Yankees bats finally explode with big inning in win over Giants

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But they entered another miserable, cold and wet afternoon in The Bronx on Saturday losers of four of five, with a battered rotation, a slumping offense and another defeat away from falling to .500.A strong start from Will Warren and a five-run fifth inning, though, gave them a boost in an 8-4 win over the Giants and the Yankees will look to win the series Sunday at the Stadium.They had to survive another scare from closer Devin Williams, who allowed a pair of baserunners in the ninth, before retiring the heart of the Giants’ order.  With the day starting with news that yet another starter, Marcus Stroman, was headed to the IL with knee inflammation and an already taxed bullpen, Warren made it through five innings and gave up just two runs, courtesy of a second-run blast from ex-Met Wilmer Flores.And the Yankees’ offense, which got off to a fast start, with a pair of runs in the bottom of the first, added five more in the fifth, as the top half of the lineup beat up the Giants most of the afternoon.Aaron Judge got the offense going in the first with a single up the middle with one out, a 115.2- MPH shot that was his hardest-hit ball of the young season.Cody Bellinger followed with an opposite-field triple off the wall in left field that scored Judge for the game’s first run.Hot-hitting Paul Goldschmidt then added another run with a sacrifice fly to right to score Bellinger and make it 2-0.The lead didn’t last long, as the Giants answered in the second, sparked by Heliot Ramos’ ground rule double to open the inning.After LaMonte Wade Jr.

lined out, Flores hit one out to right-center.The two-run homer, Flores’ sixth of the season, tied the game at 2-2.The Yankees loaded the bases for Judge in the bottom of the in...