NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Decide launched his forty first residence run, including to his main league-leading whole, and the New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-3 on Saturday.
“We’re watching greatness. So that you attempt to not take that without any consideration,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone stated. “Attempt to respect from time to time what we now have.”
Anthony Volpe and No. 9 batter Trent Grisham additionally hit two-run pictures off José Berríos to assist Carlos Rodón (12-7) win his third consecutive begin after going 0-5 in his earlier six.
Volpe and Austin Wells every had an RBI single for the Yankees, who started the day tied with Baltimore atop the AL East after their five-game profitable streak was snapped Friday evening within the sequence opener.
New York entered having misplaced 16 of twenty-two residence video games for the primary time since 1917.
Benched for not working onerous out of the batter’s field Friday on a single off the wall, Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres was again within the lineup as Boone promised. Torres went 1 for 4 with a single and a stroll. He hustled into second base to beat a tag with a headfirst slide, and scored on Volpe’s residence run that made it 6-1 within the fifth inning.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a solo homer within the first for last-place Toronto and completed a triple shy of the cycle. He’s batting .525 with 9 residence runs throughout a season-best 16-game hitting streak and has 5 homers in 12 video games in opposition to the Yankees this season.
Juan Soto singled on a 3-0 pitch within the first and Decide despatched a 426-foot drive into the Blue Jays’ bullpen in left-center, giving him a serious league-high 103 RBIs.
“He is one of the best hitter within the recreation,” Rodón stated. “It is a must-watch each at-bat.”
Decide additionally hit a two-run shot within the first inning Friday and has six residence runs in his final eight video games. He is hit 16 longballs within the first inning, matching Babe Ruth (1927) for many by a Yankees participant in a single season — two behind the massive league document set by Alex Rodríguez with Texas in 2001.
“It is surreal. Anytime you hear any of these greats which can be throughout this constructing, throughout this stadium, it is virtually sort of make imagine among the stuff they did,” Decide stated. “So to be talked about in any kind of class, sentence, something with these guys, it is fairly an honor.”
Earlier than the sport, Toronto supervisor John Schneider referred to as Decide’s astounding numbers “comical” and stated it was “tempting” to easily stroll him each time up. So with two outs and no one aboard within the second, and his staff down 4-1, Schneider did stroll the massive slugger deliberately — drawing boos from the gang of 40,218.
Based on Main League Baseball, it was the primary time a hitter had been walked deliberately in that scenario within the first two innings of a recreation since 1972.
“I truthfully didn’t really feel like seeing him swing. That was sort of it,” Schneider stated. “He’s in a unique class I believe than anybody else within the league, the place he can simply flip the script of a recreation with one swing.”
Confronted with the identical scenario within the fourth, Toronto pitched to Decide and he struck out in opposition to Berríos (9-9).
After second baseman Spencer Horwitz flubbed a leadoff grounder within the second for an error, Grisham homered to make it 4-1.
Rodón struck out eight in 5 1/3 innings of three-hit ball, throwing 106 pitches on a 90-degree afternoon.
“Only a regular combine,” he stated. “Simply making an attempt to assault the zone.”
Alejandro Kirk looped the primary pitch from Jake Cousins for a two-run single, however the Yankees’ bullpen held from there. Clay Holmes struck out George Springer with the bases loaded for his twenty third save in 31 possibilities.
New York has scored a minimum of 5 runs in eight straight video games, its longest streak since September 2021.
“I be ok with actually each spot proper now,” Boone stated of his lineup. “The blokes are contributing.”
Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman, who began Friday, was ejected by plate umpire Laz Diaz in the course of the seventh for arguing balls and strikes from the bench.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Blue Jays: Springer was again within the lineup because the DH batting leadoff and went 0 for 4 with a stroll. He exited Friday after fouling a pitch off his left shin. … Kirk began behind the plate and batted cleanup after lacking the earlier two video games. He was hit on the left elbow by a 98 mph pitch Tuesday from Baltimore ace Corbin Burnes. Springer wore a shin guard and Kirk an elbow pad.
Yankees: 1B Anthony Rizzo (damaged proper forearm) has began swinging a bat. INF Jon Berti (left calf pressure) is working at over 80%. There’s nonetheless no timetable for both participant to return, Boone stated, however Berti is nearer than Rizzo. … RHP Ian Hamilton (proper lat pressure) is scheduled to throw a high-intensity bullpen Tuesday. … Decide was the DH as Giancarlo Stanton was rested.
UP NEXT
Yankees ace Gerrit Cole (3-2, 5.40 ERA) returns to the rotation within the sequence finale Sunday after lacking a flip in Philadelphia due to physique fatigue. Rookie RHP Yariel Rodríguez (1-4, 4.31) makes his eleventh main league begin for Toronto.
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