You can’t win them all, especially when Yankees starter J.A. Happ allows eight runs on 11 hits in five miserable innings — snapping the team’s season-best eight-game winning streak.
DJ LeMahieu’s fifth-inning home run off of Astros ace Justin Verlander marked the Yanks 26th consecutive game with at least one longball — a franchise record.
The previous club mark was set by the 1941 World Series champs, when ‘Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio slugged 30 in total.
During the Yankees current barrage of four-baggers, 12 players have combined to hit 45 home runs — paced by Gary Sanchez’s 12, and six from both LeMahieu and Gleyber Torres.