The New York Yankees have won four consecutive games on the back of a hot hit. In an away game against the Kansas City Royals held at Kaufman Stadium on Sunday (Korea time), the Yankees won the game 11-5 with three home runs by Giancarlo Stanton, Jose Trevino and Gleyber Torres.
After beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-4 on the 10th, the Yankees, who grabbed all four consecutive away games against Kansas City, rose to No. 1 overall in the Major League with 49 wins and 21 losses, recovering a winning percentage of 70 percent. The Philadelphia Phillies (46-21), who had been No. 1 until the previous day, fell to No. 2 overall after losing 6-8 to the Boston Red Sox. 토토사이트 추천
For opposing pitchers, the Yankees’ lineup has no place to rest. The Yankees, which beat Aaron Judge, Stanton, and Austin Wells 10-1 on the previous day, blasted a flurry of home runs on the day as well, devastating the Kansas City mound. Notably, Stanton, one of the big three Yankees pitchers, continued his enhanced slugging capability by arcing for two consecutive games.
Judge scored one hit and one run in five at-bats without a home run, and Soto scored three runs in two at-bats, one hit and two walks and one strikeout, helping him win as a table setter.
Judge ranks first with 25 homers in the AL home run rankings, while Stanton and Soto are tied for fifth with 17. The three players are poised to establish themselves as the strongest center trio in history with 59 homers. At the current pace, Judge will hit 58 homers and Judge and Stanton will hit 39.
In addition to Stanton, Torres hit three-run homeruns and Trevino hit two hits and three RBIs, leading the offense. Yankees starter Cody Fortit allowed four hits and two runs in five ⅓ innings, and won three games (two losses) for the season. Average earned run is 2.14.
The Yankees scored six runs in the top of the first inning to take the lead. Alex Verdugo brought in two runners with right-handed hits to take the lead, taking a 2-0 lead in the bases loaded with Anthony Wolfie’s heavy hit, Soto’s walk and Judge’s right-handed hit.
After adding a point with Anthony Rizzo’s sacrifice fly with the bases loaded with one out, Trevino beat Kansas City left-hander Daniel Lynch with a three-run shot to the left for a 6-0 run.
The Yankees’ lineup, which had been in a lull, exploded again in the fifth inning. One out and the second base were hit by Soto, the leadoff, and Judge’s grounder to the pitcher. Stanton then hit a two-run homer to left-center, widening the gap to 8-0. Stanton hit a 93.9-mile fastball, which was high in Lynch’s fourth pitch, to 449 feet beyond the left-center fence. It was a powerful cannon with a firing angle of 24 degrees and a batting speed of 111.6 miles.
When Kansas City scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning with Bobby Witt Jr.’s double and Nelson Velazquez’s sacrifice fly, the Yankees sealed the game with Torres hitting a three-run homer over the left fence with two outs and runners on first and third base in the top of the seventh inning.