CLEVELAND \u2014 The Yankees hadn\u2019t won an extra-inning game all season and Cody Bellinger stepped into the box as about half the hitter on the road that he is at home.<\/p>\n
And he delivered to beat the odds that the Yankees are going to have to continue to overcome as a complete team \u2014 including one man short of an entire bullpen \u2014 while Aaron Judge is sidelined.<\/p>\n
Bellinger\u2019s tiebreaking one-out single in the 10th inning scored automatic runner Ali S\u00e1nchez and the runner that scared the Guardians into an intentional walk (Ben Rice) as the Yankees beat the Guardians 7-5 in a nearly four-hour Monday night marathon.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t pretty,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said, \u201cbut very gritty.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Yankees improved to 1-3 in extra innings.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re definitely going to have to win more games kind of like this, with a little bit more of a team effort,\u201d Paul Goldschmidt said. \u201cThe guy [Judge] is probably the best hitter on the planet. He wins games for us by himself at times. We may have to do some things a little different like tonight \u2014 moving runners, stealing bases, stuff we\u2019re already trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bellinger entered the game with a 1.140 OPS at Yankee Stadium and a .591 OPS on the road. Confounding splits that didn\u2019t matter as he bested Shawn Armstrong\u2019s 95 mph fastball with two strikes.<\/p>\n
Yankees starting pitcher Will Warren delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians, Monday, June 8, 2026 AP Photo\/David Dermer<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to get the job done, keep it simple and not try to do too much,\u201d Bellinger said.<\/p>\n
The Yankees used their entire bench and all but one arm in the bullpen. David Bednar, the seventh reliever, recorded the final five outs \u2014 including three straight with the tying runs on base.<\/p>\n
Ben Rice (right) celebrates after scoting in the tenth inning on Cody Bellinger\u2019s single. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cIt felt like a playoff game a little bit,\u201d starting pitcher Will Warren said, \u201cusing that many guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Goldschmidt, whose first-inning, two-run home run started the scoring, tied the score at 5-5 on an RBI fielder\u2019s choice in the eighth inning. The Yankees had three singles in the rally but were robbed of taking the lead by one of the niftiest double plays of the season.<\/p>\n
With the infield in, shortstop Brayan Rocchio slid to his knees, lifted his glove to snag a high bounce up the middle, tagged the base with the ball in his glove, rolled over and threw from one knee. The ball hopped but was scooped at first to get the speedy Jazz Chisholm Jr.<\/p>\n
Paul Goldschmidt, right, is congratulated by Ben Rice (22) after hitting a two-run home run off Cleveland Guardians starting pitcher Gavin Williams during the inning of a baseball game, Monday, June 8, 2026. AP Photo\/David Dermer<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to be there,\u201d Boone said. \u201cBut he made a great play.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the same moment that lasers danced around the court at Madison Square Garden during the Knicks pregame introductions for Game 3 of the NBA Finals, fireworks went off high above center field 463 miles away in front of 29,517 fans at Progressive Field.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Entering with a runner on first and no outs in the sixth, Paul Blackburn was greeted by Angel Mart\u00ednez\u2019s go-ahead two-run home run to give the Guardians a 5-4 lead.<\/p>\n
The Guardians erased a 3-0 deficit in the third inning with three runs on three hits, a wild pitch and a two-out run-scoring error by Jos\u00e9 Caballero, who couldn\u2019t handle a short hop behind second base after the ball bounced through Warren\u2019s legs.<\/p>\n
Warren needed 91 pitches to get through 4 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings, and the short outing prompted Boone to piece together the rest of the game.<\/p>\n
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\u201cA lot of winning plays to get us to the finish line,\u201d Boone said.<\/p>\n
Ryan McMahon broke a 3-3 tie with an opposite-field home run that just cleared the 19-foot wall in left field to open the fifth. The ball was initially ruled in play as McMahon held up for a double but changed to a home run upon review.<\/p>\n
As McMahon resumed his trot, an uproar came from the Yankees fans behind the first base dugout that the Guardians loyalists tried to drown out with boos. The battle of the fan bases continued every time a Yankees cheer erupted.<\/p>\n
Yankees\u2019 Trent Grisham scores on a throwing error by Cleveland Guardians shortstop Brayan Rocchio during the third inning of a baseball game, Monday, June 8, 2026. AP Photo\/David Dermer<\/p>\n
It was the second time in six days that the Yankees touched up Gavin Williams, a Cy Young candidate, for a pair of home runs. He won his previous start last Wednesday in The Bronx by limiting the damage to three runs over 5 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings but didn\u2019t reach the sixth in the rematch.<\/p>\n
McMahon didn\u2019t get another at-bat because Anthony Volpe (groundout) pinch hit for him in the seventh against slider-dominant left-hander Tim Herrin. As a result, Volpe \u2014 not McMahon \u2014 was up in the ninth with the go-ahead runner on first.<\/p>\n
Cade Smith, the AL\u2019s best reliever, struck out Volpe and stranded a leadoff single.<\/p>\n
Two of the biggest outs by the parade of Yankees relievers came from left-handers Ryan Yarbrough and Tim Hill. All-Star right-handed slugger Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez flied out to end the sixth and eighth innings, both times with two runners on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 The Yankees hadn\u2019t won an extra-inning game all season and Cody Bellinger stepped into the box…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2320,4711,363,369,99],"class_list":["post-693655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693655","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=693655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}