Cody Bellinger hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the fifth inning, when the New York Yankees scored five runs en route to an 8-4 victory over the visiting San Francisco Giants on Saturday afternoon in rainy conditions.
Bellinger, who opened the scoring with an RBI triple in the first, ripped a single to center field off San Francisco’s Jordan Hicks (1-1) to snap a 2-2 tie in the fifth.
Ben Rice scored on Bellinger’s single before Paul Goldschmidt drove in Aaron Judge with a ground-rule double. Anthony Volpe hit a sacrifice fly to bring in Bellinger, then Jasson Dominguez capped the fifth with a two-run single. Rice added a solo homer in the sixth.
Will Warren (1-0) earned his first career win by allowing two runs on two hits in five innings. He struck out six and walked two after the Yankees put Marcus Stroman on the 15-day injured list with left knee inflammation before the game.
Wilmer Flores drove in all four runs for the Giants. He hit a tying two-run homer off Warren in the second and a two-run single off Fernando Cruz in the sixth.
Luke Weaver struck out Sam Huff with two on to end the sixth and Mark Leiter Jr. stranded two in the eighth. Devin Williams fanned two in the ninth with two on in a non-save situation.
Hicks was rocked for seven runs on eight hits in four-plus innings.
The Yankees went ahead in the first when Bellinger hit a fly ball that carried to deep left and caromed off the edge of Heliot Ramos’ glove as he attempted a leaping catch near the warning track. Goldschmidt lifted a sacrifice fly to make it 2-0, but Flores blasted a 1-2 sinker into the Yankees’ bullpen in the second to even the score.
–Field Level Media
