NEW YORK — They may be the Bronx Bombers, but Thursday the Yankees put on a showcase of starting pitching. After Nestor Cortes threw seven scoreless in the Yankees’ afternoon 6-1 win over the Angels, Jameson Taillon took a perfect game into the eighth inning of the Yankees’ 2-1 win in the nightcap at Yankee Stadium.
The Yankees (36-15) swept the doubleheader and the series from the Angels (27-25), who have now lost eight in a row. The Yankees have won seven of their last nine games and regained the best record in baseball.
Anthony Rizzo hit a pinch-hit, two-run single with the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth inning and Clay Holmes survived a shaky ninth to give the Yankees the come-from-behind win in the nightcap. In the first game, the Yankees lived up to their Bombers’ nickname with four home runs, including a leadoff homer from Matt Carpenter, a major league-leading 19th from Aaron Judge, a 10th on the season for Gleyber Torres (who had nine all of last year) and a tack-on for DJ LeMahieu.
