On this Memorial Day Monday, the New York Yankees battled back to a 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals. It marks the second consecutive day in which the Yankees rallied in the ninth inning of what seemed to be an all but certain loss. After the Royals took the lead on an eight inning homerun by Bobby Witt Jr, the Kansas City crowd was electrified watching and waiting to pick up the win. A win that would have ended a streak of 11 consecutive games in which the Yankees organization had won over them. Ultimately, the results would get flipped in the ninth inning and the Bronx Bombers would pick up the victory. So let’s breakdown the three takeaways from the ballgame.

OUT #1: ANOTHER PITCHERS DUEL

The pitching match up of Will Warren and Michael Wacha wouldn’t necessarily seem like the kind of matchup that would be a pitcher’s duel. However, that is exactly what happened Monday afternoon. When examining the pitching line, Will Warren had a pitching line of six innings, allowing three hits, two earned runs, on three walks with three strikeouts, while serving up a homerun to Salvador Perez. On the other side of the field, Michael Wacha would pitch seven innings of two run baseball with five strikeouts, two base on balls, and giving up five hits, one of which was a homerun to Cody Bellinger.

Both pitchers would give their respective ballclubs what was needed to be successful, a quality start. When you have a low scoring game of this nature each run comes at a premium. And both starters more than adequately delivered what was needed.

Following the departure of the starter, each bullpen on both sides would give up a run. For the Yankees, Jake Bird would come in and serve up the go-ahead homerun to Bobby Witt Jr in the bottom of the eighth inning. The Witt Jr homerun was one of only two hits surrendered by the Yankee bullpen in this game. (Brent Headrick would give up the other hit.)

When it comes to the Royals’ bullpen, Lucas Erceg, who’s serving as the Kansas City closer would a rough ninth inning. After getting Cody Bellinger to ground out, Paul Goldschmidt would single. Following that hit Jazz Chisholm Jr would hit a hustle double and there would be runners on second and third. And that would lead to Anthony Volpe coming to the plate.

OUT #2: VOLPE COMES UP CLUTCH

With two runners on and only one out the infield had to be drawn in for the Anthony Volpe at-bat. Erceg would get ahead 0-2 after a called strike, and a foul ball. The third pitch would be a ball down and away from the righty hitting Volpe. And then the fourth pitch would be a slider down in the zone and Anthony was able to line it into the outfield over the drawn in infield. (To Anthony’s credit, the hit would have likely landed even if the infield wasn’t drawn in, but it was so it was an easy run scoring single.) Volpe would then attempt to go to second base on the throw and would ultimately be tagged out between first and second, for the second out of the innings. But Volpe already did the job necessary and drove in the tying and go-ahead runs.

OUT #3: JAZZ SEEMS OK AFTER INJURY SCARE

On the hustle double, Jazz Chisholm Jr would have an awkward entry into second base. Jazz went into second standing, but would be using an awkward standing “swim move.” This would lead to the Yankee trainers and manager Aaron Boone coming out to check on the second baseman. It seemed as Jazz may have tweaked either his knee or ankles in the process of the weird entry on the double.

That being said, Jazz would remain in the game and would be the go-ahead run on the Anthony Volpe clean single in the following at-bat. Chisholm would seem to run the bases on that hit without any hinderance as he would slide into home plate as what would ultimately be the Yankees winning run for their 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Memorial Day Monday.