Apr 13, 2025; Bronx, New York, USA; San Francisco Giants center fielder Jung Hoo Lee (51) hits a three-run home run in the sixth inning against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images
Jung Hoo Lee hit two home runs to lift the San Francisco Giants to a 5-4 come-from-behind win and a series victory over the New York Yankees on Sunday afternoon in the Bronx.
The Yankees (8-7) squandered a 3-0 lead and have now lost five of their last seven games.
Starting pitcher Carlos Rodon faced one over the minimum across his first three innings, allowing just a walk before Lee tagged him for the Giants’ first run of the day. On a 3-2 count, he launched an 85-mph slider that hung in the middle of the zone 406 feet over the right-center-field fence.
Rodon ran into trouble in the sixth inning when he yielded a single to Christian Koss before walking Willy Adames. Lee struck again when he took a 1-2 curveball that fell into the upper portion of the strike zone and snuck it over the right-field fence to give the Giants a 4-3 lead.
“I missed execution on that… Just a terrible execution on a curveball, which he punished,” Rodon said. “It’s really frustrating. Up 3-1 in the sixth there, I wanted to hang up a zero and missed execution on a curveball, and I got punished. Just not good enough.”
Entering this series against the Yankees without a home run this season, Lee hit three in the Bronx. He became the first Giant ever to have a multi-home-run game against the Yankees.
Rodon lasted 5.2 innings and allowed just one other hit outside of Lee’s home runs while striking out eight and walking three, but he was saddled with his third loss of the young season. With an ERA now at 5.48, his struggles are just the latest for the Yankees’ starting-pitching woes.
“I thought he was excellent, and a critical mistake with runners on,” Boone said of Rodon. “It’s really one pitch with runners on, a hanging curveball… The two-strike hanger, that hurt. Around that, it was excellent. That’s the next level. We have to try to avoid those.”
San Francisco added one more in the seventh when Koss’ grounder to first snuck under the glove of Paul Goldschmidt for an error, which allowed Casey Schmidt to score from second base.
Goldschmidt had given the Yankees the lead in the first with an RBI single before a run-scoring double from JC Escarra and another RBI single from Ben Rice made it 3-0 in the second.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. pulled one back for the Yankees in the bottom of the eighth with his fifth home run of the season, but closer Ryan Walker closed things out in the ninth in order, including a game-ending, looking strikeout of Aaron Judge.
