The Yankees responded with three runs in the bottom half of the inning, and Chase Headley’s two-run homer gave NY a 7-4 lead.
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Rookie first baseman Tyler Austin, who turned 25 Tuesday, gave the Yankees a 3-2 lead in the seventh with a two-run homer off Toronto ace Aaron Sanchez, pretty much dominant to that point. Yankees rookie RF Aaron Judge is 4-for-43 with 28 strikeouts in the last 14 games.2. And then the game ended on a smash to left by first baseman Justin Smoak that looked to have a chance to get out, or at least go off the wall.
Detroit is now one game back of the second wild card spot after Baltimore beat Tampa Bay 11-2.
The Canadian men beat El Salvador 3-1 in Vancouver, but Honduras tied with Mexico, setting up Canada for a third place finisih in Group A of CONCACAF qualifying.
Jason Grilli (5-5) allowed a two-run homer to Chase Headley.
New York Yankees’ Chase Headley celebrates hitting a two-run home run with Eric Young Jr.
CARDINALS 9, PIRATES 7: Matt Carpenter, Randal Grichuk and Jhonny Peralta all homered off closer Tony Watson with two outs in the ninth inning, helping St. Louis to rally at Pittsburgh.
Combined with the Yankees’ dramatic win against the Blue Jays in NY, the O’s closed to within one game of the AL East lead. Morales also hit a two-run shot in the first. Stroman struck out only three against NY on April 14 but scattered two runs and three hits across eight innings to earn a win.Mitchell was recalled with the expanded rosters and is getting a chance in the rotation spot vacated by Chad Green (elbow), though manager Joe Girardi indicated that several pitchers could get a long look on Wednesday. Gardner ran back, jumped and corralled the ball at the top of the padding. Melvin Upton then singled to bring home Josh Donaldson and cut the deficit to one, but Blake Parker entered for Dellin Betances and struck out Kevin Pillar before forcing Justin Smoak to fly out for the final out of the game. His only other homer came on August 13 in his first major league at-bat.
16-9 Of the eight teams still vying for two AL wild card spots, the Royals will finish strongest but it won’t be enough. A wild pitch moved the runners to second and third, then Edwin Encarnacion capped a 10-pitch at-bat with an infield single, cutting the lead to two runs while putting runners at the corners. With his next home run, he will join Hornsby, Johnson and Sandberg as only the fourth second baseman in Major League Baseball history to hit at least 40 home runs in a season (no second baseman has ever done it twice in their career).
GIANTS 3, ROCKIES 2: Eduardo Nunez had two RBI for San Francisco in a win at Denver.
Odorizzi (9-6) lost for the first time in 10 starts since the All-Star break, giving up seven runs, six hits and three walks over four innings. He got Gerardo Parra to hit into a double play to end the game.
Wily Peralta (6-9) gave up four runs and six hits in 7 2/3 innings, leaving after Anthony Rizzos second home run of the game, a two-run drive.
“I thought for the most part I had control over the game pretty much all night”, said Sanchez.
And Joey Wendle hit a go-ahead single during a three-run eighth inning and the Oakland Athletics rallied to beat the Los Angeles Angels 3-2.
BREWERS 12, CUBS 5: Jonathan Villar homered to start a five-run first inning against Jason Hammel, and Milwaukee cooled off Chicago. Finally, Ryne Sandberg belted a National League-leading 40 in 1990 for the Chicago Cubs. “I think we have the group of guys here that’s capable of doing that”.
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Encarnacion was responsible for some early fireworks, too, hitting his 37th home run of the season, a solo shot, in the top of the first inning.
