Yanks Survive J-Rod Grand Slam; Torres 11th Inning Walk-off

 Carlos Rodón pitched the Yankees to a 5-1 lead through six innings of 2-hit, 7 strikeout ball, but no sooner had he turned it over to the pen than Julio Rodríguez blasted a grand slam home run in the 7th to give the Mariners a 6-5 lead. The Yankees had to rally from behind in the bottom of the 9th, 10th and 11th innings before Gleyber Torres' 2-run walk off homer gave them the 9-8 win.

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The average score of our first six Statis-Pro games of the season was 6-3, but the Twins 14-12 win against the Astros and this 9-8 Yankees win over the Mariners makes the average score for the moment a whopping 8-6.

We took the top nine AL teams and divided them into three pods of East, South and West. The win puts the Yankees in 1st in the Eastern Pod at 2-1. Each team has two 2-game series outside their pod to go through their 4-man rotation once, then each will go through their rotation one more time in a round robin against the other two teams in the pod. Here are the mini-standings now followed by the box score from the Yankees 11 inning win.

East Pod

NY Yankees 2-1  - at Seattle (Cortes at Gilbert)

Baltimore 0-1 – host Cleveland (Kremer hosts Williams), then 2 vs Texas

Toronto 0-2 – at Seattle (Berrios at Miller), at Tampa (Kukuchi at Littell)

 

West Pod

Cleveland 1-0 – at Baltimore (Williams at Kremer), 2 vs Tampa (Bibee, Allen)

Minnesota 1-1 – at Houston (Paddock at Brown), at Texas (Ober at Gray)

Seattle 1-1 – host Toronto (Miller host Barrios), host NY Yankees (Gilbert host Cortes)

 

South Pod

Texas 1-0 – host Minnesota (Gray host Ober), 2 vs. Baltimore

Tampa 1-0 – host Toronto (Littell host Kikuchi), 2 vs Cleveland

Houston 1-2 – host Minnesota (Brown host Paddock)

 

After games listed, each team will play the other two teams in their pod twice each.

 

NY Yankees 9-8 (11 inn)	1	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Seattle	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	1	1	8
NY Yankees	0	2	0	3	0	0	1	1	2	9
Seattle	Cht	SP	OPS	SP	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	EB
Julio Rodríguez	RP	CF	0.841	A/AAA	7	1	2	4	0	sb,GS
Cal Raleigh	SP	C	0.761	E/D	4	1	1	0	1
Mitch Garver	RP	DH	0.757	E/D	4	0	0	0	2
Ty France	RN	1b	0.754	E/D	6	0	1	1	0
Jorge Polanco	SP	3b	0.742	D/C	5	2	0	0	1
J.P. Crawford	LN	SS	0.736	E/C	5	0	1	0	0
Luke Raley	LP	rf	0.729	B/B	5	1	2	0	0
Mitch Haniger	RP	LF	0.723	E/D	5	2	1	0	1	2b
Josh Rojas	LN	2b	0.659	B/A	5	1	1	0	1	2b
Totals	0.196	Bat			46	8	9	5	6
Mariners	Th	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Dec
George Kirby	R	2'-8	5	4	2	2	5	3
Austin Voth	R	2'-4	0.3	2	3	3	1	1
Ryne Stanek	R	2'-6	0.7	1	0	0	1	1
Tyson Miller	R	2'-4	1	0	0	0	0	1
Gabe Speier	L	4'-7	1	0	0	0	0	2
Andrés Muñoz	R	2'-9	1	1	1	0	1	0
Tayler Saucedo	L	2'-4	1	1	1	0	0	0
Trent Thornton	R	2'-4	0.3	1	2	1	0	0	L
			10.3	10	9	6	8	8
NY Yankees	Cht	SP	OPS	SP	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	EB
Anthony Volpe	RN	SS	0.71	A/AA	6	0	0	0	0
Juan Soto	LP	3b	0.96	D/B	2	0	2	0	2
Oswald Peraza	RN	ph-3b	0.703	B/A	1	2	0	0	0	sb
Aaron Judge	RP	RF	0.954	E/C	5	0	0	0	1
Gleyber Torres	RP	2b	0.797	C/B	5	1	1	2	1	gwHR
Giancarlo Stanton	RP	DH	0.776	E/E	5	1	1	0	0
Anthony Rizzo	LP	1b	0.759	E/D	3	1	1	0	2	2b,hpb
Alex Verdugo	LN	CF	0.745	C/C	3	3	0	0	1	hpb
Austin Wells	LP	C	0.709	C/C	5	1	1	2	0	2b
Trent Grisham	LP	CF	0.727	B/A	4	0	3	3	0	sb
Jose Trevino	RN	ph	0.648	D/D	1	0	1	1	0
Jasson Domínguez	SN	pr-of	0.692	A/B	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	0.250	Bat			40	9	10	8	7
Yankees	Th	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Dec
Carlos Rodón	L	2'-9	6	2	1	1	3	7
Luis Gil	R	2'-6	0.7	1	3	3	2	1
Caleb Ferguson	L	4'-7	0	1	2	2	1	0
Luke Weaver	R	2'-6	1.3	3	0	0	1	1
Ian Hamilton	R	2'-6	1	2	0	0	1	0
Clay Holmes	R	2'-7	2	0	2	0	0	1	W
			11	9	8	6	8	10