Cody Bellinger’s towering solo home run with one out in the seventh was the Yankees’ first hit against Cease, a game-tying solo shot into the second deck in right. Cease struck out nine in the loss for San Diego, walking two batters with the one hit allowed. He was removed from the game one batter after Bellinger’s blast with an apparent injury.

The back-and-forth affair ended with a pinch-hit, walk-off sac fly from J.C. Escarra to give the Yankees a win over the Padres.

The Padres went up 3-1 in the top of the eighth on walks by Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado off reliever Ian Hamilton and Merrill’s RBI single and Xander Bogaerts’ sacrifice fly off Yankees closer Luke Weaver.