Ryan McMahon, Trent Grisham and Paul Goldschmidt hit eighth inning homers and the New York Yankees rallied late for the second straight game, beating the Nationals 4-2 Saturday in Washington.
After staging a three-run ninth-inning rally in a 5-3 win Friday night, the Yankees struck an inning earlier on Saturday.
With New York trailing 2-0, McMahon homered off Orlando Ribalta with one out. After Ben Rice walked, Clayton Beeter (3-2) came in to face Grisham, who hit a two-run shot to give the Yankees the lead. Goldschmidt followed with his 15th homer of the season, a shot into the Yankee bullpen in left-center.
Brent Headrick (5-1) got the win and David Bednar pitched the ninth for his 18th save as New York won its third straight.
James Wood had three hits including a homer, and Curtis Mead had a homer and a single for Washington, which suffered its 27th blown save of the season.
Yankee ace Cam Schlittler allowed the two runs on four hits over 6 2/3 innings. He struck out six and tied his season high with four walks.
After Washington opener PJ Poulin worked 1 1/2 innings, Miles Mikolas tossed four scoreless frames.
The first two Yankees reached base to start the game, but Poulin struck out Grisham and Goldschmidt, and got Cody Bellinger to ground out.
Wood gave the Nationals a 1-0 lead when he hit Schlittler’s first-pitch fastball out to right center for his ninth leadoff homer of the season and 27th overall. Two batters later Mead homered to left center to make it 2-0.
A pair of two-out walks loaded the bases for Washington in the fourth, but Schlittler retired Nasim Nunez.
Rice and Grisham singled leading off the New York sixth, but Goldschmidt hit into a double play and Bellinger flied out.
Washington loaded the bases again in the seventh. Wood and Luis Garcia Jr. both reached on infield singles with two outs against Headrick. Mead walked to load the bases, but Headrick got CJ Abrams swinging on a pitch out of the strike zone.
–Field Level Media
