SAN FRANCISCO _ Saying the Yankees have been injury-plagued this season is like saying the Giants are a bad baseball team.
The words themselves still don't quite capture it.
On a perfect sun-splashed afternoon by the Bay inside Oracle Park, the Giants glorious home, those two worlds intersected in the Yankees' 11-5 victory in front of 34,540.
Domingo German pitched five terrific innings before being touched up in the sixth, though by that point the Yankees were cruising 8-0 because of production from another makeshift lineup, led by three hits and two RBIs by Luke Voit and a pair of two-run homers by Gleyber Torres and Gary Sanchez.
But the Yankees (17-11), already with a fully stocked injured list of 13, also saw two key players depart from the win, the club's 12th in 15 games.
DJ LeMahieu, who fouled a ball off his right knee in Friday's win here, left in the third inning with inflammation in the knee. X-rays were negative.
Gio Urshela, a standpoint at third base with Miguel Andujar out, left after getting hit by an 89 cutter thrown by Nick Vincent in the fifth inning. Urshela, 2-for-2 to that point in the game to raise his average to .351, was sent for X-rays, which also came back negative, the club said. Thairo Estrada replaced LeMahieu at second and Tyler Wade, who started the game in left, shifted to third. Cameron Maybin, acquired from the Indians on Thursday and pressed into duty Friday and Saturday, took over for Wade in left.
The bench was so short, Aaron Boone sent up a pitcher, J.A. Happ, to pinch hit for German when his turn came up in the seventh (Happ grounded to second).
German, who came in with the fourth-lowest ERA in the AL (1.75) and second-lowest WHIP in the majors (0.82), allowed all of one hit entering the seventh before the Giants (11-17) scored four runs to make it 8-4.
The Yankees, now 6-1 on a nine-game, three-city trip that continues Tuesday night in Phoenix, had 14 hits and they struck early against Giants right-hander Dereck Rodriguez, the 26-year-old right-hander who is the son of Hall of Famer Pudge Rodriguez.
LeMahieu, who came in having reached base multiple times in four straight games, led off with a single. Voit then extended his MLB-best on-base streak to 39 straight games with a walk, continuing the second-longest on-base streak by a Yankee since the start of 2005 (Mark Teixeira reached in 42 straight games from June 6-July 26, 2010).
Brett Gardner walked to load the bases for Sanchez, giving the catcher a shot at a grand slam a second straight game. Sanchez instead hit a ground shot that should have been a double-play ball but shortstop Brandon Crawford booted it for an error, which made it 1-0. Torres hit into a 4-6-3 double play, though Voit came in on the play to make it 2-0.
After a 1-2-3, nine-pitch bottom of the first, the Yankees, helped by some comically bad play by the Giants, added on. Urshela, who came in hitting .327 with a .878 OPS in 19 games, led off with a single and Tyler Wade walked. German struck out and LeMahieu flied out but, with Voit at the plate, Giants catcher Erik Kratz fired one back to the mound that Rodriguez wasn't expecting. The ball sailed past the surprised pitcher and resulted in a two-base error. Voit then beat the shift with a grounder to the right side that found right field, the two-run single making it 4-0.
Torres, 7 for his last 22 coming in but without a homer since April 16, made it 6-0 in the third, crushing a 1-and-0 fastball to left-center for his fifth homer. Sanchez preceded the hit with a walk. His two-run homer sixth, Sanchez's eighth, made it 8-0.
