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Yankees pour it on after rain delay in rout of Mariners - Newsday

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On a rainy night in the Bronx that included a 35-minute fifth-inning delay, the Yankees did more than just stay afloat.

They poured it on the Mariners, coasting to a 10-3 win in front of 38,641 at the Stadium.

The Yankees’ three-week rut may not be all the way in the rearview mirror just yet, but Tuesday they resembled the club that spent 100 days in first place in the AL East — not the one that entered the day as losers of six of their last seven games and 16 of 23.

The Yankees (50-41), who had 13 hits, scored five runs in the sixth inning to take a 6-0 lead, the damage coming on a three-run shot by Giancarlo Stanton (2-for-4) and a two-run homer by Austin Wells. It was Wells’ third straight game with a home run.

Aaron Judge went 2-for-5 with his 34th home run, a solo shot to the short porch in right in the seventh. Cody Bellinger and Paul Goldschmidt each went 3-for-4.

“To put up two big innings against them, on a team that’s been on a pretty good roll here as far as keeping teams off the board,” Aaron Boone said. “So a really good night, and it all started with Will Warren.”

Warren (6-4, 4.70 ERA) threw 85 pitches over 5 2⁄3 scoreless innings, allowing four hits and two walks and striking out four.

The Yankees earned their first back-to-back wins since beating the Reds on June 25 and the Athletics on June 27. On Wednesday, they will search for their first three-game winning streak since sweeping the Royals from June 10-12.

Warren bounced back from his disastrous start in Toronto last Wednesday, when he put the Yankees in a hole by allowing seven earned runs before recording the second out of the first inning. The righty lasted four innings and gave up eight earned runs and 10 hits in the eventual 11-9 loss to the Blue Jays.

“I think you take every outing and learn from it, good or bad,” Warren said. “Obviously, the bad ones hurt a little more. You can take a little more from those.”

Warren exited with runners on first and second and two outs in the sixth inning Tuesday, but Tim Hill entered and got pinch-hitter Donovan Solano to fly out to center.

The Mariners (48-43) put their first runner in scoring position in the fifth inning, when the rain noticeably picked up.

Seattle put runners on first and third and J.P. Crawford worked a 2-and-1 count with two outs, but crew chief Vic Carapazza called for the tarp in the middle of the at-bat at 8:15 p.m.

But Warren, who still pitched after the delay, needed only one pitch after the rain delay to end the inning, getting Crawford to ground out to Goldschmidt at first base.

“I think we [do] a good job of prepping,” Warren said. “We kind of like restart the game, if you will. Weight room stuff, and then get ready to go once we have an idea how long the delay is going to last.”

The Yankees pounced on Mariners righthander Logan Gilbert (2-3, 3.88), who allowed one baserunner in his first four innings but did not have as much fortune after the delay.

Judge hit Gilbert’s first pitch of the sixth inning for a single and Bellinger followed with one on the third. Stanton’s homer to right, on an 85.7-mph slider, gave the Yankees a 4-0 lead.

“Obviously, there’s no place that can hold Big G,” Boone said.

Gilbert exited two batters later after giving up a one-out double to Goldschmidt. Wells sent the first pitch from righty reliever Casey Legumina into the rightfield bleachers to make it 6-0.

The Yankees put their first runner in scoring position in the fifth after a single by Goldschmidt — their second hit — and a walk by Wells. Anthony Volpe moved Goldschmidt to third with a fielder’s choice.

Oswald Peraza’s ensuing two-out infield single — a ball to the right side that second baseman Cole Young tracked down but was unable to field cleanly — scored Goldschmidt to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.

Bellinger gave the Yankees their first baserunner with a two-out single up the middle in the fourth. He was stranded at first after Stanton struck out swinging.

The Mariners scored their three runs in the eighth inning off Geoff Hartlieb, including a two-run shot by Cal Raleigh for his MLB-leading 36th home run, two more than Judge.

Said Boone: “You got two guys in the mid-30s at this point of the season, just a testament to how special the season the both of them are in the midst of.”

Ben Dickson

Ben Dickson joined Newsday’s high school sports staff in 2023 after graduating from Maryland, where he covered several of the Terrapins' teams.

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