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Try it freeDENVER — That’s more like it.
A day after the Yankees allowed the Rockies to enjoy a rare victory, a brief escape from the worst 50-game start to the season in baseball’s modern era, reality set back in.
This is how 30-20 versus 9-42 is supposed to look: in the midst of the Yankees’ 10-run fifth inning, Paul Goldschmidt lined an RBI single to right field that Rockies second baseman Adael Amador could only throw his glove up at, unsuccessfully, of course.
It may as well have been a white flag as the Yankees went on to wallop the Rockies 13-1 in front of 43,186 on Saturday afternoon at Coors Field.
The Yankees’ bats were quiet on Friday night outside of Aaron Judge and Goldschmidt, and that was the case again early on Saturday before the fifth-inning outburst in which the Yankees sent 14 men to the plate and scored 10 of them — the second time this season they have recorded a 10-run inning.
All 11 Yankees who took a plate appearance had at least one hit on the day, with six of them recording multi-hit efforts — led by three-hit games from Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger, Anthony Volpe and DJ LeMahieu — as the Yankees (31-20) racked up a season-high 21 hits.
It was more than enough offensive support for Max Fried, who worked quickly over 7 1/3 innings of one-run ball — on just 83 pitches — to continue his terrific start to the season.
The left-hander, who scattered six hits and one walk while striking out seven, kept his ERA at 1.29 in his 11th start.
The Yankees will now be tasked with taking the rubber game on Sunday to make sure they avoid handing the Rockies their first series victory of the season.