Voit Lifts Yanks Over Os With Leadoff, Walk-Off Sac Fly
New York started the shortened season 15-6, plummeted with a 5-16 funk and now is on its longest winning streak since taking six in a row from Aug. 11-17.
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New York started the shortened season 15-6, plummeted with a 5-16 funk and now is on its longest winning streak since taking six in a row from Aug. 11-17.
Mark Newman, a key front office executive for the New York Yankees during their run of five World Series titles from 1996 through 2009, was found dead Saturday at his home in Tampa, Florida.
Dominic Smith hit his first career grand slam and Wilson Ramos had a three-run double in a 10-run fourth inning.
The Yankees moved 3 1/2 games ahead of the Orioles for the AL's final postseason spot as the teams began a four-game series.
The Yankees have lost 15 of their last 21 games and entered Thursday third in AL East at 22-21, just 1 1/2 games ahead of the Orioles (20-22).
The Mets came back from a six-run deficit Monday before falling to the Philadelphia Phillies 9-8 in 10 innings.
The Yankees had lost 15 of 20 and fallen to the edge of the expanded playoff field.
At 21-21, the Yankees are at .500 or worse in September for the first time since 1995.
Jake Marisnick and Jeff McNeil homered for the Mets, who lost for the eighth time in 12 games and absorbed one of their most lopsided losses of the season.
In his third start since moving out of the bullpen, Lugo (2-2) pitched five innings of one-run ball and tied a career high with eight strikeouts.
Cole (4-3) lost a third straight start for the first time since July 30-Aug. 10, 2018, with Houston. Prior to this skid, the right-hander had reeled off 20 straight regular-season victories.
The Yankees homered in 22 straight games against Baltimore before being contained in the nightcap, leaving them one short game of matching the mark by a team against a single opponent.
The Mets came back from deficits of 4-0 and 7-4 at Citi Field to earn a split of the six-game season series, all of which was played over the last six days.
Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman was handed a three-game suspension by Major League Baseball that he's appealing.
New York fell a season-high six games under .500, ahead of only Washington in the NL East.
Chapman's first pitch to Brosseau with two outs in the ninth inning whizzed past Brosseau's head, and umpires met before issuing warnings to both benches amid a budding rivalry that's been dominated this season by Tampa Bay.
Miguel Rojas hit a tiebreaking RBI single during Miami's four-run sixth inning against Jacob deGrom, and the Marlins beat the New York Mets 5-3 on Monday.
Betances landed on the injured list with right lat tightness. Matz was placed on the IL with left shoulder discomfort and will see a doctor Monday to determine the next step.
The Mets had won three straight and six of eight, including a Subway Series doubleheader sweep Friday at Yankee Stadium.
The sweep sent the Yankees to their seventh straight loss, their worst skid since 2017.
Both teams left the field, leaving only a Black Lives Matter t-shirt at home.
The teams played despite three postponements around Major League Baseball on Wednesday as players boycotted games to protest racial injustice following the shooting by police of a Black man Sunday in Wisconsin.
The Yankees have lost five straight.
The Mets put runners on in every inning against the quartet of Dan Castano, Richard Bleier, Brad Boxberger and Brandon Kintzler but went 1 for 12 with runners on base.
The Yankees were eager to get back on the field after their three-game Subway Series against the New York Mets was postponed because of coronavirus concerns.
