From no-hit to walk-off: Yankees stun the Mariners in a thrilling comeback

New York—The Yankees snatched victory out of the jaws of defeat to take down the Mariners 6-5 in walk-off fashion and complete the sweep. Marcus Stroman got the start for the Yankees and faced off against first-time All-Star Bryan Woo. 

Stroman worked around a two-out walk in the top of the first inning and picked up his first strikeout of the ballgame to work a scoreless frame. 

Jasson Dominguez worked a leadoff walk in the bottom of the first inning. Trent Girsham followed that up with a walk of his own. However, Aaron Judge struck out and Cody Bellinger grounded into a double play to end the threat. 

In the top of the second inning, Stroman served up a RBI single to Cole Young to give the Mariners a 1-0 lead. 

In the top of the fourth inning, Miles Mastrobuoni tacked on another run for the Mariners via an RBI single to make it a 2-0 game. Jorbit Vivas, who got called up yesterday following DJ being DFAed, made a beautiful play at third base to avoid further trouble. 

Stroman retired the Mariners in order in the top of the fifth inning on just 10 pitches. 

Jazz Chisholm Jr, Ben Rice, and Austin Wells went down in order in the bottom of the fifth inning, as Woo has kept the Yankees out of the hit column through five innings. 

Clayton Beeter took over for Stroman on the mound in the top of the sixth inning and worked around a two-hit single to put together a scoreless inning. 

Marcus Stroman's final line: five innings pitched, six hits allowed, two earned runs, two walks, six swings and misses, and three strikeouts on 90 pitches. Stroman threw his sinker 44% of the time, the slurve 19%, the splitter 11%, the cutter 10%, the curveball 10%, the fastball 3%, and the slider 2% of the time. Stroman looked solid tonight, holding the Mariners to just two runs over five innings, but the Yankees' offense did not do him any favors when he was on the mound. 

"I'm just pitching confidently,” Stroman said. “The pitch calling of Wells-Escarra-Rice behind the dish has been incredible. The defense has been awesome. Just being me.”

Anthony Volpe, Jorbit Vivas, and Jasson Dominguez went down in order for the Yakees in the top of the sixth inning. Woo has now retired 17 hitters in a row and has yet to allow a hit. 

Beeter remained in the game for the top of the seventh and picked up the first two outs, and walked two batters. Beeter then served up a hanging slider in a 0-2 count to Jorge Polanco that he crushed for a three-run home run to make it a 5-0 game. 

Woo retired the Yankees in order on just eight pitches in the bottom of the seventh, as the Yankees still do not have a hit. 

JT Brubaker replaced Beeter on the bump in the top of the eighth inning and faced the minimum, thanks to a beautiful throw from Wells to gun down Canzone trying to steal second. 

Jazz grounded a single to right field in the top of the eighth inning for the Yankees' first hit of the ballgame. Rice followed that up with a single up the middle, allowing Jazz to go from first to third. The next batter, Wells, got the Yankees on the board via a sacrifice fly to make it a 5-1 game. A couple of batters later, Giancarlo Stanton launched a pinch-hit two-run home run to put the Yankees within two runs, making it a 5-3 game. 

"I haven't pinch-hit too much and I haven't been the greatest at it either, so it was good,” Stanton said. "Better be a better pinch-hitter if that's the case."

Ian Hamilton replaced Brubaker on the hill in the top of the ninth inning and worked a 1-2-3 inning. 

Grisham led off the bottom of the ninth inning with a rocket line drive single to right field, to bring the tying run to the plate. A couple batters later, Belli ripped a single to right field to extend his hit streak to 15 games and bring the winning run to the plate. Rice then worked a two-out walk to load the bases for Wells. Wells lined a two-run single to tie the game at 5-5, as the Yankees went from being no-hit to tying it up an inning later. 

"Yeah, I think I was up sixth that inning," Wells said. "So I had five great at-bats before me to let me get up there. And, you know, those guys kind of gave me a lot of confidence to go up there and just trust that I was going to get a pitch to hit. So, just looking for a good pitch over and made a good swing on it." 

"Oh wow," Judge said. "You know, like you said, we couldn't get much going against Woo, but this team has a lot of fighting. We're fighting all the way to the end, we had a great ninth inning there to tie it up, you know everybody contributed, everybody did their thing, and then to win it like that, I'm glad Volpe's fast. That was impressive." 

Devin Williams was called up to pitch the top of the 10th inning, taking over for Hamilton, and retired the Mariners in order. 

In the bottom of the 10th inning, Paul Goldschmidt pinch hit for Dominguez and was intentionally walked. Grisham then worked a walk to load the bases with one out for Judge. Judge came through with a walk-off sac fly, bringing Volpe into score on a great slide to end this one 6-5 as the Yankees go from being no-hit to an improvable comeback to sweep the Mariners. 

"My whole thought going into it was get something in the air and let 11 take care of the rest,” Judge said. “There's nothing like it. This is the best place in sports."

The Yankees will welcome the first-place Cubs to the Bronx tomorrow for the final series before the All-Star break. Carlos Rodon will get the starting nod for the Yankees and face off against Chris Flexen for the Cubs. The first pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. ET on the YES Network. 

My thoughts on the game: Before the game today, Jazz announced he will be participating in the Home Run Derby on Monday night, which, honestly, I don't love after watching Judge's struggles in the second half of 2017 following his HR Derby win. As for the game, hands down the best win of the season in my opinion, I truly thought we were going to get no-hit there. Jazz got the Yankees going with their first hit of the night. Stanton launched his first career pinch-hit home run to put the Yankees within striking distance. Wells with the swing of his life, with a huge two-run single off one of the best closers in baseball, All-Star Andrés Muñoz, when the Yankees were down to their final out. Then Judge does what he does best and sends all Yankees fans home happy via a walk-off sac fly. And you can't forget about an unbelievable slide from Volpe on that sac fly. Stroman put together a solid start. I will never complain about five innings of two-run ball from him. Beeter was the one blemish in the bullpen, serving up a three-run home run. Brubaker and Hamilton were both great. And a huge inning from Williams, knock on wood, it really looks like he has been turning it around since the start of June, he has that changeup working right now. On to tomorrow, as the Yankees will have their hands full with the Cubs.