Ever seen a team bat around TWICE in the same inning?
If you hadn’t, the third inning of Sunday’s 13-8 Yankees win over the A’s was for you, as the Bombers did that in scoring 13 runs in the inning – their biggest inning since a 14-run frame in 1920.
The Yankees’ third saw them score 13 runs on 11 hits and four walks, steal four bases, score 10 runs before recording an out, and force the A’s to make two pitching changes a half-inning that lasted 43 minutes.
Ben Rice was 2-for-2 with four RBI and two runs scored in the inning, posting both a double and a triple, three other starters scored twice, and somehow, the Yankees avoided having someone make two outs in the inning – Aaron Judge, Paul Goldschmidt, and Trent Grisham made the three outs.
An inning for the ages, but one the Yankees needed, as they were down 3-0 entering the frame, allowed four runs in the seventh and one in the eighth, and saw David Bednar get out of a two-on, one-out jam in the ninth to finish it out.
And even weirder? A’s pitching faced the minimum 24 batters across the other eight innings, as the Yankees’ only baserunner outside the frame was Cody Bellinger, who walked in the sixth but was erased on a double play.
