Yankees allow six home runs in loss to Twins
Yankees relief pitcher Camilo Doval reacts during the eighth inning against the Minnesota Twins at Yankee Stadium on Saturday. Credit: Jim McIsaac
Josh Bell hit two of the Minnesota Twins' six home runs in an 11-4 victory over the Yankees on Saturday afternoon at Yankee Stadium.
Kody Clemens, Luke Keaschall and Alex Jackson homered in the first two innings off Brendan Beck, who was making his first major-league start in place of the injured Carlos Rodon, and Trevor Larnach homered off Tim Hill in the fourth as the Twins took a 6-0 lead. Byron Buxton had an RBI double before Clemens' two-run homer in the first and Keaschall and Jackson hit back-to-back blasts in the second.
Bell homered off Ryan Yarbrough in the seventh to make it 7-4 and hit a two-run homer off Camilo Doval in the eighth for an 11-4 lead. Doubles by Buxton and Bell gave the Twins six extra-base hits among their total of 11.
The Twins hit six homers for the first time since a 20-6 win at Cleveland on Sept. 4, 2023.The Yankees allowed six homers for the first time since Aug. 15, 2019, against Cleveland and lost for the eighth time in nine games and the 11th time in 14.
Bell’s second homer came after second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. started the eighth by bobbling Keaschall’s grounder, which made all four runs off Doval unearned. Doval also allowed four runs in the 11th inning of the Yankees' 6-2 loss to the Tigers on Wednesday.
Third baseman Ryan McMahon also committed a throwing error, the Yankees' 19th error in their last 14 games.
The Yankees, who led the second-place Rays by 3 1/2 games on June 17 and by three games on June 24, temporarily fell 4 1/2 games behind Tampa Bay, which played the Astros on Saturday night. The Rays, who will begin a four-game series against the Yankees in St. Petersburg on Monday, brought a nine-game winning streak into Saturday night.
Jasson Domínguez homered in the fourth and Max Schuemann hit a two-run drive in the fifth for the Yankees. Cody Bellinger added a two-out RBI double in the fifth to move them within 6-4, but they left runners on second and third in that inning. After loading the bases with one out in the sixth, they stranded three more as pinch hitter Amed Rosario struck out on a 2-and-2 pitch far out of the strike zone and pinch hitter Paul Goldschmidt flied out. The Yankees wound up going 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position and leaving nine on base.
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