ATLANTA — A high-scoring offense, notably one which crushes residence runs, has a manner of placing Wite-Out on a workforce’s issues.
Exhibit A: the Yankees.
On an evening when poor fundamentals and a leaky bullpen almost value them once more, Anthony Volpe’s two-homer sport fueled a comeback to tie it by the eighth inning after the Yankees had trailed by as many as 5 runs.
That set the stage for Trent Grisham, who delivered a grand slam with two outs within the high of the ninth off Braves nearer Raisel Iglesias to raise the Yankees to a stirring 12-9 win on Saturday evening at Truist Park.
Susceptible to dropping a fourth straight sport and falling a season-high 4 video games out of first place within the AL East, the Yankees (54-44) started the ninth inning with a double from Paul Goldschmidt earlier than the Braves (43-54) deliberately walked Aaron Choose with one out. Giancarlo Stanton then drew a stroll to load the bases, however Jazz Chisholm Jr. adopted by lining out to a leaping Nacho Alvarez Jr. at third base.
Grisham saved the day, although, clobbering a slider to right-center area for his seventeenth residence run of the yr to interrupt an 8-8 tie in dramatic trend.
Devin Williams gave up a run within the backside of the ninth however then closed the door.
The Yankees trailed 5-0 after 4 innings when Volpe crushed his first residence run of the evening, a two-run shot within the high of the fifth. He got here near hitting a grand slam within the sixth inning, however settled for a sacrifice fly to the warning monitor as a part of a four-run rally that pulled the Yankees inside 7-6.
After which with one out within the eighth inning, the Yankees trailing 8-7, Volpe tied it up by going deep once more for his first profession multi-home run sport.
After grounding out in his first at-bat Saturday, Volpe had fallen additional right into a 12-for-100 stoop that started on June 15. Throughout that skid, he had hit solely two residence runs as his offensive manufacturing dried up, however he matched that in an enormous manner on Saturday.
An evening after Jorbit Vivas’ baserunning mistake loomed over a 7-3 loss, Will Warren’s elementary miscue put an exclamation level on a horrible four-run fourth inning that he didn’t survive. The suitable-hander had already given up a three-run residence run to Ozzie Albies that made it a 4-0 sport — Albies’ second in as many nights — however then put runners on first and second with two outs.
Nick Allen got here up and hit a floor ball off of first base, the place Paul Goldschmidt ranged to his proper to gather it. Warren didn’t instantly race to first to cowl the bag, permitting Allen to hustle down the road for an infield single. However whereas Warren was receiving the throw at first, Alvarez by no means stopped working round third base and got here in to attain from the again door, placing the Braves forward 5-0.
That marked the tip of Warren’s evening, as he bought tagged for 5 runs in 3 ²/₃ innings, a day after the Yankees opened the second half with a bullpen sport.
After Volpe’s two-run shot within the high of the fifth, the Braves rapidly bought the 2 runs again within the backside of the body off Tim Hill and Scott Effross to make it a 7-2 sport.
From there, the Yankees started to claw their manner again and almost did all of it within the high of the sixth. They loaded the bases with no outs off former Yankee Enyel De Los Santos — a commerce deadline bust of final summer season — and turned it right into a four-run rally.
Chisholm had an RBI single, Grisham drove in one other run on a fielding error by first baseman Matt Olson, Volpe hit a sac fly after which Austin Wells made it 7-6 on an RBI groundout.
Jonathan Loáisiga gave up one other run within the backside of the sixth, however Cody Bellinger bought it again by main off the highest of the seventh along with his seventeenth residence run of the yr.
