NEW YORK — Saturday’s pitching duel between the Yankees’ Gerrit Cole and the Blue Jays’ Alek Manoah lived up to the hype.
But after both starters departed, Anthony Volpe and DJ LeMahieu stole the spotlight.
Volpe, a 21-year-old rookie, scored the first runs of the game in the eighth inning when he took a Yimi Garcia fastball the other way and over the right-field fence at Yankee Stadium. The two-run home run, the second of Volpe’s young career, gave the Yankees a 2-0 lead after Manoah spent most of the afternoon shoving.
The Blue Jays answered right back in the ninth when pinch-hitter Danny Jansen hit his own two-run shot. Just like that, a game that had previously been starved of scoring was tied again.
But the Yankees prevented extra innings with a ninth-inning rally, capped by a pinch-hit, walk-off single from LeMahieu. The hit sealed the deal on a 3-2 win for the Bombers.
