Oakland, Calif. — A new hope for the downtrodden empire?
His name, fittingly, is Luke.
Where would the 2018 Yankees be without Luke Voit? Quite possibly in dire straits, instead of being able to enjoy a few laughs in the very ballpark they hope to avoid visiting on Oct. 3.
It was Voit, the barely acclaimed July trade acquisition, who delivered an eighth-inning, 411-foot, solo homer off the A’s’ Fernando Rodney on Tuesday night, propelling the Yankees to a much-needed, 5-1 victory over Billy Beane’s upstart group at Oakland Coliseum that ended a two-game losing streak and extended their American League wild-card lead to 4 ¹/u2082 games, five in the loss column, over the A’s.