NEW YORK — Six-run leads with All-Star aces on the mound don't mean what they used to.
Less than a week after watching Tampa Bay rally to victory from a 6-0, fifth-inning deficit against Gerrit Cole, the Yankees found themselves trailing Shane McClanahan by the same margin on Saturday.
"They did it to us. Let's do it to them," Anthony Rizzo remembered saying to teammates in New York's dugout.
Aaron Judge hit a pair of two-run homers, Anthony Volpe sparked the Yankees by breaking Joe DiMaggio's team record for consecutive stolen bases at the start of a career and New York topped the Rays 9-8.