Judge hits Grand Slam at 30HR of season, Yankees pound Pirates

Pittsburgh (AP) —Aaron Judge hit a grand slam with his major league-leading 30 home runs, and the New York Yankees routed the Pittsburgh Pirates 16-0 on Wednesday night, splitting the two-game Interleague series.

Luis Severino threw 6 innings and Aaron Hicks also scored 11 runs in the 8th and 9th innings, turning this into a laugh and recording a grand slam.

The judge hit 30 home runs before the All-Star Break in his career when he turned on the pitch from Pittsburgh’s Relief Manny Banueros (acquired from New York last weekend) and sent it screaming to the left for the eighth time. Became the first Yankees player to hit-his third career slam field sheet.

Hicks cleared the base for the ninth time when he played against Josh Van Mitter, a Pirates utility infielder who had made his third relief appearance in the season.

Giancarlo Stanton, Josh Donaldson, Joey Gallo and Kyle Higashioka also hit New York home runs, pushing the Yankees’ season total to 139 home runs.

Severino (5-3) allowed four hits while hitting three without a walk in order to win for the first time in more than a month. The right-handed player gave Ke’Bryan Hayes a single and Bryan Reynolds a double, retiring 12 straights and 18 of the last 20 batters he faced after starting his first bottom.

The victory ended two skids in New York. New York set the Yankees to the highest major record in the second half of the season, making the second best start in franchise history with 81 games. Pitching and enough power.

Donaldson and Garo deepened Mitch Keller (2-6) twice in the sixth three-pitch span.

Donaldson’s seventh season was a successful entry into the left field. A topic from the crowd featuring a healthy number of Yankees fans amplified by the team’s first visit to Pittsburgh since 2017 is struggling to get a vote of trust from manager Aaron Boone before the match. Is a concourse far beyond the wall in the center right, and became 4-0 in the 10th season.

The judge’s laser (the ball exit speed was 115 mph) cleared the base for the eighth time and finished the three-hit performance. DJ LeMahieu released three singles and drove with two runs of the Yankees. The Yankees improved to 3-3 on a road trip of 10 games in 4 cities after recording the best 22 hits of the season.

Reynolds had two of Pittsburgh’s four hits, but Pirates could hardly get together against Severino and the three New York rescuers.

Keller got into trouble with six innings, got out of trouble and allowed four runs in the season. It recorded 10 hits with a walk and seven strikeouts. He was gone by the time New York overwhelmed the overburdened bullpen in Pittsburgh.

Trainers room

Yankees: Due to his stiff back, he removed 1B Anthony Rizzo from the lineup with two consecutive wins. Boone said Wednesday’s Rizzo was “definitely better” than Tuesday.

Pirates: OF Greg Allen (Hamstring) was scheduled to begin a rehab mission in Class A Bradenton. Allen, who claimed an exemption from the Yankees last fall, hasn’t played throughout the season after adjusting his left hamstring during spring training and injuring his right hamstring during rehab.

Move

The Yankees have revived relief Miguel Castro from the restricted list and appointed relief Ryan Weber.

Pittsburgh has revived rescuer Jerry Delos Santos from the COVID-19 list. Pirates chose Relief Come View for Triple A Indianapolis and appointed Austin Brice for Relief.

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Yankees: Heading to Boston for the first time this season, starting a four-game weekend series at Fenway Park on Thursday night. Gerrit Cole (7-2, 2.99 ERA) will face Boston’s Josh Winkovsky (3-2, 3.12) at the opener.

Pirates: Play day and night doubleheaders in Cincinnati on Thursday. Roansy Contreras (2-2, 4.02) will start in Game 1 and Bryse Wilson (1-4, 7.49) will start in Game 2.