After using late inning rallies later in the week to sweep a streak from the Blue Jays, the Yankees returned home on Friday running out of magic. They came back from an early deficit, but could not recover later in the game and fell back 5-3 against the athletics in the Bronx.
In the first full-capacity game at Yankee Stadium since 2019, the 24,037 spectators tried that season – the stands were full but plenty of seats remained open elsewhere – to encourage the Yankees (36-33) to make another comeback in the final innings. But AL West’s leading A’s (44-27) held onto the lead they took in the sixth inning when Tony Kemp rappelled a triple homer from Wandy Peralta and Oakland snapped the Yankees’ three-game winning streak. </ P "We were in the lead, they hit a homer and I had a feeling we would come back one way or another," said DJ LeMahieu, who leveled the game 2-2 with two home runs in the third inning. “We just couldn't get a lot together. But I think in these situations our self-confidence grows as a group. ”
Former Yankees first-round pick James Kaprielian, who was traded to Oakland in 2017 as part of the Sonny Gray deal, limited the Yankees to three runs on three Hits over 5 ² / ₃ innings while striking seven.
Jameson Taillon countered by giving up two runs over 4 ² / ₃ innings in one impact attempt after a brutal start against the Phillies, but he settled for one Non-decision.
LeMahieu and Rougned Odor both homered in front of Kaprielian. Odors Explosion briefly brought the Yankees a 3-2 lead in fifth place. But Peralta was back with two strikes, two outs, and two men half an inning later when Kemp pounced on a slider that missed his intended position for the triple homer.
« You are missing your place in big league hitters and pay the price, « said Peralta through an interpreter.
Gleyber Torres and Giancarlo Stanton (in the sixth inning), Gary Sanchez (serenaded by the home fans in the seventh inning) and Gio Urshela (in the ninth) had every chance to end the game in one swing. But everyone was left empty when the homestand started in defeat.
At Taillon’s first start since the failure of the first inning last Saturday in Philadelphia when he couldn’t put down the batters and gave up four runs in a third of an inning he made another slip with two punches of the opening frame Friday. After two quick outs, the right-hander beat Matt Olson 2-0 before slipping over the plate. Olson tore it to the second deck in right field to give the A a 1-0 lead.
Oakland doubled their lead in the third inning with some hard contact when Elvis Andrus drilled a double and on Mark Canha’s single scored.
But the Yankees wiped away the residue in the lower third. After Kaprielian knocked out the first eight Yankees in turn – including four strikeouts – he went Brett Gardner on four pitches. LeMahieu then took the Yankees’ first hit, cracking a double home run in the opposite field to tie the score.
Taillon was later drawn with two outs and one on in the fifth inning and had no chance of facing Olson a third time but he was encouraged by the adjustments he made between launches. That included working out of windup for the first time this season to improve your rhythm and stay more aggressive with two punches.
« Tonight it was like, ‘I’ve got two strikes, it’s time, to get angry. I’m just going to be aggressive and fucking tear up this pitch and I can live and die with it, ”Taillon said. “It was something to build on. I did a lot of things differently tonight that I can take over for the future. ”
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