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Aaron Judge-less Yankees deliver all-around dominant win over Diamondbacks

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On Friday night, the New York Yankees won 9-2 over the Arizona Diamondbacks despite star hitter Aaron Judge being placed on the injured list with a right calf strain earlier in the day. Gerrit Cole pitched six strong innings, allowing two runs and striking out six to lead the team back from recent struggles. The Yankees’ offense broke through early, scoring five runs in the first inning, which helped secure their victory as they continue to vie for playoff positioning ahead of the Rays and Red Sox.

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The New York Yankees secured an important victory against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night with a score of 9-2 at Chase Field in Phoenix, despite news that star player Aaron Judge would be going on the injured list due to a right calf strain. The game marked Gerrit Cole's return to form after struggling in his previous two starts, where he allowed seven home runs combined. Cole gave up just one run and four hits over six innings while striking out six batters, moving him past former pitcher Brien Taylor for most wins by the first overall draft pick with 162 career victories. Ben Rice contributed significantly to the Yankees' win with his 39th homer of the season, which ties Cole's feat in terms of hitting milestones during a critical period as both teams fight for playoff positions. With this win, the Yankees (89-64) moved within four games of the Tampa Bay Rays for first place in the AL East and maintained a 5½-game lead over the Boston Red Sox for the top wild card spot.

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Narrative

On a day that began with news of Judge going on the injured list with a right calf strain that very much threatens his availability for the postseason, the Yankees (89-64) inched within four games of the Rays for the division with nine games remaining, while staying 5 ¹/₂ games clear of the Red Sox for the top AL wild card.

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🔮 Barring a Rays collapse, the Yankees will almost certainly be facing the Red Sox in the AL wild-card series, and Aaron Boone said before Friday’s game that he would expect Cole to make a start in that series despite getting roughed up of late.

2026-09-19 · New York Post

Aaron Judge-less Yankees deliver all-around dominant win over Diamondbacks · assertive framing

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PHOENIX — Who needs Aaron Judge? asserted

Who → need → Judge

The Yankees do, of course, but they began life without him again on Friday night in encouraging fashion. asserted

they → do → fashion

Try it freeIn a tribute to Judge, who has fueled much of their first-inning damage over the years, the Yankees put up a five spot in the opening frame before Gerrit Cole took care of the rest in an important bounce-back start. asserted

Cole → try → start

Coming into the day having allowed seven home runs over his last two starts, Cole gave up another but limited the damage to just one on the way to the Yankees’ 9-2 win over the Diamondbacks at Chase Field. asserted

Cole → come → Field

games → begin → card

Barring a Rays collapse, the Yankees will almost certainly be facing the Red Sox in the AL wild-card series, and Aaron Boone said before Friday’s game that he would expect Cole to make a start in that series despite getting roughed up of late. asserted

Cole → bar → series

Cole then took the mound and backed up that faith, throwing six innings of two-run ball in his penultimate start of the regular season. asserted

Cole → take → season

The runs both came on Corbin Carroll’s two-run shot in the second inning, which came on a 97 mph fastball, the pitch that opponents have hit hard lately against Cole. asserted

opponents → come → Cole

And while he still only generated four whiffs on 20 swings against his fastball, he found a way to minimize the damage and get back on track. asserted

he → generate → track

The veteran right-hander struck out six while walking none and scattering only four hits — all of which came off his fastball — against the Diamondbacks (80-74), who are on the outside looking in for the final NL wild card. asserted

who → strike → card

It helped that the Yankees gave Cole a 5-0 lead to work with before he threw a single pitch, as they made Diamondbacks All-Star lefty Eduardo Rodríguez throw 45 pitches in the top of the first. asserted

Rodríguez → help → first

Each of the first five batters reached base, as Paul Goldschmidt walked, Cody Bellinger singled, Heliot Ramos walked, Ben Rice walked and Amed Rosario singled. One out later, George Lombard Jr. roped a two-run single up the middle to make it 5-0. asserted

it → reach → middle

Ben Rice added a solo shot off Rodríguez in the third inning, for his 39th home run of the year (and later tripled), before Lombard knocked him out of the game in the sixth with a home run of his own that made it 7-2. asserted

it → add → own

After the Yankees added a pair of insurance runs in the seventh inning, with some help from two errors by the Diamondbacks, Ryan Yarbrough, Michael Fulmer and Luis Gil combined for the final nine outs of the game. asserted

Yarbrough → add → game