{"id":630529,"date":"2026-05-08T07:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/630529\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:56:11","slug":"struggling-trent-grisham-kickstarts-yankees-six-run-rally-with-at-bat-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/630529\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling Trent Grisham kickstarts Yankees\u2019 six-run rally with \u2018at-bat of the game\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trent Grisham opened the floodgates.<\/p>\n

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The Yankees were hitless in their previous seven at-bats with runners in scoring position Thursday when the center fielder stepped up in the bottom of the sixth against the Rangers.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t just clear the bases in slapping an RBI double to the wall in left center, he kicked off a contagious six-run rally that turned a 2-1 deficit into a 7-2 lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that Grish at-bat\u2019s the at-bat of the game,\u201d Aaron Boone said following the 9-2 win in The Bronx<\/a>. \u201cAnd [then] we\u2019re able to tack on a little bit from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following his clutch hit, Grisham reached home via a J.C. Escarra<\/a> single, while Aaron Judge<\/a> and Cody Bellinger<\/a> soon chipped in with RBIs as well, opening a five-run lead.<\/p>\n

\"Trent<\/p>\n

Trent Grisham connects on a double during the Yankees\u2019 May 7, 2026 win. Bill Kostroun for the NY Post<\/p>\n

Every Yankees starter (other than the injured Jasson Dom\u00ednguez<\/a>) ended the game with a hit, and Grisham scored again in the seventh off a Max Schuemann<\/a> double \u2014 the first hit of the recent call-up\u2019s Yankees career.<\/p>\n

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Texas<\/a> starter MacKenzie Gore<\/a> allowed just four hits prior to the Yankees outburst, one being a first-inning RBI triple from Bellinger.<\/p>\n

Still, Boone was pleased with the quality of the team\u2019s at-bats after the game and singled out his lefty hitters for praise.<\/p>\n

Grisham, who is one of those lefties, has struggled at the plate this year as his average dipped to .151 in late April.<\/p>\n

\"Trent<\/p>\n

Trent Grisham reacts after hitting a double during the Yankees\u2019 May 7 win. Robert Sabo for the NY Post<\/p>\n

But he was the protagonist of this Yankees comeback and the game\u2019s co-leader in hits (three), alongside fellow lefty Bellinger.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has been incredibly unlucky because I feel like he\u2019s hit the ball off the barrel a couple times a game and not being rewarded,\u201d Boone said of Grisham.<\/p>\n

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That luck shifted in the fourth inning for the 29-year-old when he saw a soft pop-up land off his bat in front of catcher Danny Jansen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From there, he eventually kicked the Yankees\u2019 turnaround into gear in what turned out to be a collective effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody feels pretty close. It\u2019s a tight-knit group, so I feel like everybody\u2019s fighting for each other up there,\u201d Schuemann said. \u201cIt\u2019s not necessarily selfish in any way. I haven\u2019t gotten that vibe since being here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Yankees will look to carry that positivity into their Milwaukee road trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trent Grisham opened the floodgates. Access the Yankees beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1992,4260,4711,39910,175274,86879,7841,105272,363,99,1022,109802,4710,12404],"class_list":["post-630529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-boone","tag-aaron-judge","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-danny-jansen","tag-j-c-escarra","tag-jasson-dominguez","tag-mackenzie-gore","tag-max-schuemann","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-the-yankees","tag-trent-grisham","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}