Stanton homers, Volpe delivers tiebreaking single as Yankees top Astros
NEW YORK — Anthony Volpe hit a tiebreaking RBI single within the sixth inning, serving to the New York Yankees to a 4-3 win over the Houston Astros on Thursday night time in a rematch of final season’s American League Championship Series.
Giancarlo Stanton and Billy McKinney hit back-to-back homers within the first inning for the Yankees, who beat the Astros at dwelling for the primary time since June 26, 2022. Houston accomplished its four-game ALCS sweep of New York with a pair of wins within the Bronx.
Thursday’s win was the second straight for the Yankees, who beat the Tampa Bay Rays an evening earlier. New York posted consecutive wins over opponents with profitable information for the primary time since beating the Baltimore Orioles on July 3-4.
Michael King (3-4), the third of 5 New York pitchers, earned the win with 1 2/3 innings of one-hit ball. Clay Holmes gave up a pair of singles within the ninth, however acquired Jose Altuve to hit right into a game-ending force-out to earn his fifteenth save.
Kendall Graveman (3-5) took the loss.
Jake Meyers and Martin Maldonado every had an RBI within the second for the Astros, who tied the rating on Kyle Tucker’s homer main off the sixth towards Wandy Peralta. It was the primary extra-base hit the left-handed Peralta has surrendered towards a left-handed hitter this season.
Maldonado completed with three hits out of the No. 9 spot within the lineup for the sixth time in his six seasons with the Astros.
Yankees starter Clarke Schmidt gave up two runs in 5 innings.
Cristian Javier, who began a mixed no-hitter towards the Yankees on June 25, 2022, and restricted New York to at least one hit over 5 1/3 innings in Game 3 of the ALCS, was charged with three runs over 4 2/3 innings on Thursday.
NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
Justin Verlander rejoined his former teammates Thursday _ two days after he was traded again to Houston by the rebuilding Mets and fewer than 9 months after he helped the Astros win the World Series.
“It feels a little weird because it hasn’t been that long, so it feels like you don’t miss a beat and you’re right back in the locker room,” Verlander mentioned earlier than the sport. “But on the other hand, there’s this whole segment that happened. So here I am, still staying in my apartment in New York.”
Verlander is slated to make the primary begin of his second stint with the Astros on Saturday, which suggests he’ll be making a 3rd straight begin in New York. He earned wins for the Mets at Yankee Stadium on July 25, and over the Nationals at Citi Field on Sunday, when he recorded his 250th profession victory.
“Well, he’ll get out of New York soon,” Astros supervisor Dusty Baker mentioned with amusing.
HARD HABIT TO BREAK
Altuve, one among three Astros gamers remaining from the 2017 crew that was embroiled in a sign-stealing scandal on its solution to the primary championship in franchise historical past, was booed prior to every of his 5 at-bats. An “Altuve cheats!” chant rang out within the fifth inning whereas a profane chant was heard within the seventh.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Astros: RHP Ronel Blanco was optioned to Triple-A Sugar Lake to make room on the energetic roster for Verlander.
Yankees: 1B Anthony Rizzo (post-concussion syndrome) was positioned on the 10-day injured record and IF/OF Oswaldo Cabrera was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Rizzo believes he’s experiencing the consequences of a pickoff play collision with the San Diego Padres’ Fernando Tatis Jr. on May 28. He has hit simply .172 with on homer in 169 at-bats for the reason that incident. Manager Aaron Boone mentioned Rizzo, who has been prescribed three dietary supplements designed to deal with concussions, is week to week.
UP NEXT
RHP Hunter Brown (7-7, 4.12 ERA) is slated to start out for the Astros on Friday towards struggling Yankees RHP Luis Severino (2-5, 7.49 ERA). This will likely be Brown’s first begin towards New York. Severino went 1-3 with an 11.22 ERA in 5 July begins.
