The New York Yankees snapped a six-game losing streak with a 7-3 win over the Los Angeles Angels at home on Thursday afternoon.
A three-run second inning allowed the Bronx Bombers to establish a 4-2 lead early in the game as they continued to pile on the advantage. While the Angels drew closer in the sixth inning, New York put the nail in the coffin with a run in the seventh and two in the eighth.
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Paul Goldschmidt and Trent Grisham each recorded two runs and two hits. Meanwhile, Aaron Judge, Jasson Domínguez and DJ LeMahieu also clocked in runs toward the victory.
The win came after the reigning AL champions lost three straight to the Boston Red Sox and the previous three games to the Angels in this series. The Yankees will look to carry momentum when they face the Baltimore Orioles on Friday.
For three games during the skid, the Yankees failed to score a single run, losing 2-0 to Boston, 1-0 to Los Angeles and 4-0 again to the Angels. On Wednesday, the Yankees showed signs of life despite losing, 3-2, to their visitors from out west.
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“It’s great to win,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said postgame. “Really, there’s no panic or anything in that room. We understand, we go through it.
“It’s been an adverse week for us,” Boone added. “A week in which we’re pitching very well, doing a lot of things well, we made some mistakes along the way [and] broke out a little bit more these last few days but definitely good to salvage one and shake hands in the end. Hopefully, we get it going.”
After Wednesday’s game, Judge insisted that the team was doing their job, noting, “That’s baseball, you’re going to hit a little rut like this but you can’t give up.
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“Guys are pitching, they’re doing their job,” Judge added on Wednesday. “Sometimes we’re faltering on doing our job. But it’s tough to say. I think it just comes down to us not executing, us not doing our job. Maybe a little passive in certain situations. But all we can do is show up tomorrow ready to go.”
The much-needed win kept the Yankees from closing in on the franchise’s longest skid, which was 12 games in 1908. In 1982 and 2023, the team suffered nine-game losing streaks. The victory moves the Yankees to 43-31 on top of the NL East.
