Yankees 12-8 Cardinals (Aug 16, 2025) Sport Recap
ST. LOUIS — — Ben Rice homered and tied a profession excessive with seven RBI, Aaron Decide additionally went deep in his first multi-hit sport because the All-Star break and the New York Yankees beat the St. Louis Cardinals 12-8 on Saturday night time.
Trent Grisham singled 4 instances and scored 4 runs, and Ryan McMahon hit his first homer since being acquired by the Yankees to beat a shaky begin by Max Fried (13-5).
Masyn Winn hit a three-run homer and Nolan Gorman had a two-run shot for St. Louis as Fried yielded a number of homers for the third time this season.
Fried notched his 1,000th profession strikeout when he fanned Alec Burleson instantly after Winn’s second-inning homer, however he exited after yielding seven runs on eight hits in five-plus innings. Gorman’s 389-foot blast ended his outing with no outs within the sixth.
After two-out infield singles by Winn and Burleson within the ninth, David Bednar entered and induced Iván Herrera to foul out for his twentieth save.
Sonny Grey (11-6) allowed six runs on 9 hits in 5 innings as St. Louis misplaced its fourth in a row.
Rice had three of New York’s 15 hits and completed a triple in need of the cycle.
In a matchup of aces, there was loads of offense regardless of the Yankees taking part in with out Giancarlo Stanton (decrease physique soreness) and Cody Bellinger (sickness), whereas the Cardinals rested Brendan Donovan (left foot) and Willson Contreras (proper foot) for a second straight sport.
Decide led off the third along with his thirty ninth house run, which bounced off the highest of the wall and into the entrance row of the right-field bleachers. Decide, who has performed his total profession with the Yankees, has now homered towards each different main league staff.
He additionally had an RBI double within the first and drew two walks. Decide hadn’t delivered a number of hits in a sport since July 13 towards the Cubs.
After placing New York forward with a three-run homer off Grey within the fourth, Rice added a three-run double off reliever Kyle Leahy within the sixth to increase the result in 9-5.
With a run-scoring single within the seventh, Rice matched his RBI whole from July 6, 2024, when he homered 3 times in a 14-4 win over Boston.
The Yankees go for the sweep Sunday, once they ship RHP Will Warren (7-5, 4.34 ERA) up towards St. Louis RHP Miles Mikolas (6-9, 4.97).
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