Yankees Explode Offensively vs. Royals

 

The suddenly surging Yankees won their seventh straight game Friday night behind four home runs en route to a 12-2 smack down of the Kansas City Royals.

Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Anthony Rizzo, and Gleyber Torres all went deep as the Yankee posted double-digits in runs for the fourth time in this current winning streak.

 

Stanton and Rizzo both went deep in the first inning as the Yankees built an early 3-0 lead. While the Royals would strike back, scoring a couple of runs to get to within 3-2, Nestor Cortes kept the Royals at bay. The lefty struck out three batters, scattered eight hits over five innings of work for the Bronx Bombers as he lowered his ERA to 1.31.

The Yankees put the game away in the later inning, scoring a total of nine runs between the seventh and eighth innings combined.

D.J. LaMahieu got it started with a RBI single in the seventh, scoring Isiah-Kiner Falefa to make it a 4-2 ballgame. Judge followed with a mammoth three-run homer to give the Yanks a 7-2 advantage.

 In the eighth Gleyber Torres went deep with a two run bomb to make it 9-2. Kyle Higashioka capped it off  with a bases clearing double. 

 The Yankees had 11 hits overall in the contest. New York owns the best record in the American League at 14-6, an incredible run considering how slowly the Yankees started out the of the gate for the 2022 season.