The Yankees took all three games from the Cardinals over the weekend, completing their first sweep since early July against the Mariners. Offense was at the forefront of the successful three-game stretch, the team scoring 24 runs in St. Louis. There were plenty of impressive performances up and down the lineup over the weekend, but none caught the eye more than Ben Rice’s seven RBIs in the middle game, which tied his career-high and earned back-to-back nominations for At-Bat of the Week.
We join Rice with one out in the fourth and runners on the corners following a pair of one-out singles from José Caballero and Trent Grisham. New York jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first, but Max Fried surrendered five unanswered to put his offense on the back foot. They clawed one back in the third on