The decisive moment came in the sixth inning, when Indians right fielder Abraham Almonte, the former Yankees minor leaguer, neared the outfield wall and shied away from catching a fly ball hit by Jacoby Ellsbury with two outs and the bases loaded. When the ball hit the base of the wall and kicked away, three runs scored, breaking a 1-1 tie. Ellsbury ended up with a triple, after which he scored on Ronald Torreyes’s single.
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Aaron Judge, who entered Sunday with a .178 batting average since the All-Star break, hit his American-League-leading 35th home run in the seventh, cushioning the Yankees’ lead with three more runs.
Almonte’s gift was a welcome one not only for Ellsbury, who despite his $153 million contract has lost his starting job to the rookie Clint Frazier, but also for a Yankees offense that has floundered for much of the last week and that lost its scuffling designated hitter, Matt…
