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Series Recap: No crowning around, Yankees crush Royals

Shaking off the rust and literal jetlag from sleeping in Dulles Airport, the New York Yankees continued their winning ways against the Kansas City Royals. Taking two of three, New York won its eighth consecutive series for the first time since 1998, improving to a league-best mark of 30-13.

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GAME 1

It was evident the layoff and layover in Washington didn’t help the Yankees cause in their 5-2 loss. Miscues in the field and “warning track power” made for a long night.

SHAKY GROUND

After a botched play in the first, an error by Gleyber Torres in the third, on a ground ball hit by John Jay, allowed another run to score and prolonged the inning. CC Sabathia issued a walk to Hunter Dozier, which made it 3-0.

Salvador Perez all but put the game out of reach with a solo jack to left in the fifth frame and an RBI-double to right in the seventh.

GAME 2

The Yankees lineup turned up the voltage level and absolutely crushed the Royals in an 8-3 rout.

INSIDE OUT

After a Gary Sanchez double staked them to a 1-0 lead in the first, Aaron Hicks doubled the Yankees’ lead in the third, drilling a ball off the top of the right-field wall, circling the bases for his second inside the park home run of the season. Half of Hicks’ home runs are the inside the park variety on the early campaign.

SIZZLING SWINGS

While the Royals would keep it close early, a three-run homer to left by Torres, off Danny Duffy, broke the game open in the fourth.

Sanchez would drill a couple of laser shots in the seventh and ninth. Giancarlo Stanton hit one on the screws with a no-doubter to center in ninth.

WINNING FORMULA

One couldn’t have drawn it up better on the hill either. Luis Severino tossed another solid outing with six K’s across six frames, yielding eight hits, three runs and two walks. Chad Green, Dellin Betances and Aroldis Chapman combined for three scoreless innings of one-hit, one-walk, four-strikeout ball.

GAME 3

There were a ton of positives to take away from the Yankees 10-1 laugher. Sonny Gray delivered his finest outing of the early campaign and has looked fairly sharp in three of this past four starts. Plus, the offense posted a football score with a lineup void of Sanchez, Didi Gregorius or a hit from Aaron Judge.

SONNY SO FRESH

Pitching on eight days’ rest, Gray spun a gem against Kansas City. Gray held the Royals without a hit through 4.2 frames. In his longest outing of the season, Gray only needed 92 pitches in eight innings of work.

FOOTSTEPS, WHAT FOOTSTEPS?

Competition and being pushed can make for added motivation. Unlike a receiver hearing footsteps of a defender and dropping the ball, some Yankee bats heard the footsteps of Clint Frazier, Greg Bird, Billy McKinney and Brandon Drury and instead dropped the wood.

Tyler Austin smacked a two-run tater to left off Eric Skoglund, staking the Bombers to a 2-0 lead in the fourth.

In the fifth, Hicks delivered an RBI-triple and Austin slugged another two-run homer to center.

Miguel Andujar also chimed in with an impressive opposite field bullet homer in the ninth.

BATTERY MATE, BATTERING MATE

Aside from calling a great game, Austin Romine got it done at the dish. Romine went 3-for-5 with a home run, double, two-RBI and a pair of runs scored on the afternoon.

ON DECK

At 30-13 the Bronx Bombers boast the best record in baseball and travel to Texas to take on the Texas Rangers in a three-game series, starting Monday.

Pitching probables, Masahiro Tanaka vs. Bartolo Colon, Domingo German vs. Cole Hamels, CC Sabathia vs. Doug Fister.