Campusano walks off Yankees in the 10th
Luis Campusano's walk-off homer beat the Yankees 3-2 in 10 innings, and Trent Grisham left the game with a hamstring issue that could put him on the IL.
Campusano's walk-off ends it in the 10th
Ben Rice tied it at 1 with a 444-foot homer to dead center, his team-leading 36th of the season, after Max Fried had worked 5.2 innings, allowing 4 hits and an earned run with 4 strikeouts. Mason Miller came a Ben Rice popup short of an immaculate ninth for San Diego, but the Padres' bullpen couldn't hold it there. Spencer Jones delivered a go-ahead hit in the top of the 10th to put the Yankees up 2-1, per Bryan Hoch of MLB.com.
Padres2-3It didn't hold. Luis Campusano, who had already thrown out three base-stealers, hit the walk-off homer in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Yankees 3-2, according to AJ Cassavell of MLB.com. Trent Grisham exited the game with right hamstring discomfort and did not return, the Yankees announced.
The loss dropped New York to 2-3 in the series against San Diego. The Yankees are still 80-61 on the season and 3-2 in their last five, having taken 2 of 3 from the Angels sandwiched around a 16-1 win over Boston and Friday's 10-3 loss in Anaheim.
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Grisham will undergo imaging on the hamstring, Hoch reports, and manager Aaron Boone said after the game he isn't sure yet whether it will require a trip to the injured list. It's the second outfield issue the Yankees have had to manage in as many months, with Aaron Judge already out since May.
Padres broadcast was shocked that the Yankees elected to leave their challenge on the table after this very close play in extras.
Judge, on the 60-day IL with a rib injury, won't face live pitching before the club returns home next week, Hoch reports, but he is trending toward a real return date tied to next week's homestand. Between Grisham's night ending early and Judge still working back, New York's outfield picture stays unsettled even with the club in position for a Wild Card spot.
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Carlos Rodón (4-3, 3.20 ERA) starts for the Yankees; the Padres are in San Diego this afternoon and counter with Robbie Ray (11-7, 3.14 ERA). Rodón lasted just 4.2 innings in a loss to Boston on August 29, allowing 2 earned runs on 3 hits with 5 strikeouts. Ray was better in his last turn, working 6 innings against Tampa Bay on August 30 with 1 earned run allowed and 4 strikeouts, though he left with a no-decision.
Both starters have been reliable most of the year, and after a game that took 10 innings and a walk-off to settle, neither bullpen figures to be fully rested.
San Diego is favored at home, and the total points to a low-scoring game, which tracks with Ray's recent form and a Padres lineup that has now won two straight one-run, extra-inning affairs. For the number to hold, the Yankees need more from Rodón than his last outing produced, given how thin the margin was the night before.