronx Bomber Blues".  Suitor added "As a media staff, you make it work so both ss teams get equal coverage. We managed just fine commented Suitor."

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