Judges 2 HRs key Yankees rebound from 6-game losing streak against Rays
NEW YORK – With the Yankees With the team approaching a quarter of the campaign, Aaron Boone called their performance “incomplete,” noting that there was still a lot to travel. They do, however, display one encouraging characteristic: a gritty determination to fight back and bounce back from early deficits.
Aaron Judge homers twice Hitting and hitting four runs, the Yankees surged from a six-point deficit Saturday afternoon to capture their ninth comeback victory of the season with a 9-8 victory over the Rays at Yankees Stadium. Six of the Bombers’ last eight wins have come from behind.
Nestor Cortes at He gave up six runs in 4 1/3 innings, including a Yandy Díaz slam in the fifth. That’s when the Yankees’ bat came into play, hitting a four-game winning streak against Rays ace Shane McClanahan. Kyle Higashioka hit a two-run homer and Judge reached the right-field spot for his seventh blast of the year, both with the help of McClanahan, who was a walkout in the fifth.
Anthony Volpe’s Elite Wheels in 6th A five-inning game was sparked. The rookie hit a bunt single, stole a second and third, and ran home in the wild. Volpe was the first to steal his first 15 career base without getting caught Yankees player. Judge’s second homer of the day came from Ryan Thompson, and Oswaldo Cabrera hit a two-run off Javy Guerra.
Tampa Bay keeps the game close, Randy Aroza Renner scored a two-run single in the seventh over Clay Holmes.
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