Colorado Rockies at New York Yankees

The Yankees edged the Rockies 5-3 at Yankee Stadium, getting seven scoreless innings from Cam Schlittler and a decisive three-run homer from Heliot Ramos in the eighth. David Bednar locked down the ninth for the save after Colorado's Hunter Goodman brought the tying run to the plate with a two-run shot. Schlittler threw seven frames, punching out 10 and allowing just one earned run on 96 pitches. The right-hander lowered his ERA to 2.01. Gabriel Hughes gave Colorado five innings and struck out six on 79 pitches, yielding one earned run but taking the loss. His ERA sits at 5.81. New York opened the scoring in the first when Luis García Jr. singled to bring home Cody Bellinger, then advanced to third on two errors by left fielder Jake McCarthy. Adael Amador answered with a solo homer to right center in the third. Ryan McMahon doubled in George Lombard Jr. in the fifth to put the Yankees ahead 2-1, then Ramos crushed an eighth-inning fly ball to center that scored Ben Rice and Bellinger and gave New York breathing room. Goodman's two-run blast in the ninth closed the gap but left the Rockies one run short. The NRFI model showed a lean toward no run in the first. The game stayed scoreless through one. Schlittler matched his 10-strikeout projection exactly; Hughes hit six actual strikeouts in the model window.