NJ.com reports:
Sanchez’s best-career day stole some of the spotlight from his teammates on an afternoon in which the Yankees slugged seven homers and right-hander Domingo German started his day with 5 1/3 no-hit innings.
Outfielder Clint Frazier was 4-for-5 with two homers the day after hitting a game-changing, three-run homer on Saturday night, but Sanchez trumped that with his first career three-homer game.
Sanchez made some headlines earlier in the series by being picked off a base in consecutive games, but he went deep four times in the three games to run his homer total to six, which ties Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Cody Bellinger for the major league lead.
In the series finale against the O’s, Sanchez hit a two-run homer in the third inning off Orioles starter David Hess to stake the Yankees to a 4-0 lead, then he hit another two-homer shot in the seventh off reliever Mike Wright to make it a 7-0 game and he hit his third with a runner aboard in the eighth batting against Dan Straily to make it 11-3.
Sanchez had a shot at a fourth homer in the ninth inning facing infielder Hanser Alberto pitching for the Orioles, but he flied out to shallow left.
There still are things about Sanchez’s game that are far from perfect. His average is a subpar .233, he leads the club with four errors, he’s still polishing up blocking skills that have been atrocious in past years and his recent base-running mistakes ran his club out of threats in the first two games of this series in Baltimore.
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