Aaron Boone Drops Honest Take About Ben Rice’s Two Homers Against the Rays

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Aaron Boone Drops Honest Take About Ben Rice’s Two Homers Against the Rays

The Yankees earned a crucial 12-4 win against Tampa Bay to split the four-game series. Rice hit two homers that sealed a much-needed win for New York. “Obviously the first home run was huge, but that second one, it felt like a little bit of a dagger. Like, okay, we got this," Boone said. The Yankees improved to 51-42.


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Boone reacted to the Yankees 12 run outburst against the Rays with "That's baseball, Suzyn." It was their first game scoring more than five runs since June 17. The team had been mired in an offensive slump for three weeks. The win gave a much-needed spark to a squad led by Ben Rice with 26 homers this season.

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