Yankees waste late comeback, 2 Aaron Judge homers in loss to A's

Gary Phillips, New York Daily News on May 10, 2025

Published in Baseball

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Two solo home runs from Aaron Judge and a go-ahead homer from Oswald Peraza weren’t enough for the Yankees to pull off a comeback win on Saturday, as they fell to the Athletics, 11-7.

The Yankees put themselves up 6-4 with a five-run sixth, but that lead was quickly erased after some catchable balls off the bats of Brent Rooker and Tyler Soderstrom fell near Jasson Domínguez and Trent Grisham in the seventh. Shea Langeliers capitalized on the knocks, crushing a three-run homer off Fernando Cruz’s signature splitter, which lacked its typical bite on Saturday.

The jack put Sacramento up for good, though the A’s tacked on a few more runs in the eighth on a two-run single from Soderstrom and a two-run double from Langeliers.

Home runs put the Yankees in an early hole as well, as Carlos Rodón surrendered a bases-empty blast to Luis Urías in the second inning before Rooker added a three-run homer in the third.

Rodón didn’t permit any other runs over six innings, and he struck out a season-high 10 batters without walking anyone.

Judge, a Linden, Calif., native who grew up about an hour away from West Sacramento’s Sutter Health Park, put the Yankees on the board with his first homer of the day, a fourth-inning shot off ex-Yankee JP Sears.

The sixth inning saw Judge go deep again, a rude welcome to the game for A’s reliever Justin Sterner. That long ball sparked a rally, as Cody Bellinger and Anthony Volpe followed with a walk and a double, respectively, before an Austin Wells sac fly put the Yankees down one.

Oswaldo Cabrera later knotted the game with his own sac fly, while a hyped-up Peraza broke the tie with a two-run homer off Sterner, who entered the game with a 0.00 ERA.

While all that offense couldn’t secure a win, Judge, who added an RBI groundout off Mason Miller in the ninth, continued his brilliance at the plate this season. With 14 homers, 37 RBIs and a .396 average, the Yankees’ captain is pacing the majors in all three Triple Crown categories.

With the Yankees bested on Saturday, they will try to win a rubber match in Sunday’s series finale. They’ll have to go through another former Yankee to do that, as Luis Severino is scheduled to face his former employer for the first time.

The Yankees had yet to officially announce a Sunday starter at the time of publication, though Ryan Yarbrough, a longman in the bullpen with starting experience, was expected to provide innings in some capacity.