{"id":121210,"date":"2025-09-05T06:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121210\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T06:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:29:06","slug":"yankees-beat-astros-lose-jazz-chisholm-jr-ahead-of-big-series-vs-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121210\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees beat Astros, lose Jazz Chisholm Jr. ahead of big series vs. Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2014 Carlos Rod\u00f3n pitched six strong innings to tie for the major league victory lead with 16, Ryan McMahon and Trent Grisham homered and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/new-york-yankees\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"new-york-yankees\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York Yankees<\/a> beat the Houston Astros 8-4 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>New York led by a run in the eighth when McMahon hit an RBI single before Grisham\u2019s three-run shot made it 8-3.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees took two of three in this series for their first series win against a team with a winning record since they swept Seattle from July 8-10.<\/p>\n<p>Rod\u00f3n (16-7) yielded three hits and two runs \u2014 one earned \u2014 to tie Milwaukee\u2019s Freddy Peralta for the victory leaf.<\/p>\n<p>Houston starter Cristian Javier (1-2) allowed six hits and four runs in 4 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Yordan Alvarez homered and tied a career high with four hits for a second straight night for the Astros. He hit an RBI single in the ninth and Houston loaded the bases with one out but David Bednar struck out Carlos Correa and Christian Walker to end it.<\/p>\n<p>An RBI single by McMahon put the Yankees up 1-0 in the second. A solo home run by Alvarez tied it with two outs in the third.<\/p>\n<p>McMahon hit a solo homer in New York&#8217;s three-run fifth that made it 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros added a run in sixth with the help of two New York errors before Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez\u2019s pinch-hit homer made it 4-3 in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>New York second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. left in the fourth inning with bruises to his knees. The team said he bruised both knees and that the injuries happened on different plays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s anything major, at least that\u2019s the sense right now,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said. \u201cBut we\u2019ll see how he\u2019s doing tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chisholm was banged up in a collision with Jose Altuve to end the third when he tagged him out as he was attempting to steal second base.<\/p>\n<p>He grabbed at his left knee before walking gingerly off the field after the play. But he remained in the game to bat in the top of the fourth and struck out. Chisholm was replaced by Jos\u00e9 Caballero for the bottom of the inning.<\/p>\n<p>Boone said bruised his right knee fielding a hard grounder hit by Ram\u00f3n Ur\u00edas to end the second inning.<\/p>\n<p>There was a delay in the ninth inning after Taylor Trammell doubled and Boone asked officials to check his bat. Both managers talked to home plate umpire Adrian Johnson and he then talked to the replay office in New York. Johnson eventually handed the bat to an official sitting near home plate and play resumed.<\/p>\n<p>Grisham\u2019s home run that put the game out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>Grisham has three homers, including two grand slams, in the last week.<\/p>\n<p>New York RHP Cam Schlittler (2-2, 2.61 ERA) opposes RHP Kevin Gausman (8-10, 3.75) in the first of three games against the Blue Jays at home Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros haven\u2019t announced a starter for the opener of a nine-game road on Friday night at Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 Carlos Rod\u00f3n pitched six strong innings to tie for the major league victory lead with 16,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-121210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}