Luke Voit Powers Yankees With 2 HRs; Justin Turner's Hot Bat Leads Dodgers Over Padres, 11-1

Players of the Day for Friday, August 24, 2018

American League

Voit: 3-for-5, 2HR, 4RBI

Injuries to key hitters - Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez and Didi Gregorious - have slowed the Yankees scoring of late, but Luke Voit, who looks to replace slumping first baseman, Greg Bird, may provide a short-term answer to New York's hitting drought.

Voit socked a pair of two-run homers - his first two as a Yankee - to lead New York to a 7-5 victory at Baltimore. His first blast came in the fourth inning, tying the game at 2-2. After a see-saw battle resulted in a 4-4 tie after nine innings, Voit followed Niel Walker's solo shot in the tenth with his second smash, putting the Yankees up, 7-4.

Chris Davis homered for the Orioles in the bottom of he inning, but that was all the Orioles could muster, dropping them to 37-91, the worst record in the majors.

Voit has played in just eight games for the Yankees after being acquired from St. Louis at the trading deadline. As a Yankee, Voit is batting .333 (7-for-23).

New York trails the Red Sox in the AL East by 8 1/2 games, but holds the top wild card spot, leading the Oakland A's by four games and Seattle by eight.

The Yankees and Orioles play a split doubleheader on Saturday, with game times at 1:00 and 7:05 pm EDT.

National League

Turner: 2-for-5, HR, 3RBI

With NL West teams Arizona, Colorado and San Francisco all losing on Friday, the Dodgers made it a clean sweep - excepting themselves - with an 11-1 thrashing of last place San Diego.

LA starter, Rich Hill, limited the Padres to two hits and no runs over six innings, allowing the LA batsmen to do damage. Justin Turner singled and homered for the Dodgers, driving in three runs in five at-bats. Turner singled in a run in the second inning and followed with a two-run home run in the fourth, his eighth of the season.

Turner, who spent April and half of May on the disabled list, has gotten his swing grooved of late. He recently had a 14-game hitting streak and is batting .392 in the month of August with five home runs, 13 RBI and 17 runs.

The win lifted the Dodgers to within 3 1/2 games of division leader, Arizona. Colorado trails the Diamondbacks by one game.

LA's home win came in the opener of a three game series with San Diego, after being were swept three straight by the visiting St. Louis Cardinals.

Game two of the series is Saturday, 6:10 pm PDT.