Jake Cave had four hits and drove in three runs, leading the visiting Colorado Rockies to a 9-2 victory over the New York Yankees on Saturday afternoon.
After the Yankees honored their 2009 championship team at their annual Old-timer’s Day ceremony, the Rockies improved to 19-49 on the road and won for the second time in their past 10 road contests.
The Yankees traded Cave, an outfielder, in 2018 to the Minnesota Twins for right-hander Luis Gil. Cave on Saturday doubled in his first at-bat and hit an RBI single in a four-run third when New York rookie starter Will Warren was called for two balks and catcher Austin Wells committed interference.
After singling in the fifth, Cave lifted a two-run homer in the seventh to give the Rockies a 9-2 lead.
Nolan Jones also drove in three runs with a sacrifice fly in the second inning and a two-run double in the third inning.
Warren was flagged for two balks by plate umpire John Tumpane, setting up Colorado’s big inning.
After Ezequiel Tovar doubled, he advanced to third on Warren’s first balk and scored on Brenton Doyle’s single. Doyle was balked to second base during an at-bat to Ryan McMahon, who struck out.
The Yankees were one strike away from getting through the inning, but Wells was called for catcher’s interference on a foul ball by Michael Toglia.
Cave followed with an RBI single and Jones roped a double off the base of the left-center-field fence to make it 6-0.
Toglia homered and scored four runs as the Rockies finished with 13 hits.
Warren (0-2) yielded six runs (five earned) and one walk with six strikeouts in three innings.
Colorado rookie starter Bradley Blalock (1-0) allowed two runs on five hits in 5 1/3 innings for his first major win. He struck out five and walked four in his third career start.
Aaron Judge went 0-for-2 with a walk in his first chance at reaching 50 homers. He was unable to homer in a fifth straight game and saw a season-high 11-game hitting streak stopped.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit an RBI double and Alex Verdugo homered for the Yankees, who had allowed a total of one run in winning the previous three games.
–Field Level Media
