OAKLAND, California – Bronx Firefighters Return.
The Yankees got their 13th straight win and defeated four homers in an 8-2 win over the A’s at Oakland Coliseum on Friday night.
They have hit 10 homers in their last three games and have scored at least five runs in their last eight. It adds to the franchise’s longest winning streak since 1961, when they also won 13 straight.
“Every time you do a record with this organization, you probably do something special,” Gerrit Cole said about the streak. “But there’s a lot left out there.”
His biggest bats, Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge, deepened and his best pitcher, Cole, threw like an ace, with six innings closed.
Chad Green got five big outings before the Yankees attacked three runs in the ninth against the A’s, which went in the opposite direction and lost six in a row.
“That’s what we planned to do all year,” Luke Voit said. “We finally get to this point.”
And as the rays also refuse to lose, the Yankees fell four behind Tampa Bay’s first-place, east of the AL.
“We know all games are still mandatory,” said Kyle Higashioka, who also made a home run. “We hope to be like that by the end of October.”
And for a change, they moved away late.
“It was good to see us keep adding,” Aaron Boone said. “It simply came to our notice then. We left the team out. “
Stanton gave them the lead with another titanic home run to win the top of the quarter. For the third time in his career he has won four games in a row.
“Watching‘ Big G ’is what I like most about all of baseball,” Higashioka said of Stanton’s prodigious days.
Two batters after Stanton’s 472-foot shot, Voit, still in a limited role after Anthony Rizzo’s arrival, hit one in the middle to make it 2-0.
Since returning from a period of IL due to left knee inflammation, Voit has looked like the batsman who led the majors in home runs last season.
The Yankees got a three-run homer from Judge in the fifth, his 28th of the season.
He left outfielder Sean Manaea out of the game, and unlike Thursday, when the Yankees won 6-0, Cole helped them hold on.
Cole allowed consecutive singles to Elvis Andrus and Tony Kemp to start the bottom of the fifth before Mars came out. Matt Olson walked to load the bases, but Cole got Jed Lowrie swaying for the second outing.
Josh Harrison then hit a liner that looked destined for the left field for a two-run single, but Gio Urshela, in his second game back with a hamstring tendon, made an excellent jump to the left to threaten.
Cole has been excellent since his return from COVID-19 IL. He has given up a single run in 17 innings / ₃ in three outings.
Joely Rodriguez replaced Cole to start the seventh and proved unstable.
He walked into Chad Pinder’s hand with a single exit and allowed only one to go to Mars. After the visit of throwing coach Matt Blake, Olson chose left to score Pinder and a throwing error by Joey Gallo allowed another run to enter.
Chad Green took over from Rodriguez and walked Lowrie, but then got Harrison to the ground in a final double play.
The offense avoided any other three-run drama in the ninth, with Higashioka reaching the ninth of the season and Judge adding an RBI single.