SEATTLE — Center fielder Harrison Bader going on the injured list with a hamstring strain and first baseman Anthony Rizzo missing another game with a sore neck didn’t faze the Yankees.
With half of their lineup hurt, the bats are as hot as they’ve been all season.
The Yankees piled up a bunch of runs again in Tuesday night’s 10-2 win over the Mariners.
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They’ve scored 30 runs reaching double digits three games in a row, a first for the Yankees since September 2020 when they scored 43 runs in sweeping the Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium.
“Good team at-bats,” Isiah Kiner-Falefa after going 4-for-5 with four RBI. “Everybody’s chipping in right now and everybody’s passing the baton.”
Kiner-Falefa has been on a big-time hot streak of late. In his last 11 games, he’s been producing like Aaron Judge hitting at a .382 clip (13-for-34) with three homers and 12 RBI.
“He just continued building on what’s been a really impressive couple of weeks for him at the plate,” manager Aaron Boone said of IKF. “We’ve seen some power in there and then tonight just hitting the ball on a line. He’s in a really good place.”
Judge homered again, too, his third in two games and 18th of the season.
Anthony Volpe and Greg Allen also homered for the Yankees, who easily withstood lefty starter Nestor Cortes’ latest middle-inning struggles.
This time, the Yankees were ahead 7-0 when Cortes gave up two fifth-inning runs after starting his night with four scoreless.
Cortes kept the damage to two runs by ending the fifth with a strikeout with two runners on, but the Yankees smartly went to their bullpen after that.
In 11 starts this season, Cortes has pitched to a 1.84 ERA in innings one through fourth, then a 14.67 ERA from the fifth inning on with 25 earned runs allowed over 15 1/3 innings.
“He’s a really good pitcher and he’ll be fine,” Boone said. “I wish everyone would stop asking me…
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