![]() He went 2-4 with an 8.10 ERA in the eight starts prior to his injury.īo Bichette hit an RBI single off Taillon in the first and scored on Corey Dickerson’s RBI double off King in the third, but Toronto couldn’t hold on. Ryu was activated off the 10-day injured list before the game after being out since Sept. “He did what we want him to do.”Īdam Cimber came on and gave up Judge’s go-ahead sacrifice fly, making it 3-2. Ryu allowed three runs and six hits in 4 1/3 innings, leaving after Rizzo’s tying single. King (1-4) gave up one run in 2 2/3 innings for the second victory of his three-year big league career.Ĭlay Holmes pitched around a pair of walks in the sixth, Chad Green and Luis Severino each worked one perfect inning and Wandy Perlata finished. Taillon allowed one run and one hit in 2 1/3 innings. “It was a quick decision for me to get him out of there.” “I could tell right away that he had re-aggaravated it,” Boone said of Taillon. He was replaced by right-hander Michael King. Taillon motioned for an athletic trainer to come out of the dugout, then walked off following a brief discussion. “I felt like it was going to be OK,” Boone said, “but to see him go out and have immediate success and hit the ball like he did, that was certainly encouraging.”Īctivated off the injured list Monday after missing 19 games because of a right ankle injury, Taillon left one out into the third after aggravating the same injury. He went 2 for 2 with two walks and a sacrifice fly. Judge started in right field after dislocating his left pinky sliding into second base in Sunday night’s win at Boston. Urshela hit his 14th homer off Anthony Castro in the ninth. Judge’s solo homer off left-hander Hyun Jin Ryu (13-10) in the third gave the Yankees at least one home run in 19 consecutive games, extending their season-high streak. “That ball was almost in the dirt, and he went and hit it out.” “I don’t know how you can hit a ball like that,” Montoyo said. It was a bit in off the plate but, with that mentality, sometimes you’ll get to those.”īlue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo said he found Stanton’s homer hard to believe even after watching a replay. “I just had to make sure I stayed inside of it and tried to scoop it. “He threw me a couple that were in the vicinity,” Stanton said. It’s the lowest pitch he’s homered on in his career. Stanton’s homer came on an 84 mph changeup that crossed the plate 1.26 feet off the ground. “We just kind of shake our heads sometimes.” “Like I say all the time, he’s a unicorn,” Boone said of Stanton. ![]() He became the seventh Yankees player with a pair of four-game homer streaks in a season after Babe Ruth (1930), Lou Gehrig (’31), Joe DiMaggio (’37), Yogi Berra (’56), Roger Maris (’61) and Alex Rodriguez (’07). ![]() It’s also the most RBIs in any four game span for Stanton in his 12-year career. Stanton became the first Yankees player with 13 or more RBIs in a four-game span in September since Paul O’Neill in 1999. 304 with 10 home runs and 25 RBI in 92 at bats this month. “We’re playing for keeps, we’re playing for a lot, and I think G is embodying that right now,” manager Aaron Boone said. The homer was the 35th for Stanton, who leads the Yankees with 96 RBIs. Stanton homered for the fourth straight game when he connected off right-hander Trevor Richards with two out in the seventh, driving the ball into the second deck in left. Toronto (87-70) dropped three games behind the Yankees but remains a game behind Boston for the second wild card. The Yankees took another injury hit when Jameson Taillon reinjured an ankle and left in the third inning. Gio Urshela added a solo homer and Anthony Rizzo had a pair of hits and drove in a run as New York (90-67) won its seventh straight and moved two games in front of Boston (88-69) in the wild card race with five games left. ![]() TORONTO (AP) - Giancarlo Stanton hit a three-run home run, Aaron Judge homered and drove in two runs and the New York Yankees extended their lead atop the AL wild card standings by beating the Toronto Blue Jays 7-2 Tuesday night.
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