Yankees score – The New York Yankees took control instantly in the top of the third inning, scoring 13 runs off Oakland Athletics pitching for a 13-8 victory—then went hitless for the final six innings as the game settled down.
The Yankees didn’t ease into Sunday’s game at Sutter Health Park. They detonated.
In the top of the third inning. New York sent 18 players to the plate and turned a pitching change into a scoring spree. chasing starter Jacob Lopez and relievers Michael Kelly and Jack Perkins for a historic 13-run inning. Ten runs came before anyone made an out. and the inning ended up being the kind of burst baseball can’t quite explain—except it happened. run by run.
By the time the dust cleared. the Athletics had seen their starters and bullpen get overwhelmed in a stretch that didn’t resemble an MLB outing so much as the scene of a game being played in another world. The Athletics are playing in a minor league ballpark again this year while they wait for their new home to be built in Las Vegas.
New York took full advantage. Lopez was charged with seven earned runs on five hits. Kelly allowed six runs on six hits and two walks, and Perkins, after coming in, was the final piece of the pitching carousel to get dragged into the inning’s chaos—until he finally put a stop to it.
The rest of the game told a different story. In a strange twist, the Yankees did not get a hit for the final six innings, but they still pulled out a 13-8 win. It all came down to the top of the third.
The inning itself was a team-wide barrage, built on 11 hits and four walks. According to the WFAN broadcast, it was the biggest inning the Yankees have had since at least 1974.
Ben Rice was a central force. batting twice in the inning and driving in four runs with a two-run double and a two-run triple. Every starter got two at-bats. Aaron Judge singled and struck out for the second out of the inning. Anthony Volpe added two singles and stole a base. Cody Bellinger had two singles.
Baseball history was close enough to feel in the moment. No Yankees team had ever done that—put up 13 runs in an inning. The last team to post 13 runs in an inning was the Boston Red Sox, last May against the Baltimore Orioles.
For the Athletics, the inning looked like an outlier the rest of the game couldn’t erase. Even after the Yankees went quiet offensively for six innings. the early damage was already done—an impossible-to-overcome deficit that ended 13-8. with the game’s meaning already written in the first three innings.
Yankees Athletics MLB Sutter Health Park Jacob Lopez Michael Kelly Jack Perkins Ben Rice Aaron Judge Anthony Volpe Cody Bellinger Mark Kotsay Las Vegas ballpark
13 in the third is wild… I don’t even watch much but that’s gotta be some kind of record right?
So they scored 13 and then couldn’t get a hit for 6 innings?? That seems backwards lol. Pitching must’ve locked in after that pitching change.
WFAN said biggest inning since 1974 or whatever but idk why people acting like the A’s are just bad. Oakland always has pitching issues… also Las Vegas build delays or whatever, that’s probably why. (Probably not even true but yeah.)
This is why I hate baseball sometimes. One inning is like Madden cheat codes and then the rest is just silence. Also Sutter Health Park? I swear ballparks change everything. Ben Rice driving in 4 runs sounds nice but the Yankees went hitless and still won somehow—luck has to be involved.