Mike Ford creates good Yankees problem with more homers in win

SEATTLE — Mike Ford has a Princeton University education and a body that resembles a nose tackle’s.

Combine those two attributes with a sweet left-handed swing and you get the latest Yankees first baseman contributing to a season headed for the American League East title.

When the season started, Greg Bird and Luke Voit were at first. Then Bird got hurt. DJ LeMahieu and Voit handled it for a while. Kendrys Morales played several games there, was injured and vanished. Voit went down with a sports hernia and Edwin Encarnacion landed on the IL with a fractured right wrist.

That necessitated the Yankees elevating the left-handed hitting Ford for a third time this year from Triple-A in early August.

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