Trent Grisham hit a key 2-run HR in the 2nd inning to put the Yanks up 3-2, Paul Goldschmidt followed with a HR to make it 4-2, and Carlos Rodon and the Yankee pen made it standup for a 7-3 win on a Hot, HUMID Thursday afternoon in the Bronx — as NY broke its 6-game losing streak.
The Yanks scored insurance runs in the 7th and 8th — Grisham getting on base and Cody Bellinger singling him home in the 7th, and Aaron Judge leading off the 8th with a double, Giancarlo Stanton walking behind him, and both coming home to score (Jasson Dominguez running for Stanton) on a groundout by Anthony Volpe and Austin Wells sac fly.
Rodon pitched a quality start — 6 innings, 3 runs (all on solo homers), and the Yankee pen of Mark Leiter Jr. Jonathan Loaisiga, and Devin Williams pitched a shutout inning each.
The Yanks couldn’t have drawn up the win any better.
“It’s been an adverse week for us — a week where we’re pitching really well; doing a lot of things well; made some mistakes along the way. Broke a little bit more these last couple of days,” said manager Aaron Boone afterwards. “Definitely good to salvage one and shake hands at the end and hopefully get it going.”
NY improves to 43-31, and go back to 2.5 games in 1st in the AL East ahead of Tampa and 3 over Toronto, which both lost. Boston remains 5 out. LA falls to 36-38.
1. Goldy & Bellinger Leadoff Hits Lead to 1-1 Tie
The game didn’t start out well for the Yanks as Mike Trout hit a solo HR in the top of the 1st off Carlos Rodon and NY was in an immediate 1-0 hole.
But Paul Goldschmidt led off the bottom of the 1st with a double to left off 6’2 lefty starter Tyler Anderson, and Cody Bellinger followed with an infield single to shortstop, Goldschmidt racing to 3rd.
Aaron Judge continued his 6-game slump by striking out, but Giancarlo Stanton hit the ball to 2nd to score the run and tie the game 1-1.
2. Grisham & Goldy HR’s in 2nd Put NY Up 4-2
Carlos Rodon gave the lead right back in the top of the 2nd, allowing a 1-out HR to Jo Adell — a 382-foot blast to right center, and it was 2-1 Angels. The 6-game losing streak was an elephant in the room.
Anthony Volpe led off the bottom of the 2nd with a walk, but Austin Wells hit into a double play and the Elephant was getting bigger.
But DJ LeMahieu singled, and Trent Grisham hit a HUGE momentum-swinging 406-foot homer to right and it was 3-2 Yanks. The Elephant disappeared.
Trent Tank ? pic.twitter.com/ZYkcZR9BNH
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) June 19, 2025
Next batter Paul Goldschmidt hit a 370-foot homer to left and it was 4-2 Yankees. What elephant?
Goldy got a hold of that one ? pic.twitter.com/8XobbaRCxg
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) June 19, 2025
3. Rodon a Quality Start
After allowing the solo HR’s in the 1st and 2nd, Carlos Rodon rope-a-doped the 3rd (leadoff single, strike out, hit a batter, line out, line out), and then got into rhythm — allowing only a 1-out walk in the 4th and pitching a 1-2-3 inning in the 5th.
He allowed a 1-out solo HR to Taylor Ward in the 6th to make it 4-3 NY, but got the next 2 batters to finish with a quality start: 6 IP, 4 hits, 3 runs (all HR’s), 7 K’s, 1 walk. He limited the damage on the HR’s and wins to go 9-5 3.10.
Carlos Rodón, Vicious 88mph Slider. ? pic.twitter.com/WTjGqDrXDy
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) June 19, 2025
4. Leiter Hold Court
With the score 4-3 NY, Mark Leiter Jr. made his 35th appearance of the year in the 7th — 1 behind Greg Weissert who leads the American League in apperances.
Leiter was great — a 1-2-3 inning — fly out, ground out, fly out.
5. Bellinger RBI Single Insurance Run in 7th
The Yanks tacked on a Huge insurance run in the bottom of the 7th off reliever Sam Bachman: Trent Grisham hit a 1-out double to right, and after Paul Goldschmidt struck out, Cody Bellinger got a CLUTCH 2-out single to right for a 5-3 game.
Cody Bellinger tacks on another run ?#YANKSonYES pic.twitter.com/6jbTFfNr7g
— YES Network (@YESNetwork) June 19, 2025
6. Loaisiga Holds Court
With the score 5-3 NY, Jonathan Loaisiga pitched the top of the 8th and looked good again, getting a ground out and line out for the first 2 outs, allowing a single to Mike Trout, and then getting Taylor Ward to ground out to shortstop.
7. Judge & Stanton Help Produce Insurance Runs in 8th
More good news for the Yanks: Aaron Judge ripped a double to center to start the 8th off reliever Hector Neris; Judge looking to break out of his mini slump. Giancarlo Stanton followed with a walk, and Jasson Dominguez came in to run for Giancarlo.
Rain Delay
With 1st and 2nd, nobody out in a 5-3 game — the rains came — a torrential thunderstorm — and the tarp came out. Then the sun came out as the rain was falling hard. A crazy, humid day that started out blue sky and ended with lots of violet thunderstorms rolling in with sun intermixed. Heavier thunderstorms came between 7 and 9pm after the game ended.
When play resumed, Brandon Burke came in to pitch, and Jazz Chisholm Jr. reached on a bunt single to load the bases with nobody out.
The Yanks then small-balled in 2 insurance runs — Anthony Volpe with a groundout to 2nd to score a run and make it 6-3, and Austin Wells with a sac fly to left to make it 7-3.
8. Devin Shuts It Down
And Devin Williams looked good in pitching a shutout 9th — strikeout of Travis d’Arnaud swinging, strikeout of Jo Adell swinging, hitting Lamonte Wade Jr. with a pitch (barely nicking him), and then striking out Luis Rengifo looking for the old ballgame.
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