NEW YORK (AP) — Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit a pair of two-run homers, Trent Grisham additionally went deep twice and the New York Yankees beat the Boston Purple Sox 7-2 on Sunday night time to stop a four-game sweep.
Carlos Rodón allowed one hit in 5 2/3 innings because the Yankees moved inside a half-game of rival Boston for the highest American League wild card. They’re 5 1/2 video games behind first-place Toronto within the AL East.
Boston outscored New York 19-4 within the first three video games of the sequence and was on the lookout for its first sweep of no less than 4 video games within the Bronx since 1939.
After dropping eight straight to the Purple Sox, the Yankees improved to 2-8 within the season sequence.
Grisham hit solo homers in consecutive at-bats off Dustin Might (7-10).
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