Overview
- Pavin Smith pinch-hit and drove a cutter from Michael Fulmer into the right-field seats for a two-run, ninth-inning walk-off home run that gave Arizona a 5-3 victory.
- Cam Schlittler worked six innings, allowed three runs with one earned, struck out six, and lowered his ERA to 1.94 while recording his 24th start this season with one earned run or none.
- Schlittler committed a fifth-inning throwing error that set up Jordan Lawlar’s two-run triple, and both runs were scored as unearned because of that miscue.
- The loss pushed the Yankees five games behind the Tampa Bay Rays in the AL East and highlighted late-season urgency for New York after lineup tweaks and uneven late-inning relief work.
- Schlittler remains the clear AL Cy Young frontrunner and is one start shy of matching the live-ball era benchmark for single-earned-run starts, while Arizona’s win gives its slim wild-card hopes a modest boost and sets up Sunday’s series finale between Will Warren and Corbin Burnes.