![]() It’s the first time this season Toronto has allowed its opponent to score double digit runs in consecutive games.Īlejandro Kirk hit his sixth home run in the sixth as the Blue Jays lost to the Yankees for the seventh time in 10 games this year. It was the second straight blowout defeat for the Blue Jays, who gave up six runs in the third inning Thursday in a 10-2 loss to Baltimore. LeMahieu had three hits and Rizzo reached base four times. Gallo, who had three RBI, added a two-run homer in the ninth off Casey Lawrence, Gallo’s ninth home run this season. He has homered six times in 13 games, including a game-ending drive against Tampa Bay on Thursday. Rizzo’s sixth career slam, a 435-foot drive, was his first slam for the Yankees and 17th home run this season. “That’s kind of the knockout blow right there,” Boone said. Gallo’s RBI double chased Trent Thornton, and Rizzo homered on a thigh-high curveball from Trevor Richards, causing catcher Gabriel Moreno to droop his head. LeMahieu hit the next pitch for a 5-1 lead. Stanton followed with his 14th homer this season and the 361st of his career, tying Joe DiMaggio. The way I take pitches is different, I guess.” It ended up being an inside joke in here. I went in a big slump of not getting hit for two or three weeks. ![]() “The last few weeks, I just needed to get hit. “When I get hit by pitches, I feel like it really locks me in more, just staying on the ball,” Rizzo said. New York set a season high for runs in an inning in the fifth, when Rizzo was hit by a pitch leading off. Stripling (3-2) led 1-0 in the fourth, extending his shutout streak to 16 2/3 innings, before Gleyber Torres hit an RBI double and scored on Kyle Higashioka’s grounder. New York, which outhit Toronto 14-5, has won Mongomery’s past five starts. “That’s a tough lineup for him to go through with all those really good right-handed hitters,” Boone said. Montgomery (3-1) allowed two runs and three hits in six innings to improve to 3-0 in his last five outings. New York has 17 homers in its past six games. Giancarlo Stanton, DJ LeMahieu, and Joey Gallo also homered for the Yankees, who lead the major leagues with 105 home runs and have allowed 49, one more than the big league-low total of San Francisco entering Friday. “You just want to keep stacking up as many victories as you can.” “It’s not something that you want to get too caught up in here in the middle of June,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. The Yankees opened an 11-game lead over second-place Toronto in the AL East. “We’re just having the memory of a goldfish.” “It’s almost like we’re losing every day, we’re coming out here so hungry,” left-hander Jordan Montgomery said. New York has won 15 of its last 16 and at 48-16 is off to its best start since 1998. TORONTO - Anthony Rizzo capped the Yankees’ eight-run fifth inning with a grand slam off the facing of the third deck in right, and New York extended its winning streak to eight with a 12-3 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night. Online stream: MLB.Rizzo slam in 8-run 5th, Yanks rout Jays 12-3 for 8th in row Radio broadcast: WCNN 680/93.7 (Braves broadcast) For more on Brito, check out Marcus’ write-up of him as his pick for the 10th-best prospect in the Yankees’ system.Ĭome join us in the game thread for double the Yankees’ baseball action! Jhony Brito will take the mound for the Yankees in that game, and will face off against a very strong Blue Jays lineup. Top prospect Anthony Volpe will be in the leadoff spot and manning shortstop. The lineup for the Blue Jays game features only one definite major league in Josh Donaldson, but there are some interesting prospects to keep an eye on in that game. He will face off against a couple major leaguers in Atlanta’s lineup (and just for fun, Alex Rodriguez’s nephew, Joe Dunand). With Frankie Montas out to start the season, there is an opening in the Yankees’ rotation, and Schmidt is set to battle for that spot. On the mound in that game will be Clarke Schmidt. The new Yankees captain will see his first action as part of a lineup that also includes Gleyber Torres, Aaron Hicks, Jose Trevino, and Oswald Peraza. Some of the Yankees will stay at the friendly confines of GMS Field to take on the Braves, while others will be headed on the road to take on the Blue Jays.Īs is typical, the home spring training game features a bit of a stronger lineup, including the spring debut of the one and only Aaron Judge. Today, the Yankees are set to play their first split-squad game day. ![]() Yesterday, the Yankees kicked off their 2023 spring training schedule, and today we tick another milestone on the road to the regular season.
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