September 22, 2024

WATCH: Yankees’ Clint Frazier blasts another homer

Clint Frazier #ClintFrazier

Clint Frazier is smoking hot.

Maybe hotter.

Just up from the Yankees’ alternate camp, Frazier made it three standout performances in a row on Saturday night against the Boston Red Sox when he was 2-for-2 with a walk, double and three-run homer in his first three plate appearances.

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With the Yanks up a run in the sixth inning, Frazier whacked a 378-foot homer to left off Red Sox right-hander starter Nathan Eovaldi for a 7-3 lead. Frazier jumped on a first-pitch cutter for his second homer in two nights to lift his three-game average to .600 with six hits in 10 at-bats.

Frazier was recalled on Aug. 11, two days after the Yankees placed designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton on the 10-day injured list with alet hamstring starin. Frazier was used at DH in his first two games before starting in right on Saturday.

Here are Yankees game notes for Saturday’s game courtesy of the team’s media relations department:

FRIDAY’S NEWS: The Yankees defeated the Red Sox, 10-3, at Yankee Stadium…RHP Gerrit Cole (7.0IP, 4H, 1ER, 0BB, 8K, 1HR) earned his fourth win of the season and extended his career-long winning streak to 20 games (since 5/27/19)…marked the longest start by a Yankees starter this season…SS Gleyber Torres (4-for-4, 2R, 1 double, 2RBI) tied his career high in hits (third time) and reached a season- high four times…C Gary Sánchez (1-for-5, 1R, 1HR, 2RBI) homered in his second straight game, hitting a 457-foot two-run home run in the fifth inning…2B DJ LeMahieu (2-for-5, 1R) picked up his eighth multi-hit game of the season…RF Mike Tauchman (3-for-5, 2R, 1 double, 4RBI) tied his career high in hits (sixth time) and RBI (third time).

SERIESOUSLY SPEAKING: The Yankees are undefeated in their last 26 home series (since 4/16/19), going 23-0-3 in those completed series…according to STATS, is the longest undefeated series streak in Yankees history (previous: 25 consecutive undefeated home series from 1997-98 and 25 straight in 1937)…according to Elias, the Yankees’ streak is tied for the sixth-longest in Major League history (counting only decisions) and the longest by any team since the Cincinnati Reds went undefeated in 26 straight series at home from September 1969-August 1970.

SOMETHING TO TAUCH ABOUT: OF Mike Tauchman drove in four of the Yankees’ 10R on Friday, tying his career highs with 3H (sixth time) and 4RBI (third time)…in his last 11G, has hit .400/.455/.533 (12-for-30) with 6R, 4 doubles, 7RBI, 3BB and 4SB.

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