ST. LOUIS -- When a team goes through rough patches over a long season, it can often be useful to get back to basics and play the style of baseball that helped define the team at its essence.

They’re known as the Bronx Bombers for a reason, after all.

The Yankees muscled up for three homers, Trent Grisham scored a career-high four run, and Ben Rice matched a career high with seven RBIs in a 12-8 win on Saturday night, securing a Players’ Weekend series victory at Busch Stadium.

A matchup between Max Fried and St. Louis’ Sonny Gray might have been fairly billed as a battle of the aces, but it was the offense for both sides which supplied the soundtrack to a muggy, drawn-out night.

Fried battled through five-plus innings and allowed two homers of his own, totaling seven runs surrende

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