{"id":47848,"date":"2022-06-12T23:13:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/yankees-win-18-4-sweep-and-blow-out-cubs-for-second-straight-day\/"},"modified":"2022-06-12T23:13:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:13:59","slug":"yankees-win-18-4-sweep-and-blow-out-cubs-for-second-straight-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/yankees-win-18-4-sweep-and-blow-out-cubs-for-second-straight-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees win 18-4, sweep and blow out Cubs for second-straight day"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s strange to recap a game like this. What do you focus on in a game where the line score looks like an entire phone number? The Yankees took off from the word go, putting up five runs in the first and keeping their feet on the gas the rest of the way, putting up 18 runs and completing the sweep of the Cubs.<\/p>\n
We’ll get to what was kind of a weird outing from Yankees pitching in a second, but really the entire story of the game was the way the lineup unloaded on every guy the Cubs put on the mound. Ian Happ hit a solo home run in the top of the first, putting the Yankees down before they even saw a pitch. Keegan Thompson, though, just couldn’t hold up his end of the deal, walking the bases loaded in the home half, and then giving Matt Carpenter a free pass to tie the game.<\/p>\n
For the Cubs, it was all downhill from there; for Carpenter, it only got better.<\/p>\n
Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Joey Gallo both doubled to right to bring home four more runs:<\/p>\n
Thompson only faced nine hitters, recorded two outs, and left without completing the first inning down 5-1. He really struggled to find the strike zone, the Yankees executed well by not chasing any of his junk di lui, and when he came back over the plate, they were able to drive the ball – exactly the formula to knock out a starter early.<\/p>\n