After several days of slogging along with mostly makeshift lineups, the Yankees got back a couple of regulars as reinforcements on Saturday.
With Josh Donaldson and Giancarlo Stanton rejoining the revised batting order, new leadoff man Aaron Judge and the Yankees rattled off seven straight hits to start a game for the first time in nearly 32 years and cruised to a much-needed 10-3 victory over the Rays at the Stadium.
Taillon was charged with three runs on six hits, with one walk and eight strikeouts, over 99 pitches. Reliever Lou Trivino allowed two inherited runners to score on Harold Ramirez’s single in the eighth inning. The previous time the Yankees opened a game with at least seven consecutive hits was when they managed eight in a row in a 15-3 win over the Orioles at the old Stadium on Sept. 25, 1990. That game featured home runs by Roberto Kelly and Randy Velarde.
Judge finished 3-for-4, making it a career-best seven consecutive games in which he has reached base at least three times. That included the past two games out of the leadoff spot. That is the longest such streak by a Yankee since Mickey Mantle in June 1957. Robert Sabo for the NY POST DJ LeMahieu, Anthony Rizzo, Andrew Benintendi and Jose Trevino remain sidelined, but Stanton was back in the starting lineup for the first time since Monday after a foot issue. Batting second for the third time this season, Stanton followed Judge’s leadoff single to left with a liner to right for another hit, before Gleyber Torres opened the scoring with an RBI single to right.
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