Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Anthony Rizzo homered and the New York Yankees pulled away for a 10-4 win over the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night in Minneapolis.
DJ LeMahieu, Jose Trevino and Joey Gallo added one RBI apiece for the Yankees, who won their seventh game in a row. The Yankees have outscored opponents 48-11 during the streak.
Jorge Polanco finished 4-for-5 with a double, a homer and two RBIs to lead the Twins.
Yankees left-hander Lucas Luetge (2-2) earned the win with 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief. Luetge replaced starter Jameson Taillon, who gave up four runs on nine hits in four-plus innings. Taillon struck out three and walked one.
Twins right-hander Cole Sands (0-2) was battered in his second career start. He surrendered four runs on eight hits in 3 2/3 innings. He walked two and struck out three.
New York wasted little time grabbing a 3-0 lead in the top of the first. Judge crushed a 431-foot, two-run shot to center field for his 22nd homer, which leads the majors. Stanton followed two batters later with a solo shot, his 12th, which traveled 445 feet to left field.
The Twins cut the deficit to 3-1 in the bottom of the first on a sacrifice fly by Max Kepler.
In the third, Minnesota pulled within 3-2. Polanco hit a double to deep right field to drive in Luis Arraez, who had reached on a one-out single.
Judge picked up his third RBI on a single to left field in the fourth, driving in Gallo.
The Twins once again inched within one run of the lead in the bottom of the frame. Jermaine Palacios hit a sacrifice fly to center to score Gio Urshela.
New York made it 5-3 when LeMahieu drew a bases-loaded walk in the fifth.
Polanco hit a leadoff homer in the bottom of the fifth to trim the Yankees' lead to 5-4.
Rizzo delivered a three-run homer in the seventh to give the Yankees an 8-4 advantage. LeMahieu had singled and advanced to second base on a wild pitch, Judge drew an intentional walk and Rizzo capitalized on a 3-1 pitch by pulling it 410 feet for his 14th homer.
Trevino and Gallo each added RBI singles in the eighth to make it a six-run game.
--Field Level Media
NY Yankees | Minnesota | |
Jameson Taillon | Player | Cole Sands |
No Decision | W/L | Loss |
4.0 | IP | 3.2 |
3 | Strikeouts | 3 |
9 | Hits | 8 |
9.00 | ERA | 9.82 |
NY Yankees | Minnesota | |
DJ LeMahieu | Player | Jorge Polanco |
3 | Hits | 4 |
1 | RBI | 2 |
0 | HR | 1 |
3 | TB | 8 |
.750 | Avg | .800 |
Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
NY Yankees | 14 | 3 | 23 | .341 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 3 |
Minnesota | 12 | 1 | 17 | .333 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |