{"id":450819,"date":"2026-09-02T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450819\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:34:08","slug":"yankees-strike-back-beat-angels-on-day-team-sale-is-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450819\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees strike back, beat Angels on day team sale is announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spencer Jones homered and drove in three runs, Jazz Chisholm Jr. also went deep and finished with three hits, and the New York Yankees pulled away Tuesday night for a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/gameday\/yankees-vs-angels\/2026\/09\/01\/823984\/final\/box\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">7-3 victory<\/a> over the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jones and Chisholm launched back-to-back homers to give Gerrit Cole a 3-0 lead before even throwing a pitch in his latest return home. New York moved four games ahead of rival Boston for the top American League wild card and remained 4 1\/2 games behind first-place Tampa Bay in the AL East. <\/p>\n<p>A day that began with Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, led by Rams owner Stan Kroenke, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/angels\/story\/2026-09-01\/stan-kroenke-buys-angels-ending-arte-morenos-troubled-tenure\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reaching an agreement to acquire<\/a> a controlling interest in the Angels from owner <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2026-09-01\/angels-exuberant-about-rams-owner-stan-kroenke-buying-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arte Moreno<\/a> ended with the struggling Angels losing for the ninth time in 11 games. <\/p>\n<p>Cole (8-7) gave up three runs and eight hits in 5 1\/3 innings, striking out five and walking one. Brent Headrick, Paul Blackburn and John Schreiber held the Angels to one hit the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>Angels starter Grayson Rodriguez (4-6) gave up four runs and seven hits in six innings, striking out seven and walking two.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels trailed 4-1 when Wade Meckler, who had three hits, opened the sixth with a single. Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros singled and Christian Moore sliced a two-run triple to right field that eluded a diving Jones and trimmed the deficit to 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>Cole was pulled in favor of Headrick, who stranded Moore by striking out pinch-hitter Jose Siri and getting Oswald Peraza to fly out.<\/p>\n<p>New York pushed the lead to 6-3 in the eighth when Jones walked, Chisholm singled and Trent Grisham, mired in a two-for-42 slump, fouled off two bunt attempts before hitting an RBI single. Ryan McMahon loaded the bases with a bunt single and Paul Goldschmidt hit a sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n<p>Consecutive singles by Cody Bellinger, who had three of New York\u2019s 14 hits, Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. and Jones made it 7-3 in the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees took a 3-0 lead in the first. Bellinger singled before Jones hit a two-run homer \u2014 his second longball in two nights \u2014 and Chisholm followed with an opposite-field shot into the left-field corner.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Rice singled in the third, went to third on Bellinger\u2019s single and scored on Garc\u00eda\u2019s double-play grounder for a 4-0 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels pulled to 4-1 in the bottom half when Zach Neto singled, stole second and scored on Meckler\u2019s two-out single.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Yankees RHP Cam Schlittler (12-6, 2.09 ERA) faces LHP Reid Detmers (4-8, 3.54) in Wednesday night\u2019s series finale.<\/p>\n<p>DiGiovanna writes for the Associated Press. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spencer Jones homered and drove in three runs, Jazz Chisholm Jr. also went deep and finished with three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,1426,108688,178249,178248,57048,28085,423,107023,1049,11859,5814,5223,2668,98916,72637],"class_list":["post-450819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-angels","tag-brent-headrick","tag-bunt-attempt","tag-chisholm","tag-christian-moore","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-game","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-hit","tag-jones","tag-lead","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-run","tag-two-run","tag-wade-meckler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}