The Yankees left their game-winning comebacks in Buffalo.
After using late-inning rallies to sweep a series from the Blue Jays during the week, the Yankees returned home Friday and ran out of magic. They came back from an early deficit, but couldn’t rally again later in the game, falling to the Athletics 5-3 in The Bronx.
In the first game with full-capacity allowed at Yankee Stadium since 2019, the season-high crowd of 24,037 — the bleachers were packed, but plenty of seats remained open elsewhere — tried to will the Yankees (36-33) to one more comeback in the final innings. But the AL West-leading A’s (44-27) hung onto the lead they got in the sixth inning, when Tony Kemp roped a three-run homer off Wandy Peralta, and Oakland snapped the Yankees’ three-game winning streak.
“We had the lead, they hit a homer and I felt like we were going to come back one way or another,” said DJ LeMahieu, whose two-run home run tied the game 2-2 in the third inning. “We just couldn’t put much together. But I think our confidence is growing as a group in those situations.”
Former Yankees first-round pick James Kaprielian, who was traded to Oakland in 2017 as part of the Sonny Gray deal, limited the Yankees to three runs on three hits over 5 ²/₃ innings while striking out seven.
Jameson Taillon countered by giving up two runs over 4 ²/₃ innings in a bounce-back effort from a brutal start against the Phillies, but he settled for a no-decision.
LeMahieu and Rougned Odor both homered off Kaprielian. Odor’s blast briefly gave the Yankees a 3-2 lead in the fifth. But Peralta gave it back a half inning later with two strikes, two outs and two men on as Kemp pounced on a slider that missed its intended location for the three-run homer.
“You miss your spot with big league hitters and you pay the price,” Peralta said through an interpreter.
Gleyber Torres and Giancarlo Stanton (in the sixth inning), Gary Sanchez (serenaded by the home crowd as a pinch-hitter in the seventh) and Gio Urshela (in the ninth) all had chances to tie the game with one swing. But each came up empty as the homestand began with a loss.
“Just couldn’t punch through tonight,” manager Aaron Boone said.
In Taillon’s first start since failing to make it out of the first inning last Saturday in Philadelphia, when he was unable to put batters away and gave up four runs in one-third of an inning, he had another two-strike slip-up in the opening frame Friday. After two quick outs, the right-hander got ahead 0-2 to Matt Olson before leaving a slider over the plate. Olson ripped it to the second deck in right field to put the A’s ahead 1-0.
Oakland doubled its lead in the third inning with some hard contact as Elvis Andrus drilled a double and scored on Mark Canha’s single.
But the Yankees wiped away the deficit in the bottom of the third. After Kaprielian had retired the first eight Yankees in order — including four strikeouts — he walked Brett Gardner on four pitches. LeMahieu then collected the Yankees’ first hit, cracking a two-run home run to the opposite field to tie the score.
Taillon was later pulled with two outs and one on in the fifth inning, not getting the chance to face Olson for a third time, but he was left encouraged by the adjustments he made in between starts. That included working out of the windup for the first time this season to help his rhythm and trying to stay more aggressive with two strikes.
“Tonight it was like, ‘I’ve got two strikes, it’s time to get nasty. I’m just going to be aggressive and freaking rip this pitch and I can live and die with it,’ ” Taillon said. “It was something to build off of. I did a lot of things tonight differently that I can take going forward.”
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