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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — – Gerrit Cole<\/a> struck out 10 while pitching into the seventh in a second stellar start since his return from Tommy John surgery, and the New York Yankees<\/a> beat Kansas City 7-0 on Wednesday night to run their winning streak to 14 straight over the Royals.<\/p>\n Cole (1-0) threw 79 pitches over 6 2\/3 innings, allowing four hits without a walk. The superlative performance by the 35-year-old former Cy Young Award winner came after Cole had allowed two hits over six scoreless innings against Tampa Bay<\/a> in his first major league start since Game 5 of the 2024 World Series against the Dodgers.<\/p>\n Ben Rice<\/a> had three RBI, Ryan McMahon<\/a> hit a two-run homer and Paul Goldschmidt<\/a> and Aaron Judge<\/a> also drove in runs, sending the Yankees to their second sweep of the Royals this season. New York has won 22 of its last 23 series against them overall.<\/p>\n Noah Cameron<\/a> (2-4) pitched into the sixth inning for Kansas City, allowing two runs on four hits and a walk.<\/p>\n The Yankees were coming off a memorable 15-1 win Tuesday night<\/a> in which they belted six homers and had 24 hits – and, in a first for one of the game’s historic franchises, every player in the New York starting lineup had at least two hits.<\/p>\n With Cole back on the mound, they only needed a fraction of that Wednesday night.<\/p>\n Goldschmidt got the offense going with a single in the fourth, and Rice delivered an RBI triple off the left-field wall on Cameron’s very next pitch. Judge brought him home with a sacrifice fly later in the inning, staking the Yankees to a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n New York added three more runs in the seventh before McMahon’s homer in the eighth put the game away.<\/p>\n The closest the Royals came to scoring off Cole came in the third, when Michael Massey<\/a> hit a one-out double. Isaac Collins<\/a> struck out to bring up Maikel Garcia<\/a>, who ripped a single to right. Judge fielded it cleanly and threw out Massey at the plate.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n