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The Yankees lost 3-2 to the Padres on Friday after Luis Campusano hit a two-run walk-off homer in the 10th inning. Ben Rice homered and went 3-for-4, while Spencer Jones delivered an RBI single in his first game at Petco Park, but New York managed only five hits and struck out 15 times. The loss dropped the Yankees to 80-61, four games behind Tampa Bay in the AL East.
Luis Campusano hit a two-run homer off Paul Blackburn in the bottom of the 10th inning, giving San Diego a 3-2 victory.
Rice went 3-for-4 with a solo homer, his 36th of the season, and his 88th RBI.
Jones hit an RBI single against Padres closer Mason Miller in the top of the 10th, scoring automatic runner Luis García Jr. He finished 1-for-4.
The Yankees were one strike away from escaping San Diego with a huge win. Instead, Luis Campusano made sure they left Petco Park with another frustrating loss.
Campusano launched a two-run walk-off homer in the bottom of the 10th inning, sending the San Diego Padres to a 3-2 victory over the Yankees on Friday night.
New York had just taken a 2-1 lead in the top of the 10th when Spencer Jones came through with one of the biggest hits of his young career.
Playing his first game as a big leaguer at Petco Park, Jones delivered an RBI single against Padres closer Mason Miller, scoring automatic runner Luis García Jr. Jones moved to second on the throw and suddenly the Yankees were three outs away from stealing this game.
Then everything unraveled.
Jones tried to take third and was thrown out, while Heliot Ramos struck out to end the inning. Jazz Chisholm Jr. then struck out, leaving the Padres needing only two runs to walk it off.
After Austin Hays reached second as the automatic runner, Xander Bogaerts struck out. That brought up Campusano, and he wasted no time ending it, crushing Paul Blackburn’s pitch into left field for his sixth home run of the season.
Ballgame.
The Yankees had actually played a pretty solid game for most of the night, especially on the mound.
Max Fried gave New York 5.2 innings, allowing 1 run on 4 hits while striking out 4. He kept the Padres from doing much damage after they scored in the second inning on a Bogaerts RBI single following a Ty France double.
Ben Rice provided the Yankees’ first answer in the third inning, hammering a Walker Buehler pitch into the batter’s eye in straightaway center field. It was Rice’s 36th homer of the season and his 88th RBI.
But after that, the Yankees’ offense basically disappeared.
New York finished with just 5 hits and struck out 15 times. Rice was the bright spot, going 3-for-4 with the homer and an RBI. Jones finished 1-for-4 with the huge 10th-inning RBI.
The bullpen had done its job too. Will Warren tossed 2.1 scoreless innings, and David Bednar handled the ninth before Blackburn entered the 10th.
Unfortunately, one bad inning was enough.
The loss drops the Yankees to 80-61 and leaves them 4 games behind Tampa Bay for first place in the AL East. Meanwhile, San Diego improved to 74-67 and moved back into the third National League wild-card position.
Now the Yankees have to turn the page quickly.
Carlos Rodón is scheduled to face Robbie Ray on Saturday, and after letting this one slip away in the 10th, New York needs a response.
Born in Manhattan, New York, Felix Pantaleon is a Dominican-American digital content creator and the founder of NYYNEWS, one of the first and longest-running independent New York Yankees content creator platforms, active since 2005.
