Astros vs. Yankees – Game Report – June 26, 2022 – ESPN

NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge he walked to the stands and handed his bat to Spike Lee, a Yankees fan famous for writing Hollywood dramas.

The series that the Astros and Yankees played this weekend offered all kinds of upsets and emotional outcomes. And when it comes to baseball’s season prizes, experts will have to take a hard look at Judge’s starring role.

“I’ve told him I have to stop underestimating him,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.

Judge hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning to leave the Astros on the field for the second time in four days and the New York Yankees rallied after nearly being dominated without a hitter for the second straight day to beat the Yankees 6-3. Houston Astros and split wins in the four-game series between the top two teams in the American League.

“It ended up being Judge 2, Us 2,” Houston manager Dusty Baker said.

Giancarlo Stanton ended New York’s historic unstoppable streak with a home run in the seventh with one out against the Mexican Jose Urquidy Y DJ LeMahieu He followed it up with a two-run homer in the eighth.

Urquidy held the Yankees without a hit in the first six innings, in which he gave away three walks. In the seventh he allowed the only hit in seven innings pitched, and after leaving the game with a 3-1 lead, he went no decision.

“These players never, ever give up,” Judge said. “They don’t get out of the plan, they stay with their method and they don’t stop insisting.”

New York’s 16⅓-inning hitless drought in the last three series games against the Astros is the longest by any team since at least 1961, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

The Yankees went 0-for-52 from the eighth inning in a 3-1 loss on Friday — a stretch that included a combined no-hitter of Christian Xavier, Hector Neris Y Ryan Pressley Saturday.

No team has gone hitless and runless in consecutive games, although the 1917 Chicago White Sox were hitless on consecutive days against the St. Louis Browns, but the second gem came in Game 2 of a doubleheader.

After Michael King survived a bases-loaded quagmire in the 10th, Isiah Kiner-Falefa executed a two-strike bunt that led to Aaron Hicks, autorunner, to third. The right Seth Martinez intentionally grounded the emergent matt carpenter and struck out LeMahieu, to face Judge with two out.

And just like Thursday, when he singled to break a 6-6 tie in the ninth, Judge led the major league-leading Yankees with a drive to left-center off a slider that went into the team’s bullpen. visitor.

With their 10th win in the final at-bat of the season, the Yankees improved to 53-20 to match the third-best start after 73 games in the majors since 1930, trailing only the 2001 Seattle Mariners and 1998 Yankees. They are 24-1 when Judge and Stanton homer in the same game, including 8-0 this season.

For the Astros, the Venezuelan Jose Altuve 1-3 with one run scored and one RBI; the honduran Mauricio Dubon 4-1 with two RBIs; the Cubans Jeremy Pena 4-1 with a run scored and yuli gurriel 5-2 with a run scored and the Puerto Rican Martin Maldonado from 3-0.

For the Yankees, the Venezuelan Gleyber Torres from 3-0.