{"id":17419,"date":"2025-05-11T02:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T02:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/17419\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T02:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T02:11:18","slug":"yankees-waste-late-comeback-2-aaron-judge-homers-in-loss-to-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/17419\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees waste late comeback, 2 Aaron Judge homers in loss to A\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two solo home runs from Aaron Judge<\/a> and a go-ahead homer from Oswald Peraza<\/a> weren\u2019t enough for the Yankees<\/a> to pull off a comeback win on Saturday, as they fell to the Athletics, 11-7.<\/p>\n

The Yankees put themselves up 6-4 with a five-run sixth, but that lead was quickly erased after some catchable balls off the bats of Brent Rooker and Tyler Soderstrom fell near Jasson Dom\u00ednguez and Trent Grisham in the seventh. Shea Langeliers capitalized on the knocks, crushing a three-run homer off Fernando Cruz\u2019s signature splitter, which lacked its typical bite on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The jack put Sacramento up for good, though the A\u2019s tacked on a few more runs in the eighth on a two-run single from Soderstrom and a two-run double from Langeliers.<\/p>\n

Home runs put the Yankees in an early hole as well, as Carlos Rod\u00f3n surrendered a bases-empty blast to Luis Ur\u00edas in the second inning before Rooker added a three-run homer in the third.<\/p>\n

Rod\u00f3n didn\u2019t permit any other runs over six innings, and he struck out a season-high 10 batters without walking anyone.<\/p>\n

Judge, a Linden, California native who grew up about an hour away from Sacramento\u2019s Sutter Health Park, put the Yankees on the board with his first homer of the day, a fourth-inning shot off ex-Bomber JP Sears.<\/p>\n

The sixth inning saw Judge go deep again, a rude welcome to the game for A\u2019s reliever Justin Sterner. That longball sparked a rally, as Cody Bellinger and Anthony Volpe followed with a walk and a double, respectively, before an Austin Wells sac fly put the Yankees down one.<\/p>\n

Oswaldo Cabrera later knotted the game with his own sac fly, while a hyped-up Peraza broke the tie with a two-run homer off Sterner, who entered the game with a 0.00 ERA.<\/p>\n

While all that offense couldn\u2019t secure a win, Judge, who added an RBI groundout off Mason Miller in the ninth, continued his brilliance at the plate this season. With 14 homers, 37 RBI and a .396 average, the Yankees\u2019 captain is pacing the majors in all three Triple Crown categories.<\/p>\n

With the Yankees bested on Saturday, they will try to win a rubber match in Sunday\u2019s series finale. They\u2019ll have to go through another former Yankee to do that, as Luis Severino is scheduled to face his former employer for the first time.<\/p>\n

The Yankees had yet to officially announce a Sunday starter at the time of publication, though Ryan Yarbrough, a longman in the bullpen with starting experience, was expected to provide innings in some capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two solo home runs from Aaron Judge and a go-ahead homer from Oswald Peraza weren\u2019t enough for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[106,963,5,2004,4,1690,62,2548,2547,142,8619],"class_list":{"0":"post-17419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-as","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-carlos-rodon","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkyankees","17":"tag-yankees","18":"tag-yankes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}