clay holmes made another save, but the Yankees, led by Jazz Chisholm Jr.Jong-un’s two home runs secured a 7-6 victory over the Phillies in 12 innings on Tuesday night.
The Yankees closer, hours after the team failed to trade for another high-leverage reliever at the deadline, blew his seventh save of the season. Holmes overcame soft hits on the field and walked to get two outs with runners in scoring position, but the right-hander bounced a pitch that allowed the runner on third to score, tying the game at 5-5 and eventually sending the game into extras where the The Yanks got timely hits and enough pitches to end the marathon.
Here are the conclusions…
-Chisholm was the story of this game. After launching two home runs on Monday, he would have an encore on Tuesday, launching two more blasts and accounting for all five of the Yankees’ runs.
While the first came on a fielder’s choice in the first, his solo shot in the sixth cut the Phillies’ lead to 4-2. He then came with an and Juan Soto It is Aaron Judge at the plate, the newly acquired infielder drove Matt Strahm 362 feet deep just inside the right field foul pole to put the Yankees ahead, 5-4, in the seventh.
Chisholm is the first player since Trevor’s Story in 2016 to hit four home runs in his first three games with a team. He also made some dazzling defensive plays at third base, just his second start of his professional career at the hot corner.
His third hit came in the 12th inning, a bloop single to left field to advance the runner to third. That runner would eventually score the winning run.
Chisholm finished 3-for-6 with five RBI.
-Thank God for Chisholm because the Yankees offense couldn’t get it right. In the first, they loaded the bases with no exits, but Austin Wells struck out before Chisholm hit into a fielder’s choice to score the first run of the game. Gleyber Torres would attack to end the threat.
After that, the Phillies starter Aaron Nola hunkered down and didn’t allow another run to score, but the Yankees still had chances.
Wells, in particular, had his chances. Beyond the first inning, he had Soto and Judge on base with no outs in the seventh and struck out. He was rescued by Chisholm’s home run. In the 11th, with runners on the corners and two outs, Wells struck out. The young catcher didn’t have a good day and finished 0-for-6 with three strikeouts.
The Yankees as a whole went 2-for-10 with RISP and left nine runners on base.
–Antonio Volpe (2-for-5 with a double) was the only Yankees besides Chisholm and Judge (3-for-4, two walks) to have a multi-hit game. The shortstop is now 10-for-33 in his last seven games.
Alex Verdugo He went 1-for-4 with a double walk and a sac fly in the 11th inning from the starting spot and now has a five-game hitting streak.
-Before the gameGerrit Cole it was scratched from the start with “general fatigue”. Manager Aaron Boone called up rookie Will Warren to make his major league debut and the young right-hander was solid.
After one Alec Bohm RBI double on first and one Austin Hays three-run shot in the second, the 25-year-old calmed down. He would allow just one more hit after the home run, striking out five straight, including three by strikeout.
Warren would pitch to the sixth, but it was done after 5.1 innings (97 pitches/60 strikes), allowing four runs on four hits, two walks, one HBP and struck out six.
-In Warren’s relief, the Yankees’ bullpen was great. The combination of Jake cousins (0.2IP), Tommy Kahnle (1 IP), and Lucas Weaver (1 IP) threw 2.2 scoreless innings without giving up a hit or a walk. After Holmes’ failed save, newly acquired reliever Mark Leiter Jr. – traded from Chicago hours before the game, worked his way out of trouble in the 10th to keep the score tied at 5-5.
Michael Tonkin would waste his save chance in the 11th after the Yankees took the lead, but would keep the Phillies off the board in the 12th to secure the victory.
A total of seven pitchers were used in Tuesday’s victory.
Game MVP: Jazz Chisholm
It couldn’t be anyone else. His smooth defense and dynamic power have energized the Yankees lineup the past two nights.
Highlights
What is the next
The Yankees and Phillies complete their three-game set on Wednesday afternoon. The first pitch is scheduled for 12:35 pm.
Nestor Cortes (4-9, 4.13 ERA) will take the mountain against Christopher Sanchez (7-6, 3.05 ERA).
