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So I guess the Yankees figured out how to score away from the Bronx, eh?
It got so bad in Friday’s 13-6 win that the White Sox used designated hitter Adam LaRoche in the ninth inning, the third time this season that a position player has pitched against the Yankees. The last time three position players pitched against the Yankees in a single season was 1964 when the Angels’ Willie Smith did it three times, and the last time three different position players pitched against them was 1944.
Mark Teixeira broke the game open with a grand slam in the second inning off southpaw Carlos Rodon, the 10th of his career and second this season. He added a two-run homer in the fourth inning off righty Matt Albers, marking the 14th time he’s homered from both sides of the plate in a single game. That’s the most such games in major-league history, and one more than former Yankee Nick Swisher.
He finished with six RBI, joining Lou Gehrig (1934) as the only Yankee first basemen ever to drive in that many runs against the White Sox. The only other Yankee first baseman in the last 75 years with a grand slam against the White Sox are Jason Giambi (2003), Tino Martinez (1997) and Don Mattingly (1987).
A-Rod had himself a nice day at the plate, too, with two hits and three walks and four runs scored. He’s just the fourth player at the age of 40-or-older to reach base at least five times and score four runs in a game in the last 100 years. The others are Rickey Henderson (1999), Dave Winfield (1994) and Reggie Jackson (1986). Yes, all of them are former Yankees, but none did it in pinstripes besides A-Rod.
The Melkman cometh
One day after their 13-run explosion against the White Sox, the Yankees managed just five hits and two runs in a loss on Saturday night. Baseball, I guess?
Friday was eighth game this season that the Yankees scored double-digit runs … they’ve now scored 23 runs combined in the next game, or an average of 2.9 per game, and in five of those eight games they’ve been held to two runs or fewer.
Our old friend Melky Cabrera put the game out of reach with a three-run homer in the fifth inning, giving the White Sox a 6-1 lead. That gave him nine homers in 128 career at-bats against the Yankees, or one every 14 at-bats. Against everyone else in his career, he’s hit a homer once every 54 at-bats.
Bronx bombers are back
The Yankees finished off their 10-game road trip with another offensive outburst, crushing the White Sox 12-3 on Sunday afternoon to win the rubber game of the series. The Yankees haven’t lost a series since the end of June, getting seven series wins and one split in that span. Muy bueno.
With 12 runs in this game and 13 in the series opener, it was the first time the Yankees scored 12-or-more runs twice in a single series against the White Sox since May 10-11, 1988 in New York.
The star of the game was an unlikely one, as Stephen Drew tallied a season-high three hits and four RBI from the bottom of the lineup. He was a homer short of the cycle, the first Yankee No. 9 hitter to do that since Joe Girardi on Aug. 23, 1999 against the Rangers. A Yankee batting ninth in the order still has never hit for the cycle.
The last Yankee second baseman with at least a single, double and a triple against the White Sox was Bobby Richardson on July 29, 1962. Richardson had a league-leading 209 hits that season and finished second in the AL MVP race behind teammate Mickey Mantle.
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