The New York Yankees had a challenging game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, scoring only once and managing five hits before a late rally in the ninth inning allowed them to tie the game. However, they failed to push runs across during extra innings, and the Pirates secured a 5-4 win with Tommy Pham's decisive hit. Manager Aaron Boone praised his team's ability to rally but acknowledged the difficulties faced offensively throughout the match, especially against Pirates pitcher Andrew Heaney who struck out ten batters in seven innings.
With their bats in a deep freeze for eight innings on a raw Sunday afternoon against the Pirates, the Yankees scored three times in the ninth to force extra innings.
You always want to push one across, obviously, in the extra frames. We weren't able to do that... not being able to push it across a few times just caught up with us.
Pham fouled off three straight full-count pitches before banging a changeup off the wall in left-center to win it.
The Yankees rallied for three against lefty Ryan Borucki. Anthony Volpe reached on an infield single with one out and, after Jasson Dominguez walked with two outs, Oswald Peraza roped an RBI double down the leftfield line.
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