Giancarlo Stanton left the game in the sixth inning<\/a> with what the team called \u201cright lower leg tightness,\u201d threatening to end the Yankees\u2019 run of good health to start the season.\u00a0<\/p>\nOtherwise, the Yankees (17-9) put on a hit parade \u2014 13 in total \u2014 against Astros pitching to extend their winning streak.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jazz Chisholm Jr., Ryan McMahon, Ben Rice and Jos\u00e9 Caballero all homered \u2014 Chisholm as part of a season-high three-hit night as he finally begins to break out of the rut he was in to start the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chisholm, who has now homered in back-to-back games after going his first 23 games without one, finished the night 3-for-4 with four RBIs and a walk. He made an adjustment in Thursday\u2019s win over the Red Sox to back off the plate and slightly close his stance, which has paid major and immediate dividends. The only negative to Chisholm\u2019s night was a brutal automated ball-strike system challenge in the ninth inning, unsuccessfully trying to reverse a strikeout on a pitch that was not even close to being a ball.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rice, Caballero and J.C. Escarra all had multi-hit nights as every member of the starting lineup reached base at least once.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ben Rice of the New York Yankees is congratulated by Randal Grichuk after a home run in the seventh inning against the Houston Astros at Daikin Park on April 24, 2026 in Houston, Texas. Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Yankees traveled nearly 2,000 miles overnight Thursday and in doing so, took a step up in weight class to challenge their red-hot rotation \u2014 the Astros (10-17) boasting a much more potent offense than the Red Sox or Royals, their last two opponents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Will Warren proved to be up to the task, working around traffic for most of the night to toss six innings of two-run ball. The right-hander \u2014 who has now allowed two earned runs or fewer in each of his six starts \u2014 scattered seven hits and one walk while striking out six.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Over their last 35 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings, the Yankees rotation has allowed just four runs (three earned), providing the backbone for this winning streak.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before Warren even took the mound, he was treated to a 3-0 lead courtesy of his offense, with some help from a Jos\u00e9 Altuve error.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jazz Chisholm Jr. of the New York Yankees reacts after hitting a home run in the fourth inning against the Houston Astros at Daikin Park on April 24, 2026 in Houston, Texas. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Trent Grisham and Aaron Judge led off with back-to-back walks against Lance McCullers Jr. before Cody Bellinger singled to load the bases.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rice came up next and hit a tailor-made ground ball to Altuve, who fielded it but then flipped an errant throw out of the reach of Carlos Correa at second base, allowing all the runners to be safe and one to score for the 1-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Stanton smashed into a double play, Chisholm roped a two-run single to right to make it 3-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n
McMahon, who did not start any of the three games against the Red Sox as the Yankees faced three straight lefties, was back in the lineup Friday and made it count. The scuffling third baseman led off the second inning with his second home run of the year, going the other way to poke one into the Crawford Boxes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After the Astros got a run back in the bottom of the second, Chisholm led off the fourth with a homer that made it 5-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York Yankees starting pitcher Will Warren (29) throws a pitch during in the first inning against the Houston Astros at Daikin Park. Maria Lysaker-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
The Yankees then blew the game open in the sixth and seventh innings against lefty reliever Colton Gordon, turning a 5-2 game into a 12-2 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rice\u2019s ninth home run of the season \u2014 tying Judge for the team lead \u2014 made it 9-2 in the seventh before Caballero capped off the rally with a solo shot of his own that pushed the lead to 12-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 The Yankees rolled a seven Friday on a night when they just kept cashing in at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34722,35073,37028,20,9,11,10,321,319,46145],"class_list":{"0":"post-209246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","9":"tag-houston-astros","10":"tag-jazz-chisholm","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-new-york-yankees","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-will-warren"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209246","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=209246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}