Yankees relinquish late lead as A’s win slugfest with three homers

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After his first sensation of Major League Baseball successful a steamy insignificant convention park, Aaron Judge watched arsenic a mates of mishits ended up connected nan informing track.

“It’s a bully spot to hit,” Judge declared Friday. “Look guardant to tomorrow.”

He and overmuch of nan Yankees discourtesy seemed to bask nan perks and quirks of a superior metropolis successful which baseballs play much for illustration bouncy balls.

The only problem: So did nan A’s.

On an day successful which drifting outfielders were perplexed that nan balls conscionable kept traveling, nan no-longer-Oakland nine utilized 3 location runs and a beardown decorativeness to out-offense nan Yankees 11-7 successful beforehand of different sellout astatine Sutter Health Park connected Saturday.

The Yankees (22-17) wasted a multihomer crippled from Judge, a resounding go-ahead changeable from Oswald Peraza and a spirited comeback from a four-run deficit.

They led aft six innings earlier nan bullpen allowed 7 runs successful nan seventh and eighth.

After a five-run sixth that put nan Yankees successful beforehand by two, nan A’s took nan lead for bully against Fernando Cruz successful nan seventh.

In nan frame, Brent Rooker singled and Tyler Soderstrom doubled, putting nan tying runs connected base.

Both scored erstwhile Shea Langeliers sewage nether a Cruz splitter, sending halfway fielder Trent Grisham backpedaling until smacking into nan wall for what became a three-run shot.

The Yankees threatened successful nan apical of nan eighth, putting nan tying tally connected 2nd and go-ahead tally connected first pinch 1 out. But nan A’s turned to fireballing person Mason Miller, who struck retired Ben Rice and Paul Goldschmidt to escape.

The A’s avoided a melodramatic decorativeness by moving distant from nan Yankees successful nan bottommost of nan inning, scoring 4 runs disconnected a chaotic Ian Hamilton and a hard-hit Tyler Matzek.

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Hamilton loaded nan bases earlier handing disconnected to Matzek, who allowed a two-run azygous to Soderstrom and a two-run double to Langeliers, who smacked 1 complete nan mitt of a Grisham who did not get a bully jump.

Ruined by nan extremity was nan Yankees comeback launched successful nan mediate innings.

Down 4-0 aft 4 innings because of a brace of location runs surrendered by Carlos Rodón, nan Yankees scored erstwhile successful nan 4th and 5 times successful nan sixth, afloat taking advantage of nan elements.

In nan fourth, Judge stepped to nan sheet and heard an “Overrated!” chant from 1 instrumentality (whose sound could intelligibly beryllium heard, 1 of nan oddities of playing a crippled successful beforehand of 12,113 people).

On nan first transportation he saw from erstwhile teammate JP Sears, Judge sewage capable of a Sears four-seamer for a homer that conscionable cleared nan wall successful right-center.

Two innings later, Judge smacked his 2nd of nan day, this 1 disconnected reliever Justin Sterner, who had not allowed a tally successful his first 18 appearances this play earlier nan Yankees teed disconnected connected nan righty.

Judge’s no-doubter bounced halfway up nan batter’s oculus successful straightaway halfway for his majors-best 14th homer of nan season.

The framework was conscionable beginning. A Cody Bellinger locomotion and Anthony Volpe double began a threat that was cashed successful by sacrifice flies from Austin Wells and pinch-hitting Oswaldo Cabrera.

In a necktie crippled pinch Jasson Domínguez connected first, Peraza sewage clasp of a 1-2, middle-of-the-plate sweeper and pulled it conscionable adjacent down nan left-field statement for a two-run changeable that put nan Yankees up to stay.

With DJ LeMahieu owed backmost arsenic soon arsenic Monday successful Seattle, Peraza’s spot connected nan roster has seemed successful question. If this location tally — conscionable his 2nd of nan twelvemonth — meant a spot much to him, it showed: He looked toward nan dugout, slammed his bat to nan ungraded and pumped his first connected nan measurement to first base.

As it would move out, that plaything would beryllium nan last affirmative infinitesimal of nan time for nan Yankees.