Yankees won a four-game series! Against the reigning World Champs Kansas City Royals! Eovaldi threw another so-so start but Yankee bats hit big hits in right times to help defeat the Royals 7-3. Talk of the game? Headley actually getting an extra base hit and Chien Ming Wang’s return to the Yankee Stadium.
Long Balls From Infielders
For the first five innings, Yankees scored five runs on three home runs – those long balls happened to be the only hits that they had hit then. A neat thing about them is that they were all hit by the left side of the infield – Castro, Headley (!