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Ryan McMahon hit a tiebreaking two-out, two-run homer in the eighth inning as the Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals, 4-2, on Friday night at Yankee Stadium. <\/span><\/p>\n McMahon was an unlikely hero. He had been 5-for-42 (all singles) with 16 strikeouts and a .119\/.260\/.119 slash line. <\/span><\/p>\n With the score tied at 2-2 in the eighth, Ben Rice singled and McMahon lofted a changeup 372 feet to leftfield. The ball appeared to get a push from the wind as it cleared the fence. <\/span><\/p>\n Vinnie Pasquantino hit a tying homer off Camilo Doval with two outs in the top of the eighth and drove in both runs for the Royals (7-13), who have dropped five straight and eight of 10. <\/span><\/p>\n Rice also hit a two-run homer as the Yankees (11-9) won their ninth consecutive game against Kansas City, including a playoff series two years ago. The Yankees are 15-3 against the Royals since the start of 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n Hitters had been 0-for-19 this season against Michael Wacha\u2019s changeup before Rice connected for his sixth homer. Wacha, who has a 1.00 ERA, allowed two runs in six innings.<\/p>\n Cam Schlittler allowed a run, which was unearned, and three hits in six innings in lowering his ERA to 1.95.\u00a0<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n David Bednar struck out two in a hitless ninth for his sixth save. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.newsday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ryan McMahon hit a tiebreaking two-out, two-run homer in the eighth inning as the Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals, 4-2, on Friday night at Yankee Stadium. McMahon was an unlikely hero. He had been 5-for-42 (all singles) with 16 strikeouts and a .119\/.260\/.119 slash line. With the score tied at 2-2 in the eighth, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2378489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[463015,311236],"class_list":["post-2378488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-gamer","tag-new-york-yankees"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Yankees-Ryan-McMahon-hits-tiebreaking-two-run-HR-in-8th-to.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378490,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378488\/revisions\/2378490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2378489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}