Yankees beat A's while rookie JP Sears extends his scoreless streak

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Last week, JP Sears was pitching before 4,209 fans at Toledo. Now he was getting a standing ovation from a screaming crowd of 38,051 at Yankee Stadium.

"That was awesome. That's something that I really appreciate," the 26-year-old left-hander said Tuesday night after stretching his scoreless streak to 12 2/3 innings and pitching the big league-leading Yankees over the worst-in-majors Oakland Athletics 2-1. "Watching a lot of baseball growing up, it was fun to watch from that side of the TV, so it was fun to be on that side of it tonight."

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New York Yankees' JP Sears throws to an Oakland Athletics batter during the fourth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in New York.  (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

Wearing No. 92, the highest jersey number in Yankees history for a starting pitcher, Sears (3-0) made his second spot start and limited the A’s to three hits in 5 2/3 innings, getting nine groundball outs. Throwing at up to 95.7 mph, Sears mixed fastballs, sliders and changeups among 78 pitches.

Jose Trevino backed him with an RBI single in the first off trade candidate Frankie Montas (3-8), Marwin Gonzalez homered in the second and the Yankees won for the 15th time in 19 games.

Sears then was optioned back to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

"The thing we really pride ourselves on is making this a seamless transition between the major leagues and minor leagues," pitching coach Matt Blake said. "This room does a good job of accepting guys when they come up here and embrace them and get them to just be themselves and it allows them to go out there and be aggressive in the zone."

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