Chad Green Makes Major League Debut With D'backs

BY ESPN

The Arizona offense finally came alive, and Jake Lamb led the way. The young third baseman broke open the game with a three-run home run and the Diamondbacks snapped a five-game losing streak with a 12-2 rout of the New York Yankees on Monday night.

Lamb was a triple shy of the cycle, and Arizona had 15 hits after scoring just six runs in losing four straight at home to San Francisco.

"People say it a lot but I think that hitting is a little contagious," Lamb said. "Just to get a game like this, it's kind of like you can take a deep breath and go, `OK, we can hit."

Paul Goldschmidt, 1 for 14 in the Giants series, also homered off Chad Green (0-1) in the right-hander's major league debut. Green is an Effingham High School graduate.  The Diamondbacks had lost seven straight at home.

Robbie Ray (2-2) allowed two runs on six hits in seven innings, his longest outing of the season, and got his first career RBI.

"That's as good as I've ever seen him," Arizona manager Chip Hale said, "in the strike zone, going after guys. He was using his breaking ball, his changeup, but he was really beating them with his fastball. I could hear him grunting out there."

Jacoby Ellsbury tripled and scored for the Yankees, who began a seven-game trip after a 7-3 homestand.

"There is never a good time to have a game like this," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "I wasn't sure what we were going to get from Greenie. I thought he did a decent job."

Green went four innings plus two batters, giving up six runs -- four earned -- on eight hits.

"It was an awesome experience but I left some balls up in the zone and they did some damage with it," he said. "Overall I made a couple of mistakes I am not happy with. It was OK."

First baseman Mark Teixeira dropped the throw from Green on Michael Bourn's bunt for an error that began Arizona's five-run fifth. Goldschmidt walked and, in an eight-pitch at-bat, Lamb hit one over the swimming pool beyond the right field fence for his fifth homer of the season.

"Especially in that situation, a guy on second, I was trying to get a base hit," Lamb said. "Just because we've been struggling a little bit, you don't want to do too much in that situation. I got the barrel on it and the ball flew."

New York tied it 2-2 when Ellsbury tripled to start the fifth and scored when shortstop Nick Ahmed's relay throw careened off Ellsbury's helmet and into the stands.

The Yankees scored a run on three straight hits to start the fourth and could have had more but Bourn, who joined the Diamondbacks on Sunday, made a leaping grab of Aaron Hicks' drive at the wall in center. The inning ended when Green struck out with the bases loaded.

Green never batted in his minor league career.

Monday, May 16 Scoreboard

Cleveland 15, Cincinnati 6

Boston at  Kansas City, postponed

Miami 5, Philadelphia 3

Pittsburgh 8, Atlanta 5

Tampa Bay 13, Toronto 2

Detroit 10, Minnesota 8

Arizona 12,  New York Yankees 2

Oakland 3, Texas 1

Los Angeles Angels 7, Los Angeles Dodgers 6

Tuesday, May 17 Schedule (All Times Central)

Cincinnati at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

Seattle at Baltimore, 6:05 p.m.

Miami at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Toronto, 6:07 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 6:10 p.m.

Washington at New York, 6:10 p.m.

Houston at Chicago, 7:10 p.m.

Chicago at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m.

Boston at Kansas City, 7:15 p.m.

Colorado at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m.

New York at Arizona, 8:40 p.m.

Texas at Oakland, 9:05 p.m.

Los Angeles at Los Angeles, 9:10 p.m.

San Francisco at San Diego, 9:10 p.m.