Judge homers twice, Yankees overcome six-run deficit to beat Rays
NEW YORK — Aaron Judge hit a pair of two-run homers, Anthony Volpe sparked the Yankees by breaking Joe DiMaggio’s workforce document for consecutive stolen bases in the beginning of a profession and New York overcame a six-run deficit for a 9-8 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday.
Rays ace Shane McClanahan failed to carry a 6-0 fifth-inning lead, six days after Yankees ace Gerrit Cole squandered a 6-0 fifth-inning benefit in an 8-7, 10-inning loss at Tampa Bay.
In a matchup of All-Star starters, Yandy Diaz hit his first profession grand slam in a five-run fifth towards Nestor Cortes, the beginning of a stretch by which 22 of 37 batters reached in a 2 1/2-inning span.
Judge, carrying pink spikes for Mother’s Day weekend, discovered his stroke following an injured listing stint brought on by a sore hip. His homers have been his first since April 19 and gave him his twenty ninth profession multihomer recreation.
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Kyle Higashioka and Judge chased McClanahan with two-run homers within the backside of the fifth, the primary of consecutive innings by which the Yankees batted round.
Volpe reached on a bunt single to the left facet off Ryan Thompson (1-1) beginning the sixth, stole second and third, then sped house on the subsequent pitch when Thompson’s slider was means exterior and eluded catcher Francisco Mejia. Volpe is 13 for 13 in steal makes an attempt, another than DiMaggio from the beginning of his profession till he was caught at house by Boston on Sept. 25, 1939, as a part of a double-steal try with Lou Gehrig.
Gleyber Torres walked and Judge drove a slider 439 toes into the left-field second deck for his eighth homer this season and a 7-6 lead.
Orlando Cabrera, who entered as a pinch hitter within the fifth, added a two-run single towards Javy Guerra on a grounder to proper that simply eluded diving second baseman Taylor Walls.
Randy Arozarena hit a broken-bat two-run single within the seventh towards Clay Holmes after two batters reached off Ron Marinaccio.
Diaz stranded a runner at second within the eighth when he took a known as third strike from Holmes in a nine-pitch at-bat, and Wandy Peralta labored round a two-out stroll within the ninth, for his second save this season _ each in a 19-hour span. Brandon Lowe fouled off six 1-2 pitches earlier than hitting a game-ending flyout.
Jimmy Cordero (3-1) pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings for the win. New York is 3-3 towards the foremost league-leading Rays and trails by eight video games within the AL East.
McClanahan entered 7-0 with a 1.76 ERA and had not allowed greater than two runs in his first eight begins. He allowed 4 runs, 4 hits and 4 walks in four-plus innings.
Cortes gave up six runs and 7 hits in 4 1/3 innings and has allowed 15 runs in his final three begins as his ERA ballooned to five.53. He wore inexperienced cleats with the identify and film of Tam Major, a horse Cortes owns.
REPLAY
Tampa Bay obtained a run within the fifth on Arozarena’s two-out infield hit when the preliminary out name by first base umpire Mike Muchlinski was reversed in a video assessment.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: LHP Carlos Rodon (strained left forearm) was awaiting a go-ahead to begin throwing following an injection of painkiller to his again Tuesday. … 3B Josh Donaldson (strained proper hamstring) may resume a minor league rehabilitation project subsequent week.
UP NEXT
RHP Clarke Schmidt (1-3) begins Sunday for New York and RHP Zack Eflin (4-1) for the Rays.
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