Yankees’ offense busts out for 16 runs in rout of Blue Jays to snap four-game skid
NY Post
TORONTO — Nearly a week’s worth of frustration came pouring out of the Yankees’ bats in the sixth inning Friday night.
And they didn’t stop there.
After using a six-run rally to take the lead in the sixth, the Yankees blew the doors off with a seven-run ninth inning to snap their season-high four-game losing streak in emphatic fashion with a 16-5 win over the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.
“We always need a win,” said Juan Soto, who gave the Yankees the lead for good with a three-run shot in the sixth. “It’s been a little frustrating [lately], but it is what it is. We just forget about what happens in the past and we came out to play today and did our job.”
Putting together the kind of full-lineup outburst that they sorely needed, the Yankees (53-31) won for just the third time in their last 12 games to even the series entering the weekend.
Every member of the starting lineup recorded at least one hit and six of them had multi-hit nights as the Yankees pounded out 18 hits in total.
PHOENIX — You think of Tom Thibodeau, you think of defense.
It feels right that on the day we celebrate Aaron Judge joining an elite pantheon of athlete — the multi-time winner of the Most Valuable Player award — that we take a walk back to the beginning, when Judge was little more than a 6-foot-7, 280-pound curiosity who mostly specialized in striking out.
The NFL has warned its players to take precautions against a “transnational crime ring” that is suspected of orchestrating a number of break-ins of athletes’ homes including Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce.
Joel Embiid isn’t pleased with details of the 76ers’ team meeting after Monday’s loss being leaked, telling reporters after Wednesday’s road loss to the Grizzlies, “whoever leaked that is a real piece of s–t.”
PHOENIX — Jalen Brunson didn’t want to comment on the NBA looking into his father’s promotion and contract as a potential salary-cap circumvention, but the point guard certainly had a message to anybody questioning Rick Brunson’s coaching credentials.
PHOENIX — Wednesday brought some cautiously optimistic updates for the Knicks frontcourt.
The Greatest Escape in franchise history was perpetrated by Glen Sather, when the general manager extricated himself and the Rangers from the final five years of Scott Gomez’s contract by moving the $7,357,143-per-year center to Montreal on June 30, 2009 after two years in New York.
The Yankees publicly are on the same page: Hal Steinbrenner, like Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone before him, said that issues with the club’s fundamentals did not hover over the team all season.
The first day of the rest of Daniel Jones’ dwindling time with the Giants arrived Wednesday, with Jones in the building, in the meetings, on the practice field (although not doing very much) and not at all part of the game plan for the next game, relegated to a non-participant role for the remainder of the season.
There will be a little extra magic for Knicks-Spurs on Christmas Day.