Yankees hit four home runs, score 12 runs and collect 13 hits to crush Astros for 7th straight win
Yankees' Ben Rice, left, celebrates with Jazz Chisholm Jr. after homering during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Astros on Friday in Houston. Credit: AP/Karen Warren
HOUSTON — Jazz Chisholm Jr., Ryan McMahon, Ben Rice and Jose Caballero homered to help the Yankees extend their winning streak to seven games with a 12-4 win over the Houston Astros on Friday night.
Chisholm, who had four RBIs and scored three runs, hit a two-run single to cap a three-run first inning and added his second homer of the season in the fourth. He had an RBI single in the seventh.
McMahon hit a solo home run in the second, and Rice, who had two RBIs and scored three runs, added a solo shot, his ninth of the season, in the seventh. Caballero, who had an RBI single in the sixth, hit a solo homer in the four-run seventh.
Giancarlo Stanton had an RBI single in the sixth before exiting three batters later with right lower leg tightness after being unable to score from second on a J.C. Escarra single to the leftfield wall. After being checked out by a trainer, Stanton left and was replaced by Randal Grichuk.
Aaron Judge (0-for-2) had three walks for the Yankees.
Yankees starter Will Warren (3-0) allowed two runs and seven hits in six innings, striking out six. He has allowed two runs or fewer in five of his six starts this season.
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