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Headley keeps up surge with late heroics
- Updated: May 15, 2016
NEW YORK — His extra-base hit drought now firmly behind him, Chase Headley continues to produce for the Yankees.
Headley didn’t start Sunday’s series finale against the White Sox, but he was the one who delivered the decisive hit in New York’s 7-5 win at Yankee Stadium. The switch-hitting third baseman ripped a pinch-hit, two-out, tiebreaking RBI double to the center-field wall in the bottom of the seventh inning.
Headley is hitting .333 in his last nine games, including Sunday’s double and a pair of home runs — the first of which, on Thursday, ended a streak of 126 plate appearances without an extra-base hit that spanned the end of last season and the first month of this one. Now, he has three extra-base hits in four days.
“He went through a really hard time. And it was for a while. But he has pulled himself out of it, and he had a huge hit for us today,” manager Joe Girardi said.
When Headley was mired in his slump, he was fielding advice from all sides, trying to …
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