 three homers as Ryan Rucco said during the game that matches his Homer total for 2017 and 2018 combined two seasons combined All right We take a look at the most homers in a month by Toyota Yankees add to their all-time lead They now have 70 in the month of August and here's a fun little fact to share with your friends Seventh game this month for the Yankees when they have four homers or more and Aaron Boone reminded everybody yesterday He doesn't mind that his guys hit home runs. No, and he never should I love when Aaron Boone answers the questions about home runs because when you do think about it Someone complaining about a team hitting home runs just complaining about that fact is about as idiotic a statement as you could ever make We all understand that you want your offense to be multifaceted You want to be able to hit with runners in scoring position and you want to be able to hit in the clutch We get all of that but complaining about home runs is ridiculous So that's why I think Boone sort of gives some of those tongue-in-cheek answers And as our research staff has pointed out the teams that succeed in the post heat season are the teams that get the majority of their runs By home runs it is a fallacy to think that while you have to be able to string three or four hits together in a row That's how you win in the postseason you went in the postseason by obviously pitching very well But also hitting the ball out of the ballpark But having said that now the Yankees are gonna win games like they did last night tonight with a home run ball They've had plenty of other games this season where it's been LeMahieu with a hit judge or Voight Sanchez Torres they have strung those things together. They have redefined who they are as a team in terms of hitting I was absolutely going to use that same word redefined I think LeMahieu has helped to redefine that line up And when you go back to the offseason and talk to the Yankees about why they felt LeMahieu was such a good fit It was about putting the ball in play. It was about a guy who had a contact percentage of close to 90% He's even chipped in with 23 home runs But LeMahieu is about hitting the ball to all fields putting the ball in play coming through when there are runners on base And then you look at some of the other players who have filled in or shella gives you good at bats Talkman gives you good at bats. We've talked about Ford We've talked about maybe all of these players who are viewed as fill-ins or substitutes They go up there and they have such discipline and such smartness at the plate that they're giving solid at bats So all of that plus four home runs today leads to a 7-3 Yankees win for more on that