KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Anthony Rizzo and Gleyber Torres all homered and the New York Yankees won their seventh in a row, beat the Kansas City Royals 12-2 Friday night in a rain-shortened game.
The game was called after eight innings.
New York took a 3-2 lead into the seventh before scoring four runs, three on Judge's homer. Torres connected for a two-run drive during a five-run eighth.
Nestor Cortes (1-0) allowed one earned run and eight hits in five innings.
The Yankees wasted little time in putting pressure on Kris Bubic (0-2).