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Orgo-Life the new way to the future Advertising by AdpathwayFor weeks (or arguably months) without Aaron Judge and to a lesser extent Cody Bellinger and Giancarlo Stanton, the Yankees lineup has looked asleep.
On Wednesday, it was as if the bats had set repeated alarms, jolting awake in increments before several late-game outbursts that sure made the club look alive.
The Yankees dug holes — surprising for a rolling pitching staff — and escaped them — surprising for a stalling offense. They rattled off the final seven runs of a 10-5 victory to clinch a series over the Mariners in front of 41,714, three of whom rushed the field in the fifth inning only to be taken down (in one case, particularly violently) by Yankee Stadium security.
Against a strong Mariners staff and Bryce Miller, the Yankees exploded for 13 hits, including six doubles and a pair of home runs from Trent Grisham — who finished 3-for-5 with 10 total bases, four RBIs and a defensive lapse that was forgotten about — that helped seal it.
All after they were trailing, 3-0, five batters into the game, and Will Warren (four innings, five runs) applied plenty of pressure to the team’s offense.
“To break out like that — we haven’t done that in a while — against a team that’s good at limiting runs, good to see everyone contribute, especially when you fall behind like that in the first inning,” said manager Aaron Boone, whose team scored more than five runs in a game for just a fifth time in its past 48 games and scored double-digit runs for the first time since July 9. “We just kept kind of crawling our way back into it.”
The Yankees (68-52) won a fourth of five games, remained six games back of the Rays in the AL East and moved four games clear of the Red Sox, who have dropped five straight, for the top wild card.
It was a 3-0 hole. After a second-inning double from Ryan McMahon, it was 3-1.
Then it was a 4-1 hole. After a third-inning, two-run double off the left field wall from Spencer Jones, it was 4-3.
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Then it was a 5-3 hole entering the bottom of the fifth, which is when the bullpen entered and shut down the Mariners (five technically shutout innings from a shaky Fernando Cruz and a solid Tim Hill, Paul Blackburn, Brent Headrick and Yerry De Los Santos) and the offense seized control.
“They scored runs,” Jones said after reaching base three times and knocking in three runs with a pair of doubles. “We came right back.”
In the fifth, Grisham — briefly a villain in The Bronx after he allowed a would-be out to drop in front of him in the second inning — demolished a first-pitch, two-out home run to bring the Yankees within one run. Two pitches later, Ben Rice doubled into the right field corner, and before he could catch his breath, he hustled home on a first-pitch double from Jones that tied the game.
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The Yankees used more patience in a three-run seventh, when nine stepped to the plate, Grisham added his RBI double, Rice followed with an RBI single and Jazz Chisholm Jr. — mightily struggling and watching the Mariners intentionally walk Heliot Ramos ahead of him to get a bases-loaded matchup with lefty Gabe Speier — worked a strong walk to bring home another run.
“Some good left-on-left at-bats,” Boone said before adding, “Eventually the dam broke.”
The game became a rout in the eighth, when Grisham clubbed his second homer, this to right-center, for his second multihomer game of the year.
Grisham is among the many who did not step up during this prolonged chill without the team’s best bats. Perhaps that trend is ending.
“I feel good,” said a typically reserved Grisham, who is 8-for-17 with three homers and four doubles in his past four games.
The whole team can feel good after what has become a rarity: a victory going away. The Yankees’ previous six games and previous seven wins had been decided by three runs or fewer.
“We never felt like we were out of it tonight,” Rice said.


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