NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer in the first inning, Ben Rice went deep for the fourth straight game in the second and the New York Yankees beat the reeling Kansas City Royals 7-0 to complete a three-game sweep on Sunday following a long rain delay.<\/p>\n
Ryan Weathers (1-2) bounced back from allowing four homers to the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday and permitted five hits in 7 1\/3 innings for his first win with the Yankees. The left-hander struck out eight and walked one.<\/p>\n
Trent Grisham added a three-run homer in the fifth for the Yankees, who went deep nine times in the series and won the final two games by a combined 20-4 margin after their previous five victories were decided in the final at-bat.<\/p>\n
After the start was pushed back 2 hours, 45 minutes, Judge gave New York a 2-0 lead against Cole Ragans (0-4) by belting a first-pitch curveball onto the netting above Monument Park in center field. Judge\u2019s 425-foot drive was his sixth homer in eight games and fifth in the first inning this season.<\/p>\n
Rice batted leadoff for the first time this year and gave the Yankees a 4-0 lead by sending a fastball into the right-field seats for a solo shot. It was his eighth homer, one behind Judge for the team lead, and his third off a left-handed pitcher this season.<\/p>\n
Judge and Rice became the third set of Yankees teammates with at least eight homers each through the first 22 games of a season. Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra did it in 1956 before Judge and Anthony Rizzo also achieved the feat in 2022.<\/p>\n
Ragans tied a career high by allowing seven runs in 4 1\/3 innings. The left-hander also issued a career-high eight walks and allowed four hits.<\/p>\n
Kansas City lost its seventh straight and for the 10th time in 12 games. The Royals also lost their 11th consecutive game to the Yankees since Game 2 of their 2024 AL Division Series.<\/p>\n
Salvador Perez was back in Kansas City\u2019s lineup after getting a rare day off Saturday and went 0 for 4.<\/p>\n
Royals: RHP Seth Lugo (1-1, 1.48 ERA) opposes RHP Kyle Bradish (1-2, 5.49) in the opener of a three-game series against the visiting Orioles on Monday.<\/p>\n
Yankees: RHP Luis Gil (0-1, 7.00 ERA) opens a three-game series at rival Boston on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer in the first inning, Ben Rice went deep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10094,40722,48671,79622,80326,46144,61037,9,24,55,54,56,833,3529,3528,28392,80329,78081,28565,28388,28389,46142,80328,80327,5390,80325],"class_list":{"0":"post-202881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-anthony-rizzo","10":"tag-ben-rice","11":"tag-cole-ragans","12":"tag-kyle-bradish","13":"tag-luis-gil","14":"tag-mickey-mantle","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-city-news","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","21":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","22":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","23":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","24":"tag-product-40787-ap-kansas-sports-only","25":"tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","26":"tag-product-40800-ap-new-jersey-sports-only","27":"tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","28":"tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","29":"tag-ryan-weathers","30":"tag-salvador-perez","31":"tag-seth-lugo","32":"tag-trent-grisham","33":"tag-yankees-royals-score-judge-rice-weathers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}