It began with a ball struck with authority, Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. thundering his second double of the game off the right field wall.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It included the kind of well-aimed luck that has eluded them, Austin Wells\u2019 pop-up into shallow right-center somehow not winding up in a Seattle glove.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And for the first time in a long time, there were bunches of hits \u2014 legitimate, real, pitch-to-bat-to-outfield-grass trajectories, the kind your grandparents fondly remember witnessing when they were young.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The frigid Yankees lineup finally broke through, stacking five knocks and one walk together to score four runs in the seventh inning to seize a 4-1 comeback victory over the Mariners in front of 41,407 frustrated, then frenzied, fans in The Bronx on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cStill, obviously, we got a long ways to go,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said after the Yankees (67-52) won for the third time in four games, a span in which Tuesday\u2019s was the lone contest not decided by one run. \u201cBut hopefully this is us moving the needle to get closer to the offense we can be.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York Yankees first baseman Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. (26) reacts after he hits a double during the seventh inning at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, in Bronx, NY. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n
So many games for the past several weeks have followed a script that featured excellent Yankees pitching, inept Yankees hitting and resulting late-game tension because neither side could create distance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That is how the series opener began, the Yankees down 1-0 \u2014 courtesy of a Randy Arozarena sixth-inning home run off an otherwise excellent Ryan Weathers \u2014 after six and a half innings, during which the home team managed three hits, none of which came with runners in scoring position.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Until the game flipped with Seattle starter Bryan Woo removed. Against righty Michael Rucker, Garc\u00eda scalded a leadoff double. Jazz Chisholm Jr., who even in this season of struggles has struggled acutely recently, found a hole on the right side of the infield to put runners on the corners.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York Yankees third baseman Ryan McMahon connects on an RBI two-run single off the Seattle Mariners in the seventh inning at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, August 11, 2026. JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST<\/p>\n
A George Lombard Jr. strikeout felt as if it would be the first step to another backbreaking inning, but after a Spencer Jones walk, Ryan McMahon lined a go-ahead two-run single through the left side of the infield to turn a one-run deficit into a one-run lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just trying to stay inside the baseball,\u201d said McMahon, who volleyed a curveball the other way for the 500th RBI of his career, \u201cgive us a good chance to try to get some runs in.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Wells\u2019 bloop single off Eduard Bazardo reloaded the bases, Trent Grisham found the same hole that McMahon exploited, smacking a single between third baseman Brendan Donovan and shortstop Colt Emerson to drive in two more.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Suddenly, the Yankees had a rally, a lead and a legitimate big inning: They had not scored more than two runs in a frame in more than a week, since last Monday\u2019s 13-7 loss to the Cardinals in which they scored three in one inning and four in another.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cJust a lot of tough at-bats,\u201d Boone said of the Yankees attack, which scored more than three runs in a contest for just a third time in their past 11 games (a stretch in which they incredibly have won six times).\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cStacking them, that\u2019s super important,\u201d McMahon added of the hits. \u201cThat\u2019s how you score runs and something we got to do a little bit more.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York Yankees pitcher Ryan Weathers (40) reacts on the mound during the fifth inning. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n
Regardless of the offensive output in every other inning \u2014 the Yankees scored in just the seventh and wasted a second-and-third rally in the first inning and a one-out double in the third \u2014 they escaped because their pitching remained typically brilliant.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Weathers\u2019 dominance, Tim Hill recorded four groundouts, Brent Headrick struck out two in a clean eighth and David Bednar \u2014 with the help of a hobbled Chisholm, who had hurt his ankle on the previous play and then ranged into the hole to field a ground ball and record a force out at second base \u2014 secured save No. 27.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Apart from one frame, the blueprint remained the same for a team that still is not scoring enough and still is relying heavily upon nearly untouchable pitching.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Yankees celebrate their win on Tuesday night. JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST<\/p>\n
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Part of this blueprint is the Yankees are now accustomed to playing tight games, which might matter in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope it serves us well in the end,\u201d Boone said after comeback win No. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It began with a ball struck with authority, Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. thundering his second double of the game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20,9,11,10,321,36062,46142,319,5390],"class_list":["post-319335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-ryan-mcmahon","tag-ryan-weathers","tag-sports","tag-trent-grisham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319335","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=319335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}