Yankees use 10-run inning to bounce back in pummeling of putrid Rockies

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.DENVER — That’s more like it.A day after the Yankees allowed the Rockies to enjoy a rare victory, a brief escape from the worst 50-game start to the season in baseball’s modern era, reality set back in.This is how 30-20 versus 9-42 is supposed to look: In the midst of the Yankees’ 10-run fifth inning, Paul Goldschmidt lining an RBI single to right field that Rockies second baseman Adael Amador could only throw his glove up at, unsuccessfully of course.It may as well have been a white flag, as the Yankees went on to wallop the Rockies 13-1 in front of 43,186 on Saturday afternoon at Coors Field.Yankees bats were quiet Friday night outside of Aaron Judge and Goldschmidt, and that was the case again early on Saturday, before the fifth-inning outburst in which the Yankees sent 14 men to the plate and scored 10 of them — the second time this season they have recorded a 10-run inning.All 11 Yankees who took a plate appearance had at least one hit on the day, with six of them recording multi-hit efforts — led by three-hit games from Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger, Anthony Volpe and DJ LeMahieu — as the Yankees (31-20) racked up a season-high 21 hits.It was more than enough offensive support for Max Fried, who worked quickly over 7 ¹/₃ innings of one-run ball — on just 83 pitches — to continue his terrific start to the season.

The left-hander, who scattered six hits and one walk while striking out seven, kept his ERA at 1.29 in his 11th start.The Yankees will be tasked with taking the rubber game Sunday to make sure they avoid handing the Rockies their first series victory of the season.Entering the fifth inning Saturday, the only Yankees run in a 1-1 game was Judge’s solo shot in the top of the first, his 18th home run of the season.But they got aggressive against Rockies left-hander Kyle Freeland to take the ...