Grisham Goes Yard Twice as Yankees Erase 4-Run Hole

Trent Grisham went 3-for-5 with 2 home runs, 4 RBI, and 3 runs scored as the Yankees rallied from a 4-1 deficit to beat Seattle 10-5 on August 12. The story of the night was a lineup that refused to let an ugly early hole define the game.

Seattle came out swinging. Randy Arozarena put the Mariners up 2-0 in the first with a 349-foot shot to right that scored Young, then Julio Rodriguez followed it immediately with a 378-foot homer of his own to make it 3-0 before New York had even blinked. Dominic Canzone added a 397-foot blast to right center in the third to push it to 4-1, and it looked like the Yankees were in serious trouble. That's when Spencer Jones changed the game. His double to left in the third scored Rice and Wells, cutting the deficit to one and swinging the home win probability from 30% to 51% — a 22-point shift that flipped the entire complexion of the night.

Seattle answered in the fifth, with a Naylor single scoring Arozarena to push the lead back to 5-3. But New York wouldn't stay down. Grisham launched a 364-foot homer to right to make it 5-4, and Jones doubled again — this time to center — to score Rice and tie it at five. Will Warren had given up 5 earned runs across his 4.0 innings, but the offense had done enough to keep the Yankees alive. Then the seventh inning arrived and New York took over completely. Grisham doubled to center to score Lombard Jr. for the lead, Rice singled to score Grisham, and a bases-loaded walk to Chisholm Jr. scored Rice to make it 8-5. Three runs, no Seattle response, and the game was effectively over.

Grisham put the finishing stamp on it in the eighth with a 398-foot two-run shot to right center — his second homer of the night — scoring Lombard Jr. and pushing the final to 10-5. On the pitching side, Bryce Miller took the loss after allowing 5 earned runs on 8 hits across 6.0 innings, and it appears the Yankees' bullpen arms — Brent Headrick (1.0 IP, 3 K, 0 ER) and Tim Hill (1.0 IP, 1 K, 0 ER) — did their jobs cleanly once the offense took control. The Mariners got contributions from Arozarena (1 HR, 2 RBI), Rodriguez (1 HR, 1 RBI), and Canzone (1 HR, 1 RBI), but three solo-ish efforts weren't enough to hold off a New York lineup that looks capable of manufacturing runs in bunches when it gets rolling.