ANAHEIM, Calif. — — Spencer Jones homered and drove in three runs, Jazz Chisholm Jr. additionally went deep and completed with three hits, and the New York Yankees pulled away Tuesday night time for a 7-3 victory over the Los Angeles Angels.
Jones and Chisholm launched back-to-back homers to provide Gerrit Cole a 3-0 lead earlier than throwing a pitch in his newest return residence. New York moved 4 video games forward of rival Boston for the highest American League wild card and remained 4 1/2 video games behind first-place Tampa Bay within the AL East.
A day that started with Kroenke Sports & Entertainment reaching an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in the Angels from proprietor Arte Moreno ended with them shedding for the ninth time in 11 video games.
Cole (8-7) gave up three runs and eight hits in 5 1/3 innings, hanging out 5 and strolling one. Brent Headrick, Paul Blackburn and John Schreiber held Los Angeles to 1 hit the remainder of the best way.
Angels starter Grayson Rodriguez (4-6) allowed 4 runs and 7 hits in six innings, hanging out seven and strolling two.
Los Angeles trailed 4-1 when Wade Meckler, who had three hits, opened the sixth with a single. Moisés Ballesteros singled and Christian Moore sliced a two-run triple to proper discipline that eluded a diving Jones and trimmed the deficit to 4-3.
Cole was pulled in favor of Headrick, who stranded Moore by hanging out pinch-hitter Jose Siri and getting Oswald Peraza to fly out.
New York pushed the result in 6-3 within the eighth when Jones walked, Chisholm singled and Trent Grisham, mired in a 2-for-42 droop, fouled off two bunt makes an attempt earlier than hitting an RBI single. Ryan McMahon loaded the bases with a bunt single and Paul Goldschmidt hit a sacrifice fly.
Consecutive singles by Cody Bellinger, who had three of New York’s 14 hits, Luis García Jr. and Jones made it 7-3 within the ninth.
Bellinger singled earlier than Jones hit a two-run homer within the first — his second longball in two nights. Chisholm adopted with an opposite-field shot into the left-field nook.
Yankees RHP Cam Schlittler (12-6, 2.09 ERA) faces LHP Reid Detmers (4-8, 3.54) in Wednesday night time’s collection finale.
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