Cleveland Guardians vs New York Yankees Box Score on Aug 16, 2019

Masahiro Tanaka pitched effectively into the seventh inning and the New York Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians 3-2 Friday night at Yankee Stadium.

The Yankees rebounded nicely from Thursday's 19-5 pummeling and won for the 15th time in their past 18 games. New York also improved to 10-1 in its last 11 home games.

Tanaka (9-6) delivered a second straight sterling outing, following up eight-plus innings of three-hit ball in Toronto on Sunday with a similar outing. He allowed two runs on four hits in 6 1/3 innings, appearing to run out of gas in the seventh.

Tanaka struck out two, walked none and got 10 outs via groundouts.

Jose Ramirez had three of the hits off Tanaka with a homer in the second, a single in the fifth and a double in the seventh that knocked out the right-hander after he allowed a homer to Yasiel Puig.

Slumping Aaron Judge produced his first multi-hit game since Aug. 3 and scored a pair of runs. A night after going 0-for-5 with four strikeouts to extend his slide to 3-for-31, Judge roped a single to left in the first and a double to right in the fifth.

Judge scored New York's first run on a base hit by Gary Sanchez and the Yankees' third run when Puig bobbled Gio Urshela's single to right for an error.

Gleyber Torres added an RBI single for the Yankees, who improved to 8-10 when not hitting a homer.

Tommy Kahnle picked up Tanaka by getting two strikeouts to end the seventh. Aided by center fielder Brett Gardner's running catch on Francisco Lindor, Zack Britton pitched a scoreless eighth.

Aroldis Chapman worked around a leadoff walk and struck out two in the ninth to convert his 34th save in 39 chances.

The Indians fell to 45-19 since June 4 and lost for only the fourth time in their past 19 road games.

Cleveland rookie Aaron Civale (1-2) allowed three runs (two earned) on eight hits in six innings. He struck out four and walked two.

--Field Level Media