NEW YORK — Aaron Judge got one home run closer to Roger Maris, Gerrit Cole mowed down the Twins with 14 strikeouts and the decimated Yankees swept a doubleheader in the Bronx.
The Yanks, playing without Giancarlo Stanton, DJ LeMahieu, Anthony Rizzo and Josh Donaldson for various reasons, were lucky — very lucky — to win the first game, 5-4.
The extra innings were a mind-numbing display of offensive ineptitude from the Yanks and Twins, who squandered multiple opportunities before Oswaldo Cabrera ended the four-hour clunker with a game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the 12th.
