SAN FRANCISCO — Aaron Decide homered for the third time in two video games in San Francisco and the New York Yankees beat the Giants 7-3 on Saturday night time.
Decide adopted up his two-homer efficiency Friday night time in his first sport on the stadium the place he rooted for the Giants as a toddler with one of many extra prodigious photographs hit on this ballpark’s 25 seasons.
“I’ve numerous household on the town, numerous mates on the town,” Decide stated. “I’ve to do one thing particular for them. Simply attempting to remain locked in and placed on a present.”
He capped a nine-pitch at-bat within the first inning towards Logan Webb (4-5) by launching a changeup 464 ft into the left-field bleachers for his major-league-leading twenty first dwelling run of the 12 months and a 2-0 lead.
Decide has six homers and 12 RBIs on the primary eight video games of this California highway journey.
“I believed he was at one other stage in San Diego, Anaheim and simply taking his act up the coast now,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone stated. “There is not any doubt that I believe he is excited to be right here and play right here for the primary time. … I believe it is cool for him to be right here and taking part in on this constructing and to placed on the efficiency that he is placed on the final two nights is consistent with what he is been right here for a fairly good stretch.”
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The change within the calendar did little to decelerate Decide, who had 14 homers, 12 doubles and 27 RBIs in Could for essentially the most extra-base hits in a month by a Yankees participant since Joe DiMaggio had 31 in July 1937.
Decide has reached base safely in 28 straight video games and is as locked in as he was two years in the past throughout stretches of his document 62-homer season.
“There have been runs within the ’22 season that had been fairly wild, however that is on par with that for certain,” teammate Giancarlo Stanton stated.
Webb deliberately walked Decide with a runner on third and one out in a two-run third inning earlier than placing him out with a runner on third to finish the fifth. Decide singled in his final at-bat.
Decide obtained loads of assist, with Stanton hitting a two-run homer within the eighth off Ryan Walker, and Alex Verdugo additionally driving in two runs.
That was greater than sufficient to guide the Yankees to their fifteenth win in 19 video games in help of Cody Poteet (2-0), who was referred to as up from Triple-A to make the beginning.
Poteet allowed a two-run homer to Casey Schmitt within the third inning and an unearned run within the fifth to earn the win in his second begin of the season.
Webb had allowed solely 4 earned runs in 5 begins at dwelling this season earlier than giving up that many in seven innings towards Decide and the Yankees.
“He is an MVP for a motive,” Webb stated. “You possibly can’t throw pitches within the coronary heart of the plate. It is the secret. He isn’t the one one like that, however particularly proper now with him being as sizzling as he’s.”
The Giants have misplaced three straight video games for the primary time since getting swept in a four-game collection on Could 3-6 at Philadelphia.