With a pair of one-run showings in the first two games of the series, the Yankees looked poised to be swept. But spurred by the presence of their ace and his flirtation with perfection, the Bombers bounced back, taking the last game of their second-to-last series at home 5-3.
The Yankees tripled their run total from last night in the first inning alone. DJ LeMahieu and Gleyber Torres notched opposite-field singles, staying on a pair of sinkers, around an Aaron Judge strikeout. That’s when Jake Bauers, hitting cleanup despite going two for his last 38, unloaded on a sinker himself, depositing it into the second deck:
Berríos settled in after that, allowing just four more baserunners over the next 4.