After blowing 4 late leads, Yanks finally hold off KC in 11

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — DJ LeMahieu led off the 11th inning with an RBI double and the New York Yankees, after blowing four late leads, finally held off the feisty Kansas City Royals 8-6 on Monday night.

Brett Gardner drove home another run in the 11th with an infield single, and Tyler Wade scored on a throwing error by second baseman Whit Merrifield to make it 8-5.

But the Royals, who tied the score in each of the previous four innings, refused to go down easily once again. They got a two-out RBI single from pinch-hitter Edward Olivares and brought the potential winning run to the plate before Carlos Santana grounded out to end a game that took 4 hours, 52 minutes.

Wandy Peralta earned his third major league save — the first two came with San Francisco earlier this season.

Luke Voit, activated from the injured list Sunday, snapped a scoreless tie with an RBI single in the seventh and hit a tiebreaking homer in the ninth for New York. Aaron Judge had a run-scoring single in the eighth to make it 2-1.

Kansas City became the first team since 1900 to erase a deficit in the seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th innings of a game, according to STATS.

The Yankees got single runs in the seventh, eighth and ninth, but the Royals kept answering. Ryan O’Hearn’s sacrifice fly in the seventh, Andrew Benintendi’s single in the eighth and Nicky Lopez’s single in the ninth each tied the score.

New York got two in the 10th on a sacrifice fly by Kyle Higashioka and a single by Gardner. Kansas City evened it once again on a sac fly by Jarrod Dyson and a single by Hanser Alberto.

Clay Holmes (4-2) got the win. Greg Holland (2-5) took the loss.

Giancarlo Stanton’s 122 mph double-play grounder in the first inning matched his own mark for the fastest exit velocity of a ball put in play in the...

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