Yankees sweep away Royals for seventh straight victory New York Post

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Yankees have spent the past week playing the two worst groups within the American League — and they have taken gain of the want the schedule-makers gave them.

On Saturday, they swept a break up doubleheader in opposition to the Royals, winning the first game 7-3 and the nightcap 6-5 at Kauffman Stadium. The victories gave the Yankees a season-excessive seven-sport winning streak.

So even as their AL East foes tread water with the Red Sox dealing with the Astros and Tampa Bay playing Cleveland, the Yankees have taken command of the division on Memorial Day weekend with 11 wins in their beyond 12 games.

And whether they allowed a game-tying three-run homer, like J.A. Happ did within the opener, or played shoddy protection, as they did inside the 2nd game, it hardly appeared to count in opposition to every other woeful opponent.

Happ become masterful for 5 innings inside the first recreation before Kansas City’s Whit Merrifield hit a 3-run homer in the bottom of the sixth to tie the game.

Cameron Maybin had three RBIs in Game 2.getty Images

Despite the blow, the Yankees remained confident they’d nevertheless discover a way to win.

“One hundred percent,’’ Luke Voit stated. “It doesn’t be counted if I’m hitting or Gary [Sanchez], Gleyber [Torres], whoever. I sense like someone will hit a home run or power in a big hit.”

Voit responded Merrifield’s homer with a 470-foot blast for a two-run homer in the seventh. The domestic run changed into followed by Thairo Estrada’s two-run double within the 8th, as they retain to dinner party on lousy opposition.

The offense helped make a winner out of Happ, who became coming off his worst start of the season, whilst he allowed six runs in just 3 ²/₃ innings to the Orioles.

Against the Royals, he allowed just a bloop single to Merrifield inside the first before retiring 15 in a row. In six innings, he struck out 10 and didn’t stroll a batter.

He faltered within the 6th, whilst Billy Hamilton reached on a bunt hit and Nicky Lopez singled to left before Merrifield took Happ deep.

“I’m accountable for that,’’ Happ stated. “I turned into the one that threw it. A bunt, a slap via the hole and I threw a ball at [Merrifield’s] shoulders and he hit it out. It is on me and I receive that, however as a long way as how I threw the ball, I felt I pitched higher than the outcomes.’’

In the nightcap, Chad Green served as the opener for a 2d directly look and once more, the effects have been much less than perfect, as he gave up a run within the first.

Green turned into fortunate it wasn’t worse. Hunter Dozier hit an RBI double to proper. Clint Frazier dove for the ball and recovered in time to
make a strong throw domestic, where he got a diving Alex Gordon to stop the inning.

The Yankees answered inside the 2d with five runs off Jorge Lopez, with a two-run single from Austin Romine observed by means of a two-run double via Cameron Maybin — and some unpleasant Kansas City protection jumbled in. Lopez changed into knocked out earlier than he recorded an out in the 2nd.

Chance Adams, called up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre as the 26th-guy for the second recreation, entered within the second and gave up three runs in four innings — betrayed by his outfield defense.

The Royals scored a run within the third after Gardner dropped Adalberto Mondesi’s fly ball to middle, allowing Merrifield to come back around from first.

After Terrance Gore robbed the Yankees of a run inside the pinnacle of the fourth with a great trap of Kendrys Morales’ fly to deep center, Gardner and Frazier had more misadventures inside the bottom of the inning, costing the Yankees any other run. Gardner misplaced what must had been a habitual fly ball by Dozier and it fell for a double. Jorge Soler followed with a fly ball closer to the right-area corner and Frazier couldn’t get to it, scoring Dozier. Cam Gallagher singled to right to make it 6-4.

Jonathan Holder, Tommy Kahnle and Zack Britton pitched scoreless innings, Aroldis Chapman walked Hamilton, who was pinch-hitting and then threw the ball away looking to select him off. Hamilton advanced to 0.33.

Hamilton scored on Gallagher’s sacrifice fly and Chapman were given Gore to quit it.

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