Yanks overcome 5-run hole to win

NEW YORK — Aaron Judge hit a tying three-run homer off Alex Colome with two outs in the eighth inning, Gary Sanchez lined a winning single in the 10th, and the New York Yankees overcame a fiverun deficit to beat the Minnesota Twins 6-5 Monday.

New York, its season spinning out of control in the last two weeks, won for just the fourth time in 16 games following a 13-game winning streak. It closed within a half-game of AL wild-card leaders Toronto and Boston with 18 games to play.

Gleyber Torres, who lost his shortstop job and was moved to second base, was the automatic runner on second under pandemic rules when Sanchez singled sharply with one out in the 10th off Ralph Garza Jr. (1-3). Torres scored standing up as the Yankees streamed out of the dugout.

Jorge Polanco and Miguel Sano hit two-run homers in the first inning, and Byron Buxton added a solo homer for a 5-0 lead in the third off rookie Luis Gil.

DJ Lemahieu began the comeback with a sacrifice fly in the sixth that Max Kepler caught with a leap against the right-field wall. Joey Gallo hit his 33rd homer.

Twins manager Rocco Baldelli, taking issue with the calls of plate umpire

Jeff Nelson, was ejected, and Colome relieved.

Judge, back in the lineup a day after leaving in the third against the Mets because of dizziness, sent a cutter to the opposite field in right for his 33rd homer.

Clay Holmes (5-1) pitched the 10th after Aroldis Chapman (6-4) stranded two runners when he retired Polanco on a fly to the center-field warning track, part of four scoreless innings by the Yankees bullpen.

New York ended a sixgame home losing streak, its longest in a decade

Minnesota starter John Gant lasted just 12 pitches and two outs, leaving after straining his lower abdomen.