The Yankees beat the Reds on Wednesday as Todd Frazier hit his first homer as a Yankee

The Yankees hit two homers and seven different players had RBI in their 9–5 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday afternoon. This was the first time that the Yankees offense scored at least nine runs in a game since June 30 when they won 13–4.
The Bronx Bombers swept their mini two-game set with the Reds as they won Tuesday’s game 4–2. With Luis Severino’s dominance on Wednesday and the distribution of runs from the offense the Yankees were able to move only one game behind the Boston Red Sox for first place in the American League East.
Also, the Yankees have won five of their last six games to move seven games above .500 (53–46) for the first time since they were 44–37 after beating the Toronto Blue Jays on July 3. Wednesday’s win helped the Yankees keep a one game advantage over the Kansas City Royals for the first wild card spot.
Severino pitched like an ace again as he did not allow an earned run in 7.0 innings pitched (two overall) while giving up only three hits, striking out nine and walking two. Eugenio Suarez doubled to left to score Scott Schebler and Tucker Barnhart grounded out to first to score Suarez but both of those runs were unearned as a result of Didi Greogrius’s error to lead off the inning.
Severino retired the side in order in the second and third innings, and he didn’t allow an extra-base hit until Suarez’s double in the sixth.
The 23-year-old righty has a dominant 2.70 ERA with 38 strikeouts and only eight walks in five July starts. He has been even better in his last three starts as he has pitched 21.0 innings in that span and only allowed one earned run.
Clint Frazier, Gary Sanchez, Matt Holliday, Gregorius, Chase Headley, Todd Frazier and Ronald Torreyes all drove in at least one run for a total of nine for the home team. Seven of those runs were scored with Homer Bailey pitching and two were scored while Tony Cingrani was on the mound.
Clint Frazier drove in the first two runs of the game for the Bronx Bombers. His single to shallow right scored Torreyes in the third and his single to left sent Torreyes home again in the fifth. The rookie with “legendary bat speed” has a .290 average with 13 RBI and nine extra-base hits in 18 games. He has been outstanding in clutch situations since he is 6–14 with a homer, one triple, a .929 slugging percentage and 10 RBI with runners in scoring position.
In the sixth inning, to make the score 4–0, Headley singled to right to score Gregorius and Torreyes’s ground out to the shortstop scored Torreyes. Headley has had a much better average in July than he did in June. Headley, who is now a first baseman with Todd Frazier’s arrival, has a .307 average with six RBI and eight doubles in July.
The Yankees put the game away with five runs in the seventh inning. Clint Frazier walked to leadoff the inning and then Sanchez doubled to left to score the rookie. Holliday then contributed an RBI single to send Bailey out of the game. This was only Holliday’s second RBI in his last 10 games.
Gregorius hit a two-run homer to drive in Matt Holliday in the seventh inning. He has a very productive slash line of .307/.336/.513 with 14 doubles, 16 homers, 43 runs scored and 48 RBI.
His 16 homers puts him in second place among AL shortstops, his .513 slugging percentage is 2nd among shortstops, his .307 average is 3rd best and his 48 RBI is the 3rd highest among shortstops in the AL.
As of late, Gregorius has really been on a hot streak. On his current eight-game hitting streak, he is 15–29 (.517) with five homers, seven runs scored and eight RBI.
Todd Frazier hit his first homer as a Yankee later on in the seventh and it came against the team that he played the first five seasons of his career with. This was a big moment for Frazier since he was wearing Yankee pinstripes for the second game, and he said he had about 500 people come to watch Tuesday’s game from his native Toms River, New Jersey.
This was Frazier’s first multi-hit game since he went 2–4 with two doubles and two RBI on July 3 with the White Sox. The Yankees will start a four-game series at home against division rival Tampa Bay at 7:05 p.m. on Thursday.

