Yankees fall to Diamondbacks again after ninth-inning rally falls just short
Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.This time, the torpedo came close, but not close enough.The Yankees offense, silent against Arizona right-hander Zac Gallen, came alive in the bottom of the ninth, capped by Anthony Volpe’s three-run blast with one out off A.J.
Puk.But the Yankees fell just short, as Austin Wells popped out and Jasson Domínguez struck out to end the 4-3 defeat, their second in a row after winning their first three.Gallen limited the Yankees to three hits over 6 ²/₃ shutout innings while striking out 13, and the Diamondbacks knocked around Carlos Rodón for the first two innings before the lefty settled down.Rodón’s excellent final four innings weren’t enough to overcome his rocky start, when he allowed four runs in the first two frames.And the Yankees were silent until the bottom of the ninth, when Cody Bellinger and Aaron Judge opened with base hits.But Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s fly ball to right died in the wind before Volpe gave the Yankees some hope.The big blow for Arizona came just three batters into the game, as Lourdes Gurriel Jr.
slammed a two-run homer in the top of the first.The blast reached the second deck in left off an 0-2 four-seam fastball.
And it came after a leadoff walk to Ketel Marte, fresh off signing a six-year, $116 million contract extension.Rodón’s struggles didn’t end there.He issued a walk to start the second, this time to Eugenio Suárez.
The lefty then walked off the mound after falling 2-0 behind the next batter, Gabriel Moreno.Rodón couldn’t handle Moreno’s comeback later in the at-bat, and it went for a single.The runners advanced on a Jake McCarthy groundout, and Arizona took a 3-0 lead on Geraldo Perdomo’s sacrifice fly to center.
A base hit up the middle by Marte scored Moreno to make it 4-0.The Yankees threatened for the first time in the bottom of the inning, with a Chisholm flare...