Anthony Rizzo continued to deliver offensively with a three-run home run to cap a four-run third inning that lifted the host New York Yankees to a 5-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday afternoon.

The Yankees have won the first two games of the three-game series and are 3-1 over their past four games overall.

Anthony Volpe drew a walk to open the third against Casey Mize (1-1), and Juan Soto singled before Aaron Judge doubled to score Volpe. Mize retired Alex Verdugo on a groundout and struck out Giancarlo Stanton before Rizzo homered deep into the right field bleachers on a 1-1 fastball.

Rizzo finished 2-for-4 and has hit .333 (15-for-45) with five homers and 12 RBIs in his past 12 games dating back to April 23. He hit just .227 with one homer and eight RBIs in 88 at-bats over his first 23 games of the season.

Stanton had an RBI single in the first. Judge had two hits before he was ejected by plate umpire Ryan Blakney for arguing a called third strike in the seventh inning. It was the first ejection for Judge in 870 big-league games.

Clarke Schmidt (3-1) earned the win after allowing three runs on four hits over five innings, with no walks and seven strikeouts. The seven strikeouts tied a season high for Schmidt.

A trio of relievers combined to blank the Tigers on three hits over the final four innings. Clay Holmes earned his 11th save by striking out two while getting the final four outs. Holmes has allowed zero earned runs across 16 1/3 innings to start the season.

Riley Greene hit a homer leading off the game for the Tigers, who scored twice in the fourth thanks in part to Matt Vierling's RBI triple. Vierling scored on Colt Keith's sacrifice fly. Vierling and Wenceel Perez had two hits apiece.

Mize gave up five runs on nine hits and one walk while striking out six over 5 1/3 innings.

--Field Level Media