HOUSTON \u2014 Power, then patience.<\/p>\n
On Saturday night, that was the winning formula for the Yankees.<\/p>\n
Austin Wells hit their third home run of the game, a go-ahead shot to lead off the seventh inning, before they added insurance runs on a pair of bases-loaded walks to secure the Yankees\u2019 eighth straight win, 8-3 over the Astros at Daikin Park.<\/p>\n
Trent Grisham and Jos\u00e9 Caballero also went deep while Ryan Weathers became the latest starter to turn in a strong outing as the Yankees (18-9) matched their longest winning streak from last season.<\/p>\n
Over the first two games of this series, the Yankees have racked up 20 runs on 25 hits, ganging up on the brutal pitching staff of the Astros (10-18).<\/p>\n
With the game tied at 2 entering the seventh inning, the scuffling Wells finally delivered a big hit, homering off Kai-Wei Teng to put the Yankees ahead by a run.<\/p>\n
They then mounted a rally to create more breathing room. <\/p>\n
Caballero, who had a three-hit night, nearly thwarted it by making the second out when he was thrown out trying to steal third (with a lefty at the plate) for the second time in the game. <\/p>\n
Trent Grisham (left) celebrates with Ben Rice after hitting a solo home run in the third inning of the Yankees\u2019 8-3 win over the Astros on April 25, 2026 in Houston. Troy Taormina-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
But Ben Rice followed with a single against lefty Bennett Sousa, and Aaron Judge came back from an 0-2 count to draw a nine-pitch walk to load the bases.<\/p>\n
Cody Bellinger then fought back from a 1-2 count to walk and force in a run before Jazz Chisholm Jr. drew a five-pitch walk to score another run for the 5-2 lead.<\/p>\n
Rice, who also had a three-hit night, came up just short of a grand slam in the eighth inning but settled for a sacrifice fly that made it 6-2.<\/p>\n
Wells later added a run-scoring single in the ninth \u2014 giving him two RBIs in the game after entering Saturday with two RBIs on the season \u2014 as he went 2-for-3 with a pair of walks. <\/p>\n
The catcher now has more walks (15) than strikeouts (14) on the season.<\/p>\n
Fresh off the paternity list, Weathers turned in a solid outing, giving up two runs over 5 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings to continue the Yankees\u2019 strong stretch of starting pitching. <\/p>\n
Their rotation has now given up two or fewer runs in each of its past eight starts, allowing seven earned runs in 54 innings during that stretch.<\/p>\n
Jos\u00e9 Caballero looks up to the sky as he rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run in the third inning of the Yankees\u2019 win over the Astros. Getty Images<\/p>\n
After making his last start Sunday against the Royals, Weathers stayed back in New York for the birth of his first child, Paul David Weathers, on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
The new dad was able to sneak in a bullpen session during the week before flying to Houston on Friday.<\/p>\n
Weathers got off to a rocky start, as he gave up a leadoff double to Carlos Correa. <\/p>\n
After Rice made a diving stop on a grounder to get the first out, the Astros took the lead on an RBI single down the third base line from Isaac Paredes.<\/p>\n
But from there, Weathers retired the next 11 batters in order to get through the fourth inning.<\/p>\n
Ben Rice hits a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning of the Yankees\u2019 win over the Astros. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Yankees tied the game in the top of the third, when Grisham went the other way for a solo home run into the Crawford Boxes off right-hander Mike Burrows. <\/p>\n
It could have been a two-run shot, except Caballero had just gotten thrown out trying to steal third base after successfully swiping second.<\/p>\n
But Caballero made up for it by homering in his next at-bat \u2014 going deep for the second time in as many nights \u2014 to put the Yankees ahead 2-1.<\/p>\n
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Yainer Diaz led off the fifth inning with a single, but Weathers soon erased him on a pickoff \u2014 the second straight night in which a Yankees pitcher picked off an Astro. <\/p>\n
That helped ensure that a single one out later proved harmless, as Weathers eventually completed the inning with the 2-1 lead still intact.<\/p>\n
That only lasted for another inning, though, as Correa led off the bottom of the sixth with a game-tying home run to left field \u2014 bringing Weathers to a knee on the mound as he watched it fly after throwing a sweeper that caught too much of the plate.<\/p>\n
The Astros threatened for more, but after Fernando Cruz relieved Weathers and walked Jose Altuve on four pitches, he rebounded to strike out the next two batters and strand a pair of runners. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 Power, then patience. On Saturday night, that was the winning formula for the Yankees. Austin Wells…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35512,48671,35073,20,9,11,10,321,319,5390],"class_list":{"0":"post-210035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-austin-wells","9":"tag-ben-rice","10":"tag-houston-astros","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-trent-grisham"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210035","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=210035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}