 home runs in August they shattered the previous record of 58 and then Gary Sanchez now one Homer shy of his career high which he set in 2017 that was a Yankees record for catchers so again on an afternoon in which you kind of had to outlast a little bit of the shadows some of the bullpen Yankees having to use seven different relievers to get it done but late in the game it was Chapman and Gearon doing a nice job right and we're going to talk a lot about offense as we should four more home runs home runs are up 22% in Major League Baseball that's always going to get headlines that's always going to get attention but you're right Bob after Hermon had to grind his way through five innings the Yankee bullpen actually did a very good job and it wasn't easy there was traffic on the bases and multiple innings the A's had a lot of opportunities you look at Loisica Loisica was one pitch away from walking in a run he was able to climb back out of the sixth inning you look at that tap dance that Chapman did through the ninth inning to make sure that the A's wouldn't score but the Yankees did a good job of keeping it at a tie game when their offense could finally strike it was a little Mayhew who saved the day so real feel good with that home run but there was a little bit of guardedly bad news with Zach Britton he was fourth man out of the bullpen