Aug 17, 2025

Yankees power back from early deficit to top Cardinals 12-9

Posted Aug 17, 2025 4:38 AM

By MATT PIKE

The New York Yankees muscled up for three homers, Trent Grisham scored a career-high four runs, and Ben Rice matched a career high with seven RBIs in a 12-8 win on Saturday night, securing a eries victory at Busch Stadium over the St. Louis Cardinals.

 Grisham singled four times and scored the four runs, and Ryan McMahon hit his first homer since being acquired by the Yankees to overcome a shaky start by Max Fried.

Masyn Winn hit a three-run homer and Nolan Gorman had a two-run shot for St. Louis as Fried yielded multiple homers for the third time this season.

Sonny Gray (allowed six runs on nine hits in five innings as St. Louis lost its fourth in a row.  Rice had three of New York’s 15 hits and finished a triple short of the cycle.

Aaron Judge led off the third with his 39th home run, which bounced off the top of the wall and into the front row of the right-field bleachers. Judge, who has played his entire career with the Yankees, has now homered against every other major league team.

He also had an RBI double in the first and drew two walks. Judge hadn’t delivered multiple hits in a game since July 13 against the Cubs.

After putting New York ahead with a three-run homer off Gray in the fourth, Rice added a three-run double off reliever Kyle Leahy in the sixth to extend the lead to 9-5.  With a run-scoring single in the seventh, Rice matched his RBI total from July 6, 2024, when he homered three times in a 14-4 win over Boston.

St. Louis and New York wrap up their series tomorrow.  The Cardinals send Miles Mikolas (6-9, 4.97 ERA) to the mound hoping to avoid a sweep against Will Warren (7-5, 4.34 ERA) for the Yankees.  First pitch is at 1:15 with coverage being joined around 1:05 on KY 102 (102.5 FM). 

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