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Ben Rice hits 39th homer, Cole becomes winningest No. 1 draft pick as Yanks cruise past D-backs 9-2 · Best of: Features

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  Ben Rice hit thirty-ninth homer Cole became winningest number one draft pick
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  as Yanks cruise past D Backs 9 2. Written by David Brandt
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  This article is being read by an automated voice, generated by Everlet.
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  Phoenix, the AP. Ben Rice hit his thirty ninth homer of the
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  season, Garrett Cole became the winningest number one overall draft pick, and
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  the New York, Yankees used a five run first inning to take
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  control early and beat the Arizona Diamondbacks nine two on Friday night.
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  After learning three time AL MVP Aaron Judge was headed back to
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  the injured list with a right calf strain, the Yankees won for
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  the eighth time in ten games. New York, which has already clinched
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  a playoff spot, is four games behind the Tampa Bay Rays in
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  the AL East, with nine games remaining. The D back have lost
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  three straight and their playoff hopes are in major trouble. They're five
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  games back of the final NL Wildcard with eight games left. New
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  York's first five batters reached against D Back's All Star left hander
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  Eduardo Rodriguez and George Lombard Jr. Quote S2 run single made it
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  five zero. Lombard added a solo homer in the sixth and finished
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  with three RBIs. Cole, nine nine, bounced back from a pair of
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  starts that saw him surrender seven homers, the most he's ever given
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  up over a two game span. He gave up two runs and
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  four hits in six innings, striking out six. Selected first by Pittsburgh
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  in twenty eleven, Cole won his one hundred sixty second game, that
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  is one more than Mike Moore, picked number one by Seattle in
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  nineteen eighty one. Rodriguez, fifteen seven, picked a bad time to have
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  arguably his worst start this season, needing forty five pitches to get
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  three outs, his career high for a first inning. He gave up
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  seventh runs, five hits, and four walks over five and one third
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  innings. Corbin Carroll hit a two run homer to cut the deficit
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  to five two in the second. Rice's solo homer in the third
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  pushed the Yankees ahead six two. Up next. The D Backs send
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  R HP Brandon Fatt seven three three point seven seven ERA to
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  the mound Saturday night, while the Yankees counter with RHP Camp Schlitler,
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  fourteen six, one point nine five, see the AP's full MLB coverage
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  here.