{"id":20648,"date":"2021-10-06T13:54:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T13:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=20648"},"modified":"2021-10-06T13:54:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T13:54:48","slug":"yankees-rally-past-rangers-to-move-back-in-wild-card-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=20648","title":{"rendered":"Yankees rally past Rangers to move back in wild-card position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Gleyber Torres hit a tiebreaking double with two outs in the eighth inning, Gary Sanchez hit a long two-run homer later in the inning and  <a href=\"http:\/\/dewadmino.site\">daftar dewadominoqq<\/a> the New York Yankees moved back into the American League&#8217;s second wild-card spot with a 7-3 victory over the visiting Texas Rangers Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees (86-67) won their third straight after losing 15 of 22 and moved a half-game ahead of the Toronto Blue Jays for the second wild card.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Their lead may be short-lived as Toronto visits Minnesota to open a four-game series Thursday before the Yankees start a three-game series Friday at Fenway Park against the wild card-leading Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Gallo started the rally with a bloop double off Spencer Patton (1-2) into no-man&#8217;s land in left field as the Rangers were shifted over against their former slugger.<\/p>\n<p>On the next pitch, Torres ripped a double down the right field line that went to the fence to easily score Gallo.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>One pitch later, Torres gave the Yankees a 5-3 lead when he slid head-first into the plate as second baseman Yonny Hernandez booted an infield single by Gio Urshela.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez was also charged with an error as Torres got his left hand slightly ahead of the tag and the original call by plate umpire Jeremie Rehak was upheld following a replay review.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Three pitches later, Sanchez reached Monument Park beyond the center field fence for his 23rd homer to make it 7-3.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Before New York&#8217;s comeback, Kyle Higashioka hit a two-run double in the fifth and Aaron Judge scored the tying run in the sixth on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/search\/solr.aspx?q=wild%20pitch\">wild pitch<\/a> by Dennis Santana.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Willie Calhoun, Brock Holt and, Isiah Kiner-Falefa hit RBI singles off New <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesaurus.com\/browse\/York%27s%20Corey\">York&#8217;s Corey<\/a> Kluber but Texas (55-97) lost for the eighth time in 10 games.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Kluber, who no-hit the Rangers May 19 in Texas, allowed three runs on eight hits in 4 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>He struck out four and walked none before the Yankees used four relievers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>After Wandy Peralta and Clay Holmes followed Kluber, Chad Green (9-7) pitched a scoreless eighth that was aided by Sanchez throwing out Adolis Garcia trying to steal second.<\/p>\n<p>Aroldis Chapman finished up in a non-save situation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Texas left-hander Taylor Hearn allowed three runs on four hits in 5 1\/3 innings. He struck out three and walked four.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gleyber Torres hit a tiebreaking double with two outs in the eighth inning, Gary Sanch\u2026","protected":false},"author":8144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20649,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648\/revisions\/20649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}