Stanton Slugs Yankees Past A’s 8-2, Cole Wins Third Straight

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Night aft nighttime during this memorable winning streak, Aaron Boone is asked astir what’s going truthful good for his Yankees. He keeps coming backmost to the equilibrium of accumulation from everybody.

New York provided different awesome illustration of precisely that.

Giancarlo Stanton homered for a 4th consecutive game, Aaron Judge deed a three-run changeable successful beforehand of friends and family, and the Yankees extended their champion winning streak successful astir 60 years to 13 by slugging past the Oakland Athletics 8-2 connected Friday night.

“I would conscionable accidental the absorption successful that room, the intent successful that country is what you privation it to be,” Boone said. “I spell backmost to what I’ve said, I deliberation the champion portion astir it is the galore contributions we’re getting from the full roster.”

Stanton’s 25th homer was crushed an estimated 472 feet supra a suite level into the 2nd platform of left-center, 1 of the longer drives astatine the Coliseum successful caller memory. It gave Stanton six homers successful his past 9 games, and Luke Voit connected 1 retired aboriginal successful the fourth.

Gerrit Cole (13-6) struck retired 9 with 2 walks implicit six scoreless innings, allowing six hits to triumph his 3rd consecutive start. Working connected an other time of rest, helium reached 200 strikeouts for the 4th clip successful his career.

“Any clip you tin propulsion the grounds books with this organization, it’s astir apt thing special,” Cole said, noting determination has been immoderate bully luck involved, too. “But there’s a batch near retired determination for america to beryllium desired truthful we’ve got to conscionable support plugging away.”

Judge’s 28th homer chased A’s starter Sean Manaea, who became frustrated earlier helium adjacent threw his archetypal transportation erstwhile umpires checked his mitt and helium had to swap it out. The pitcher tossed the mitt into the dugout arsenic chap starter Cole Irvin hustled to retrieve a spare mitt from the clubhouse.

Manaea believed the contented was that his airy greenish mitt had faded implicit the twelvemonth and whitethorn person been excessively adjacent successful colour to the basesball.

“That was wholly uncalled for successful my opinion,” manager Bob Melvin said. “He’s utilizing it the full year. We spot antithetic colour gloves. It went from a greenish mitt to a greenish glove. Waits ’til helium throws each his warmup pitches past makes him instrumentality his mitt off.”

Kyle Higashioka added a two-run homer successful the ninth for New York (76-52), which owns the club’s longest winning streak since different tally of 13 consecutive victories from Sept. 1-12, 1961. The Yankees are a season-best 24 games implicit .500.

Matt Olson deed a two-run azygous for Oakland aft Cole gave mode to Joely Rodríguez.

Manaea (8-9) went 0-3 successful 5 August starts — nary going further than 5 innings.

The fading A’s mislaid their sixth consecutive crippled and Melvin said earlier Friday they held a squad gathering aft Tuesday afternoon’s nonaccomplishment to Seattle.

“Nobody’s hitting the panic button,” Tony Kemp said.

The crippled drew 22,463 connected a nighttime a Star Wars-themed drone amusement played postgame.

CHEER SQUAD

Judge, who grew up successful the tiny Central Valley municipality of Linden, expected immoderate 30-40 fans successful the seats down the Yankees dugout.

The slugger chatted pregame with erstwhile A’s lefty Dallas Braden, who similar Judge takes pridefulness successful his akin Stockton roots.

“He’s a 209er,” Braden said of the 6-foot-7 star, referencing their country code. “He stands arsenic gangly arsenic the maize stalks successful Linden.”

Judge added an RBI azygous successful the ninth and had 3 hits and 4 RBIs.

MOVING UP

With his adjacent victory, Boone volition necktie Buck Showalter (313) for ninth spot connected the Yankees’ all-time managerial wins list.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Yankees: SS Gleyber Torres (sprained near thumb) is connected people to statesman a rehab duty Sunday. … RHP Luis Severino, who had Tommy John country successful precocious February 2020, played drawback retired to 60-70 feet successful New York aft being cleared to resume his throwing program. … RHP Michael King, dealing with a bruised mediate digit connected his pitching hand, threw 20 pitches astatine Double-A Somerset and is adjacent to opening a rehab assignment.

Athletics: OF Seth Brown tested affirmative for COVID-19 and went connected the injured list. He is experiencing symptoms. Contract tracing produced nary contiguous concerns for further affirmative tests. … The A’s recalled RHP Daulton Jefferies from Triple-A Las Vegas. … RF Stephen Piscotty had season-ending near wrist country to stabilize a ligament to the bone. Piscotty volition beryllium successful a splint for six weeks. The anticipation is helium volition beryllium acceptable for the commencement of outpouring training. … RHP Chris Bassitt returned to the Bay Area connected Friday pursuing facial country successful Chicago, wherever helium was deed with a enactment thrust past week. The cognition repaired the pitcher’s cheekbone that was fractured successful 3 places. His close oculus is unfastened again and Bassitt volition beryllium re-evaluated aboriginal adjacent week by a section optometrist and integrative surgeon, according to diversion trainer Nick Paparesta. … RHP Mike Fiers threw a 20-pitch bullpen league of each fastballs successful his archetypal clip throwing disconnected a mound arsenic helium works backmost from a sprained pitching elbow. He is scheduled again for Tuesday.

UP NEXT

LHP Nestor Cortes (2-1, 2.56 ERA) pitches Saturday connected 7 days’ remainder for the Yankees other RHP Frankie Montas (9-9, 3.84), winless implicit his past 4 starts since a roadworthy triumph against the Angels connected July 29.

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