Austin Wells clutch hit in ninth helped fuel…
Austin Wells seemed misplaced at the plate for a lot of the first half of the season.
Not anymore.
The lefty-swinging catcher continued his resurgence at the plate in Thursday evening’s 6-5, 10-inning win over the Mariners, with a game-tying, two-run single in the underside of the ninth.
He had three RBIs in the comeback win, which was sealed with Aaron Judge’s sacrifice fly in the tenth to full the sweep of the Mariners in The Bronx.
After homering in three of his earlier 4 video games, Wells did his injury in a completely different approach against Seattle nearer Andrés Muñoz.
With the bases loaded and two out, Wells labored the rely full before a single to proper subject scored Trent Grisham — who opened the inning with a base hit — and Cody Bellinger, who’d reached on a one-out single.
Wells also opened the scoring for the Yankees earlier in the sport with a sacrifice fly with the Yankees trailing by 5 runs.
They’d been no-hit for seven innings by Seattle right-hander Bryan Woo until Jazz Chisholm Jr. led off the eighth with a single through the proper aspect of the infield.
Austin Wells rips the game-tying two-run single in the ninth inning of the Yankees’ 6-5 comeback win over the Mariners in 10 innings. Jason Szenes / New York Post
Chisholm received to third when Ben Rice despatched one up the center and with runners on the corners, Wells drove in the Yankees’ first run of the evening.
It added to his current stretch in which Wells has come on robust after it appeared as if he was in the lineup persistently because of his glove and framing capacity as a substitute of his bat — which was fairly a change from his status coming through the Yankees’ minor league system, when Wells was recognized as a bat-first backstop.
Austin Wells hits the game-tying, two-run single in the ninth inning of the Yankees’ 10-inning comeback win over the Mariners. Robert Sabo / New York Post
He shook off an obvious left-hand damage when he was nicked by a foul ball behind the plate in the highest of the sixth, but Wells’ evening was just getting it began.
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