{"id":335853,"date":"2026-09-02T10:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335853\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:50:25","slug":"yankees-use-balanced-effort-to-get-win-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335853\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees use balanced effort to get win Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 As ugly as Monday night was for the Yankees, Tuesday was much cleaner, if still not perfect.<\/p>\n

There was Spencer Jones, who went deep for the second time in as many nights, reached base four times and drove in three runs to keep showing he deserves at-bats even once the Yankees are whole.<\/p>\n

There was Jazz Chisholm Jr., who went back-to-back with Jones in the first inning on the way to a three-hit night, offering more hope his recent hot streak is a sign of things to come down the stretch.<\/p>\n

And there was Gerrit Cole, pitching in his backyard and building on a strong stretch in which he\u2019s continued to look like himself before his bullpen picked him up.<\/p>\n

The Yankees wasted some chances to fully blow the game open and make things even more comfortable late, but they did enough to get back on track with a 7-3 win over the lowly but newly sold Angels at Angel Stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cScoring in the first in any game, especially a game bouncing back after a loss, is huge,\u201d Jones said. \u201cJust being able to play with a lead for the majority of the game and bring the offense early is big for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bouncing back from an error-filled, 10-1 letdown in Monday\u2019s series opener<\/a>, the Yankees (79-60) kicked off the final month of the regular season by staying 4 \u00b9\/\u2082 games back of the Rays for the division with 23 games left to play, while moving back to four games ahead of the Red Sox for the top AL wild card.<\/p>\n

Cole\u2019s night ended on a sour note, when he gave up a two-run triple to Christian Moore with one out in the sixth inning that pulled the Angels within 4-3. <\/p>\n

But Brent Headrick came on to leave the tying run at third, now having stranded 38 of 42 inherited runners this season.<\/p>\n

Spencer Jones belts a two-run homer in the first inning of the Yankees\u2019 7-3 win over the Angels on Sept. 1, 2026 in Anaheim, Calif. Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The Yankees then created some breathing room late \u2014 a rally started by Jones\u2019 second walk of the night and Chisholm\u2019s third hit \u2014 as the scuffling Trent Grisham (2-for-42) fouled off a pair of bunt attempts before roping a single for the 5-3 lead off lefty reliever Samy Natera Jr.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s everyone doing a little something tonight,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said.<\/p>\n

After Paul Goldschmidt added a pinch-hit sacrifice fly, Jones made it 7-3 in the ninth inning with a left-on-left single to plate Cody Bellinger, who recorded three of the Yankees\u2019 14 hits.<\/p>\n

Jazz Chisholm Jr. rounds the bases after hitting a solo homer in the first inning of the Yankees\u2019 win over the Angels. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201c[Jones] is a great player, he\u2019s a great kid,\u201d Chisholm said of the right fielder who is batting .348 with a 1.044 OPS over his past 15 games. \u201cWe\u2019ve heard about him for years and now he\u2019s getting a chance to show it. I\u2019m really happy for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The late runs allowed Boone to use new reliever John Schreiber for the bottom of the ninth \u2014 after Headrick and Paul Blackburn each recorded four outs \u2014 and the side-armer delivered a 1-2-3 frame to close it out.<\/p>\n

Cole entered the night having pitched to a 2.41 ERA in six career starts at Angel Stadium, where he grew up going to games near his home in Newport Beach. <\/p>\n

Gerrit Cole allowed three runs in 5 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings and picked up the win to improve to 8-7 on the season. Getty Images<\/p>\n

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But when the Yankees made their annual trip here last season, in late May, Cole was still not yet throwing as he recovered from Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n

Now, he is 18 starts back from the major elbow surgery with a 3.29 ERA, looking primed for the stretch run.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m very excited for him and Carlos [Rod\u00f3n] and really the pitching staff for the Yankees, because these guys are going into the primes of their season in the playoffs,\u201d superagent Scott Boras, who counts Cole and Rod\u00f3n among his many clients, said before the game from his field-level suite. \u201cNormally you\u2019ve spent 190 innings, 180, and you got to get through the playoffs. But they have three starters [Cole, Rod\u00f3n and Max Fried] that are very, very fresh \u2014 and veteran starters, on top of it. So it gives them an advantage few teams have.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 As ugly as Monday night was for the Yankees, Tuesday was much cleaner, if still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22383,37028,20,9,11,10,321,44865,319],"class_list":["post-335853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-jazz-chisholm","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-spencer-jones","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335853","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=335853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}