The Yankees’ offense came into today’s game carrying the most pressure it had all season long. A potential defeat would leave the Rays with the opportunity to tie the Yankees in the loss column with a win tomorrow to sweep, which would be disastrous to say the least.
Luckily, the offense responded with its best performance in a while, smashing in Corey Kluber to make up for its failures against him in the other four matchups between the two this season. Aaron Judge came up to bat twice in the first inning, and by the end of the frame, the Yankees needed only to not screw everything up in order to come out victorious in this one, as they put up a crooked number (six runs) to open it all up.