After the Detroit Tigers beat up on the New York Yankees in the first two games of the series, the finale was payback. The Yankees rolled to a 9-3 win Thursday night at Yankee Stadium.
The Tigers won the first two games by a combined score of 23-3, becoming the first visiting team in history to win back-to-back games by 10 or more runs at any version of Yankee Stadium, which first opened in 1923. Detroit (84-63) missed a sweep but still took two of three from New York (81-65).
On Thursday, seven Yankees drove in runs in a game played on the Sept. 11 anniversary with President Donald Trump in attendance. Aaron Judge, who went 0-for-3 with a strikeout and two double plays on Wednesday, responded with two home runs in the first and third innings. The second, a 434-foot blast off Sawyer Gips