Yankees sweep Rays behind record-tying 14 homers in 2 video games

The New York Yankees’ bats are red-hot forward of a key four-game sequence in opposition to the Boston Red Sox.

Giancarlo Stanton hit a pinch-hit, two-run dwelling run within the prime of the tenth inning, and Austin Wells adopted together with his second homer of the night time because the Yankees topped the Rays 6-4 at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida, on Wednesday night time.

New York completed with 5 dwelling runs on the night time and 14 within the sequence sweep, tying a significant league file for many homers in a two-game sequence. The 1999 Reds beforehand held the file, doing so Sept. 4-5 in opposition to the Philadelphia Phillies — with present Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone hitting one of many dwelling runs for Cincinnati.

Trent Grisham hit his fifth leadoff dwelling run of the season — tied for the second most by a Yankees participant prior to now 20 seasons (DJ LeMahieu, six in 2019) — and later added his second of the night time within the eighth inning.

Together with Wells’ two-HR night time, it marked the primary time in Yankees historical past that a number of gamers hit a number of dwelling runs in consecutive video games; Stanton, Cody Bellinger and Jose Caballero every hit two in New York’s 13-3 win over the Rays an evening earlier.

In all, the Yankees have scored 19 runs prior to now two video games and all of them have come through homers. That’s essentially the most consecutive runs they’ve scored through homers since 2020 (20 straight).

Wednesday’s energy surge got here after a powerful outing from rookie Cam Schlittler.

Making his seventh main league begin, Schlittler held the Rays scoreless and to 1 hit over a career-high 6⅔ innings. His bid for an ideal recreation ended when Chandler Simpson singled to steer off the seventh. Schlittler walked two after the hit however escaped with assist from reliever Luke Weaver.

Schlittler struck out eight, all swinging. It was the longest perfect-game bid by a Yankees rookie since Fritz Peterson went 6 1/3 innings in opposition to the White Sox on July 4, 1966.

“What a performance,” Boone stated. “Dominant. Probably the best breaking ball he’s had all year to go with the fastball. He was just filling up the strike zone.”

New York improved to 69-57 after its first extra-inning highway win in seven tries this season.

It’s 4.5 video games behind the first-place Toronto Blue Jays within the AL East and 1.5 video games forward of the third-place Red Sox, who go to Yankee Stadium for the beginning of a four-game set Thursday night time.

Information from ESPN Research and The Associated Press was used on this report.