The Tigers take down the Yankees 6-2 in game one of this three-game set

Detroit—It was a cold, windy, snowy day in Detroit. At first pitch, it was 38 degrees, and the weather forecast predicted a chance of snow. That didn't stop the Yankees and Tigers from playing baseball. Carlos Rodon took the ball for the Yankees, and Casey Mize got the ball for the Tigers. 

Ben Rice worked a leadoff walk for the Yankees in the top of the 1st inning, and a couple of batters later, Paul Goldschmidt picked up an infield single, but both runners were stranded. 

Carlos Rodon worked a nice, easy 1-2-3 bottom of the 1st inning on eight pitches and picked up a strikeout.

Anthony Volpe, Austin Wells, and Trent Grisham went down in order in the top of the 2nd inning for the Yankees. 

Carlos Rodon worked another 1-2-3 inning in the bottom of the 2nd inning and picked up two more strikeouts. 

Ben Rice legged out a one-out triple into the right-center gap in the top of the 3rd inning, then got picked off at third base with Aaron Judge at the plate. 

“Forget the fact that Judge was at the plate there.” Manager Aaron Boone said. “It's just one of the situations where we can't be that aggressive and we know their catcher Roggers likes to throw behind runners like that.” 

Carlos Rodon walked the eight and nine hitters in the bottom of the 3rd on some questionable calls from the home plate umpire, which led to disaster for the Yankees. With two outs, Andy Ibanez launched a 3-run home run to left field to give the Tigers a 3-0 lead.

“The walks to the eight and nine hitters came back to bite me there.” Rodon said, “I have to go attack the bottom half of the order there. I just need to be better at getting a head and attacking the strike zone.” 

It started snowing in the top of the 4th inning, which did not help the Yankees offensively as they went down in order.

Carlos Rodon had a nice bounce-back in the bottom of the 4th inning, retiring the Tigers in order and picking up his sixth strikeout of the game. 

Aaron Judge picked up a two-out RBI single to cut the Tigers lead to 3-1 in the top of the 5th inning.

Rodon looked like he was going to have an easy first out in the bottom of the 5th inning, but Oswaldo Cabrera made a costly error to allow the leadoff man to reach base, and then Rodon walked the next hitter. Both those runners would come across to score on a 2-run single by Justyn-Henry Malloy to make it a 5-1 Tigers lead. 

Casey Mize retired Paul Goldschmidt, Jazz Chisholm Jr., and Anthony Volpe in order in the top of the 6th inning. 

Carlos Rodon picked up his eighth strikeout of the game in the bottom of the 6th inning. He then gave a single to Javier Baez but immediately picked him off to end the inning. 

Austin Wells picked up a lead-off single in the top of the 7th inning but was erased on an unfortunate double play from Oswald Cabrera that he absolutely smoked just right back to the pitcher. 

At 96 pitches, Rodon returned to pitch the 7th inning, with the Yankees bullpen a little taxed after yesterday's 11-inning loss to the Pirates. Rodon immediately gave up a leadoff single. Adam Ottavino came in to replace him; he walked two out of the three hitters he faced. Tim Hill replaced Ottavino with the bases loaded and one out and gave up an RBI ground out to former Yankee Trey Sweeney to make it a 6-1 Tigers lead. 

Rodons final line today was six-plus innings pitched, four hits, five earned runs, three walks, and eight strikeouts on 103 pitches. Rodon stuff was solid today. He just, unfortunately got squeezed by the ump a little bit in that 3rd inning, and it came back to bite him.

“The line isn't going to show it.” Manager Aaron Boone said on Rodon. “If we roll that out there every time we're going to be in a good spot, I thought he did a lot of really good things, I thought he was in control of the game.

In the top of the 8th inning, Goldschmidt and Cody Bellinger picked up two-out singles. Jazz then hit an easy groundball to second base that looked like it would end the inning, but a throwing error by Tigers second basemen Colt Kieth allowed a run to score and cut the Tigers lead to 6-2. 

Hill came back out to pitch the bottom of the 8th and worked around a one-out single to work a scoreless inning. 

Former Yankee Tommy Kahnle came into pitch in the top of the 9th and set the Yankees down in order to end this one 6-2 for the Tigers' fourth win in a row. 

The Yankees will try to bounce back tomorrow against last year's AL Cy Young winner, Tarik Skubal for the Tigers and Carlos Carrasco for the Yankees. The first pitch will be at 1:10 p.m. ET on the YES Network.