With the Yankees nonetheless preventing for a division title, they confronted a tricky take a look at on Friday evening within the type of Orioles ace Trevor Rogers.
The Bombers handed with flying colours, as Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Choose mixed for 3 dwelling runs off the left-hander, considered one of baseball’s finest pitchers this season, in an 8-4 win.
With two video games left within the common season, the victory stored the Yankees tied with the Blue Jays atop the American League East, as Toronto beat the Rays in Canada on Friday. The Jays maintain the tiebreaker over the Yankees due to their 8-5 head-to-head report, although.
The Yankees, who can fall again on having dwelling area benefit within the Wild Card spherical, have their model of the Bash Brothers to thank for Friday’s win, as Stanton smashed his first dwelling run of the evening, a two-run shot, over Yankee Stadium’s brief proper area porch within the first inning. He adopted with one other two-run homer – a 451-foot no-doubter to the left area terrace – off Rogers within the third inning.
Choose had already hit a two-run dinger of his personal earlier within the third, a speedy response to Jordan Westburg’s three-run homer off Will Warren within the prime of the inning.
Rogers, the proprietor of a 1.81 ERA , had solely surrendered three dwelling runs over his first 106.2 innings this season. But Stanton and Choose tagged him for 3 longballs over simply 13 batters on Friday evening.
The Yankees are actually 51-7 when the 2 homer in the identical recreation. That features the postseason.
Stanton, in the meantime, has 452 dwelling runs for his profession after hitting his twenty second and twenty third jacks of the 12 months. He’s tied with Pink Sox legend Carl Yastrzemski for fortieth place on the all-time dwelling run listing.
Whereas the Yankees’ largest sluggers teed off on Friday, a number of of their pitchers didn’t make issues straightforward.
Warren allowed one other homer within the sixth when Tyler O’Neill smacked a bases-empty blast off the right-hander. That ended Warren’s evening, in addition to his rookie season. He completed the 12 months with a 4.44 ERA, 171 strikeouts and 162.1 innings over 33 begins.
With Warren out of the sport, Mark Leiter Jr. took over, solely to seek out himself in a bases-loaded jam due to a Paul Goldschmidt error and a pair of walks. Luckily for the Yankees, Tim Hill cleaned up the mess with an inning-ending groundout earlier than Austin Wells added an insurance coverage run with a single within the backside of the sixth.
The Yankees scored once more within the seventh on a Stanton groundout, bringing his RBI whole to 5 on the evening. The DH had been struggling over his earlier 23 video games, hitting simply .158 with a .577 OPS, however he in his lethal postseason kind on Friday with the playoffs simply days away.
