Seattle Mariners at New York Yankees

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Seattle Mariners

27-24, 12-14 Away

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New York Yankees

35-17, 18-8 Home

Juan Soto hits 40th homer, Aaron Judge drives in 4 runs as Yankees thump Mariners 11-2

The Yankees can clinch at worst a wild-card spot in the American League with a victory over Seattle on Wednesday. The win in the opener of New York’s six-game road trip pushed the Yankees lead in the AL East to four games over Baltimore — their largest lead since holding a 4 1/2-game lead when play started on June 7.

Judge laced a two-run double three batters into the game and added a two-out, two-run single the next time he was up an inning later. Judge now has a league-leading 136 RBI on the season.

Soto joined the offensive outburst in the third inning with a two-out, two-run opposite field blast off Seattle starter Bryan Woo. It’s the first time in his career Soto has reached the 40-homer mark and he’s now homered in all 30 parks in baseball.

Soto and Judge are the third set of Yankee teammates to each hit 40 home runs in a season joining Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig (1927, 1930, 1931), and Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris (1961).

The top three hitters in New York’s order — Judge, Soto and Gleyber Torres — were a combined 7-for-8 with four extra-base hits and six RBI against Woo.

In two previous career starts against the Yankees, Woo had not given up a run. This time, he was tagged for a season-high seven earned runs in 4 2/3 innings of work and was knocked out after giving up Jasson Dominguez’s first homer since undergoing Tommy John surgery last September.

Woo (8-3) struck out seven and walked one. Austin Wells added a bases clearing double in the sixth inning as New York reached double figures in runs for the 14th time. Seattle had gone 107 consecutive home games without allowing 10 or more runs — the longest active streak in the majors.

Yankees starter Luis Gil struggled badly with his control early, but escaped trouble in the first inning thanks to Victor Robles to try stealing home with the bases loaded, two outs and Justin Turner with a 3-0 count at the plate.

Robles was out and Gil (14-6) ended up working five innings giving up one run and striking out five. Jorge Polanco and Luke Raley hit solo homers and Julio Rodriguez — wearing crystal embellished shoes — had four hits for Seattle.

Marcus Stroman worked three innings of relief for the Yankees as part of his move to the bullpen for this road trip. It was the ninth relief appearance of his career. He gave up five hits including Raley's homer.

Yankees: LHP Nester Cores (9-10, 3.90 ERA) threw five innings and allowed one run with nine strikeouts against Boston in his last start.

Mariners: RHP Bryce Miller (11-8, 3.12) has allowed one earned run and struck out 11 in his last two starts combined.

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Matchup Prediction

Yankees: 61.1%

Mariners: 38.9%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	France grounded into fielder's choice to shortstop, Polanco out at second.
	9th Inning	Polanco singled to left, Garver to second.
	9th Inning	Polanco hit for Urías
	9th Inning	Rodríguez struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Haniger struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Garver singled to center.

Statistics

SEA		NYY
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	1
11	Ground Balls	15
12	Strikeouts	4
0	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
3	Hits	11
0	Stolen Bases	2
4	Walks	5
0	Catcher Interference	0
0	Runs	5
0	Ground Into Double Play	2
0	Sacrifice Flies	2
30	At Bats	30
0	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
16	Runners Left On Base	16
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	2
7	Fly Balls	13
0	Caught Stealing	1
147	Pitches	147
0	Games Started	0
3	Pinch At Bats	1
1	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
3	Total Bases	19
35	Plate Appearances	38
0.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
0	Extra Base Hits	4
0.3	Runs Created	7.9
.100	Batting Average	.367
.333	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.100	Slugging Percentage	.633
.133	Secondary Average	.467
.229	On Base Percentage	.447
.329	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.081
1.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.2
0.3	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	8.9
3.0	Batter Rating	43.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	15.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.67
4.20	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.87
.000	Isolated Power	.267
0.33	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	1.25
.114	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.132
.033	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.100
0.0	Runs Produced	10.0
0.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.2	Patience Ratio	0.7
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.4
56.5	MLB Rating	95.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0