From Bryan Hoch:
It was during the early afternoon hours on Saturday that Aaron Judge and Juan Soto test drove a handshake, running through the motions of their home-run celebration within the clubhouse walls. The Yankees’ captain nodded toward his teammate and remarked: “We’re going to do this a couple of times today.”
The superstars followed through on that promise, with Judge authoring more long ball history to help the Yankees to their first series victory in a month. Behind Judge’s Major League-leading 34th homer, New York moved into a virtual tie with the Orioles atop the American League East with a 6-1 victory at Camden Yards.
“Just having a little bit of fun,” Judge said. “When he’s locked in like that and seeing so many good pitches, it’s fun to hit behind him and see what he does. It’s just impressive at-bat after at-bat.”
The Yankees hadn’t won a series since June 10-13 at Kansas City, faring 0-7-1 over that span. Saturday marked the club’s first time winning consecutive games since that Royals series.
How in the WORLD have they remained competitive without winning consecutive games for a month? I guess it helps when the team ahead of you also slumps (the downside is that the Red Sox are now only 4.5 games back of both teams).
Excellent start by Gil. There is now a reason to watch the Yankees twice every five games, so that’s something! I think Cashman might want to think about still acquiring a starter, but I understand that there really isn’t one available. Do you trade, say, a Spencer Jones if that’s what it takes to get Garrett Crochet? Crochet could pitch out of the bullpen until playoff time, then he could be their #3 starter, and then be their #3 starter next season. It makes some sense.
Nice to see Wells perform well after Trevy went on the IL. Of course, we all know Rodon will fuck it up on Sunday, but, well, still nice to win this one.
Gil gets the featured image, lifting his fist in the sky after striking out his seventh batter of the game to close out the sixth inning. Gil wasn’t even perfect in this game, which made his dominance all the more impressive to me, honestly.
“(the downside is that the Red Sox are now only 4.5 games back of both teams)”
And here I thought the downside was that if they HADN’T gone on this insane slide, they’d still have the best record in the league and they’d be 12 games up on the 2nd place team in their division.
Boone so creative. Wells is OPSing 921 over last 28 days, why not stick him in cleanup? Todays game 11:30 Roku channel which should be available thru any streaming device or you can download the App.
B Rice (L) 1B
J Soto (L) RF
A Judge (R) DH
A Verdugo (L) LF
G Torres (R) 2B
A Wells (L) C
A Volpe (R) SS
T Grisham (L) CF
O Cabrera (S) 3B