Palms finish sweep of Yankees behind Markakis, Kragh

The Miami Palms finished off a four-game sweep of the New York Yankees on Sunday afternoon, riding an early Nick Markakis home run and seven solid innings from Brian Kragh to a 6–3 victory at Yankee Stadium.

Markakis wasted no time setting the tone, drilling his sixth homer of the year in the top of the first. Miami added on with a pair of runs in the second, then strung together more offense in the third, fifth, and sixth. Rookie Ian Pfaff notched his first big-league RBI with a single in the sixth, while shortstop Matt Koch delivered a pair of run-scoring hits, including a ringing triple in the second.

The Yankees closed the gap briefly with Gleyber Torres’ two-run homer in the third and a solo shot from DJ LeMahieu in the fifth, but Kragh steadied himself and worked into the seventh inning. He scattered nine hits and three runs, striking out three without walking a batter.

From there, Cody Allen and Chris Martin closed it out, with Martin earning his 12th save.

Offensively, the Palms racked up 13 hits, with multi-hit games from Markakis, Edwin Encarnación, Koch, Pfaff, and Greg Garcia.

Roster moves: After the game, the club optioned reliever Allan Persons to Triple-A Jackson and activated veteran lefty Manny Parra from the injured list.

With the sweep, Miami improved to 21–15.

 Miami Palms 6, New York Yankees 3

 Sunday, May 3, 2020


 Miami Palms (21-15)                                      New York Yankees (2-8)                                  

 Player          AB R  H BI BB SO  P  A  E LOB   Ave      Player          AB R  H BI BB SO  P  A  E LOB   Ave      

 ------          -- -  - -- -- --  -  -  - ---   ---      ------          -- -  - -- -- --  -  -  - ---   ---      

 Markakis cf     5  1  2  2  0  0  3  0  0  3   .304      Tauchman cf     5  0  3  0  0  0  2  0  0  0   .286

 Grant rf        5  0  0  0  0  2  4  0  0  0   .272      LeMahieu 2b     5  1  1  1  0  0  1  1  0  0   .304

 Korb 3b         4  1  1  0  1  0  1  2  0  0   .303      Torres ss       5  1  1  2  0  0  1  1  0  2   .200

 Encarnacion dh  4  1  2  0  1  1  0  0  0  2   .277      Stanton lf      4  0  1  0  0  1  4  0  0  1   .341

 Wieters c       4  1  1  0  1  2  4  1  0  0   .280      Ford dh         4  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0   .250

 Pfaff 1b        5  0  2  1  0  2  7  1  0  2   .400      Judge rf        4  0  4  0  0  0  5  0  0  0   .333

 Holt lf         4  1  1  0  1  0  1  0  0  0   .267      Voit 1b         4  0  0  0  0  0  4  0  0  0   .293

 Koch ss         5  1  3  2  0  0  5  1  0  3   .225      Urshela 3b      4  0  0  0  0  1  0  1  0  4   .214

 Garcia 2b       4  0  1  1  0  2  1  1  0  1   .357      Kratz c         4  1  1  0  0  1  10 0  0  2   .286

 

                 -- -  - -- -- -- -- -- -- ---                            -- -  - -- -- -- -- -- -- ---            

 Totals          40 6  13 6  4  9  27 9  0  11            Totals          39 3  12 3  0  3  27 3  0  9  

 

 

                          1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10     R  H  E

                          -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -      -  -  -

 Miami Palms              1  2  1  0  1  1  0  0  0         6  13 0  

 New York Yankees         0  0  2  0  1  0  0  0  0         3  12 0  


 LOB- Miami Palms 11, New York Yankees 9; 2B- Koch(2), Wieters(6), Tauchman(2), Kratz(1),

 Judge 2(3); 3B- Koch(2); HR- Markakis(6), Torres(3), LeMahieu(3); RBI- Koch 2(5),

 Garcia(6), Markakis 2(13), Pfaff(1), Torres 2(9), LeMahieu(8); RLSP- Encarnacion,

 Koch 2, Garcia, Markakis 2, Pfaff, Stanton, Urshela 3, Kratz;  


 Miami Palms                 IP   H  R  ER BB SO    ERA

 Kragh(W 2-1)                7.0  9  3  3  0  3    3.09  

 Allen(H,4)                  1.0  2  0  0  0  0    4.70  

 Martin(S, 12)               1.0  1  0  0  0  0    1.38  

 

 New York Yankees            IP   H  R  ER BB SO    ERA

 Garcia(L 0-1)               3.0  6  4  4  3  4   12.00 

 Kahnle                      2.0  4  1  1  0  2    3.00  

 Ottavino                    1.0  3  1  1  1  0    4.50  

 Green                       2.0  0  0  0  0  3    3.00  

 Chapman                     1.0  0  0  0  0  0    0.00  

 

 Pitches-strikes- Kragh 72-49, Allen 19-9, Martin 10-7, Garcia 72-39, Kahnle 21-16,

 Ottavino 20-12, Green 26-18, Chapman 9-5; Batters faced- Kragh 30, Allen 5, Martin 4,

 Garcia 18, Kahnle 10, Ottavino 7, Green 6, Chapman 3; 


 Temp - 70, Sky - Mostly Cloudy, Wind - SW 12MPH 

 

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