WASHINGTON \u2014 Break up the Yankees.<\/p>\n
Two outs away from taking another step back following Thursday\u2019s eruption against the Rays, Jazz Chisholm Jr. saved the day to secure the Yankees back-to-back wins for the first time in over two weeks.<\/p>\n
Trailing by a run and facing one-time Yankee lefty Matt Krook with one out in the ninth inning, Chisholm clobbered a two-run shot into the second deck to lift the Yankees to a dramatic 5-3 win over the Nationals on Friday night at Nationals Park.<\/p>\n
After Chisholm\u2019s blast, Austin Wells crushed his second home run in as many days (after going 23 straight games without one), providing some breathing room for David Bednar in his second inning of work to finish off the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we all come together, the energy\u2019s outstanding and we\u2019re electric together,\u201d Chisholm said.<\/p>\n
The consecutive wins are the Yankees\u2019 first since June 23-24, going 2-11 in between, as they try to finally string some momentum together to fully snap out of their recent skid.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re starting to get that spark,\u201d said Ryan Weathers, who gave up just one run across 5 \u00b9\/\u2083 strong innings. \u201cJazz had a big swing there in the ninth, that was huge for us. \u2026 I think the progression of the pitching and hitting, you see the [at-bats] are really good right now, I feel like the pitching\u2019s doing a really good job right now, and just want to keep stacking good days on good days.\u201d<\/p>\n
After first pitch was delayed two hours by storms in the area, the Yankees (52-42) got solo home runs from Ben Rice and Jasson Dom\u00ednguez to take a 2-1 lead into the seventh inning before Tim Hill gave up back-to-back home runs to Keibert Ruiz and James Wood, putting the Nationals (48-47) ahead 3-2.<\/p>\n
Jazz Chisholm Jr. celebrates after belting the go-ahead, two-run homer in the ninth inning of the Yankees\u2019 5-3 comeback win over the Nationals on July 10, 2026 in Washington. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
But after wasting chances to add on throughout the game, the Yankees finally cashed in during the ninth inning against Krook. <\/p>\n
With one out, Dom\u00ednguez got things started with a single from the right side. Chisholm came up next, got a sweeper over the heart of the plate and did not miss, drilling a moonshot that he admired for the 4-3 lead.<\/p>\n
Playing without Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton for the foreseeable future, the Yankees could desperately use Chisholm getting hot after an inconsistent first half, with his big swing Friday night a reminder of his high-end talent.<\/p>\n
Ben Rice rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run in the first inning of the Yankees\u2019 win over the Nationals. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like he got off to a tough start in April, since then has been fine,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said. \u201cBut Jazz shouldn\u2019t be fine. He\u2019s better than that. So hopefully he\u2019s setting himself up for a really good second half. Because when he gets going, he\u2019s one of those guys that changes a game in a lot of ways and even can carry teams in certain stretches. Good to see a big swing in a big spot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Similar to their third inning Thursday against the Rays, which keyed a 12-run outburst at Tropicana Field, the Yankees then strung together quality at-bats against righty Justin Lawrence, including Wells going deep for the second straight game, even though they eventually left the bases loaded.<\/p>\n
But it is going to take that kind of full-team effort to pick themselves out of the hole they dug for themselves over the past few weeks, which is one of the points that Chisholm made when he spoke up in Thursday\u2019s pregame hitters meeting. <\/p>\n
Ryan Weathers pitches during the fifth inning of the Yankees\u2019 win over the Nationals. Getty Images<\/p>\n
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At a time when everyone was slumping together and trying to break the team out of it individually, Chisholm encouraged his teammates to \u201cbe more together\u201d on and off the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like we\u2019re losing ourselves and we\u2019re splitting further and further apart,\u201d Chisholm said. \u201cI feel like when we\u2019re together, we\u2019re unstoppable. Every time we go on a crazy run, it\u2019s because we\u2019re always together and having fun together as a team. I feel like that\u2019s a big part of going on the baseball field and knowing your teammates and having your teammates\u2019 back and trusting your teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cFelt like we just have to tighten up and be for each other instead of being for ourselves. I\u2019m the biggest advocate of loving my own stats, but at the end of the day, I wouldn\u2019t mind rolling over to second base to move the runner over from second with no outs.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Break up the Yankees. Two outs away from taking another step back following Thursday\u2019s eruption against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35512,48671,37028,20,9,11,10,321,46142,319,35514],"class_list":["post-293079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-austin-wells","tag-ben-rice","tag-jazz-chisholm","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-ryan-weathers","tag-sports","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293079","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=293079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}