Yankees surrender walk-off homer in extras to spoil Spencer Jones late heroics against Padres

SAN DIEGO — The local boy made good, but it wasn’t enough. After Spencer Jones put the Yankees ahead with a leadoff single in the top of the 10th against Padres flamethrower Mason Miller, his homecoming heroics got spoiled in the bottom of the frame.  Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.Luis Campusano hit a walk-off two-run shot against Paul Blackburn to lift the Padres past the Yankees 3-2 in a playoff-like atmosphere on Friday night at a sold-out Petco Park. Blackburn had not allowed a run in his last 13 ¹/₃ innings before Friday night, or a home run since July 29.

But he picked a bad time to snap both streaks, leaving a first-pitch sinker over the heart of the plate with one out that Campusano crushed to left field to end it. Jones had led off the top of the 10th with a single on Miller’s 100 mph fastball that put the Yankees up 2-1, but was later thrown out trying to steal third. On a night when they lost Trent Grisham to a right hamstring injury, the Yankees (80-61) fell to four games back of the Rays for the division with 21 games to play, with the Red Sox moving within 3 ¹/₂ games of them for the top AL wild card. Max Fried was sharp in his second start back from the injured list for a recurrence of his left elbow bone bruise, building up to 72 pitches across 5 ²/₃ innings of one-run ball.The left-hander pounded the strike zone, allowing him to be efficient and get deeper into the game despite the limited pitch count. With the Yankees moving their pitching around to take advantage of off days Thursday and Monday, Will Warren piggybacked Fried for his second relief appearance of the season and was equally strong.

The right-hander tossed 2 ¹/₃ scoreless innings, allowing just one base runner before handing off to David Bednar to start the bottom of the ninth. But the Padres bullpen matched with zeroes in relief of Walker Buehler, ...