Yankees surrender walk-off homer in extra innings…
SAN DIEGO — The local boy made good, but it wasn’t enough.
After Spencer Jones put the Yankees forward with a leadoff single in the top of the tenth against Padres flamethrower Mason Miller, his homecoming heroics bought spoiled in the underside of the body.
Luis Campusano hit a walk-off two-run shot against Paul Blackburn to raise the Padres past the Yankees 3-2 in a playoff-like ambiance on Friday night time at a sold-out Petco Park.
Blackburn had not allowed a run in his last 13 ¹/₃ innings before Friday night time, or a home run since July 29. But he picked a unhealthy time to snap both streaks, leaving a first-pitch sinker over the center of the plate with one out that Campusano crushed to left discipline to end it.
Jones had led off the top of the tenth with a single on Miller’s 100 mph fastball that put the Yankees up 2-1, but was later thrown out attempting to steal third.
On a night time when they misplaced Trent Grisham to a proper hamstring injury, the Yankees (80-61) fell to 4 video games back of the Rays for the division with 21 video games to play, with the Red Sox transferring within 3 ¹/₂ video games of them for the top AL wild card.
Luis Campusano of the San Diego Padres reacts as he rounds the bases after hitting a two-run walk-off home run to defeat the New York Yankees in the tenth inning at Petco Park in San Diego, California, on Sept. 4, 2026. Getty Images
Max Fried was sharp in his second start back from the injured checklist for a recurrence of his left elbow bone bruise, building up to 72 pitches across 5 ²/₃ innings of one-run ball. The left-hander pounded the strike zone, permitting him to be environment friendly and get deeper into the sport despite the restricted pitch rely.
With the Yankees transferring their pitching around to take benefit of off days Thursday and Monday, Will Warren piggybacked Fried for his second reduction look of the season and was equally strong. The right-hander tossed 2 ¹/₃ scoreless innings, permitting just one base runner before handing off to David Bednar to start the underside of the ninth.
New York Yankees’ Spencer Jones celebrates after hitting an RBI single and advancing to second base during the tenth inning. AP Photo/Gregory Bull
But the Padres bullpen matched with zeroes in reduction of Walker Buehler, including lefty Adrian Morejon and Miller — who had been related to the Yankees main up to the commerce deadline before both remained in San Diego. Morejon struck out the aspect in the eighth inning before Miller retired the aspect in the ninth with two more punchouts, one on a 102 mph heater to Cody Bellinger.
The Padres (74-67) then practically received it in the underside of the ninth when the successful run bought to third on a double and a handed ball from Austin Wells. But Bednar struck out Austin Hays to ship it to extras.
The Padres struck first on a play that in the end led to Grisham exiting the sport. Ty France led off the underside of the second with a double and then moved to third on a sacrifice bunt. Xander Bogaerts got here up with two outs and hit a 255-foot bloop to heart discipline that Grisham, whose beginning depth was 332 ft, couldn’t observe down in time, wanting like he was unable to get into another gear.
The ball landed to put the Padres up 1-0 and after the inning ended, Grisham returned to the dugout and tapped a coach on the back before going down the steps with him to the clubhouse and not returning.
In the meantime, Ben Rice tied the sport in the top of the third when he clobbered a 444-foot shot to the batter’s eye off Buehler. Rice’s thirty sixth home run of the season was his second longest, trailing only a 447-footer last month in Baltimore.
Will Warren of the New York Yankees pitches during the sixth inning. Getty Images
Fried caught a slight break in the underside of the third when Manny Machado hit a two-out single to left discipline and tried to stretch it into a double. He beat the throw there, but got here off the bag briefly when popping up from his slide while Jazz Chisholm Jr. stored the tag on him, ensuing in the third out of the inning.
That, in half, helped Fried go additional than he did in his first start back from the IL last Saturday, when he threw 63 pitches across 3 ²/₃ innings against the Red Sox. His four-seam fastball velocity was down in that recreation, averaging 93.8 mph, but it ticked back up to 94.4 (nearer to his season average of 95) on Friday.
Entering the sport with two outs in the underside of the sixth, Warren walked the first batter he confronted on 4 pitches before settling in and single-handedly offering the bridge to the ninth inning.
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