Yankees offense puts together rare big inning with a little dose of luck to beat Mariners

It began with a ball struck with authority, Luis García Jr.banging a double off the wall. The rally included the kind of well-aimed luck that has eluded them, Austin Wells’ pop-up into shallow right-center somehow not winding up in a Seattle glove. And for the first time in a long time, there were hits — legitimate, real, ball-to-bat-to-outfield-grass strokes, the kind your grandparents fondly remember witnessing when they were young.  Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.

The frigid Yankees lineup finally broke through, stacking five knocks and one walk together to score four runs in the seventh inning to seize a 4-1 comeback victory over the Mariners in front of 41,407 frustrated, then frenzied, fans in The Bronx on Tuesday. The Yankees (67-52) won for the third time in four games, a span in which Tuesday’s was the lone contest not decided by one run.So many games for the past several weeks have followed a script that featured excellent Yankees pitching, inept Yankees hitting and resulting late-game tension because neither side could create distance. That is how the series opener began, the Yankees down 1-0 — courtesy of a Randy Arozarena sixth-inning home run off an otherwise excellent Ryan Weathers — after six and a half innings, during which the home team managed three hits, none of which came with runners in scoring position. Until the game flipped with Seattle starter Bryan Woo removed.

Against righty Michael Rucker, García scalded a leadoff double.Jazz Chisholm Jr., who even in this season of struggles has struggled acutely recently, found a hole on the right side of the infield to put runners on the corners. A George Lombard Jr.

strikeout felt as if it was the first step to another backbreaking inning, but after a Spencer Jones walk, Ryan McMahon lined a go-ahead two-run single through the left side of the infield to turn a one-run d...