The Athletics (8-28) answered with two runs in the top of the sixth before the Yankees responded with Gleyber Torres’ tie-breaking solo shot and DJ LeMahieu tacked on a two-run insurance blast. “It was not that hard, but I’m glad that ball’s gone.” Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres (25) go-ahead home run during the sixth inning. “Absolutely I didn’t know that ball was gone,” Cabrera said of his reaction to contact. It came off the bat at 89 mph and gently dropped in the third row of seats just inside the foul pole for a two-run home run that would’ve been out of only three other MLB ballparks. If facing the MLB-worst Athletics wasn’t gift enough for the last-place Yankees after six losses in the past nine games, the home ballpark provided another favor in the fifth inning of a scoreless game by rewarding Oswaldo Cabrera for a 339-foot arcing fly ball. To get a couple big swings was good and definitely needs to be part of our game.” “I thought we had a pretty good approach today. “That’s really nice,” manager Aaron Boone said. They still don’t look like the Yankees, but for one night they hit like the Bronx Bombers.Ī lineup missing former MVPs Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Josh Donaldson in the middle still slugged four home runs Monday as the Yankees capitalized on a get-well game with a 7-2 victory against the Oakland Athletics in front of 33,011 at Yankee Stadium.
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