Sanchez-fueled Yanks penning thrilling script

NEW YORK — The slow jogs have almost become a nightly event for Gary Sanchez, who insists that he doesn’t hear a thing while making that 360-foot trip around the basepaths. If so, the rookie might be the only one not caught up in an exciting display that has kept the Yankees in the postseason chase.

Sanchez continued his torrid month on Friday with the 10th home run of his young career, part of a three-hit, four-RBI performance as the Yankees routed the Orioles, 14-4. Sanchez’s fifth-inning blast off Vance Worley was celebrated with loud chants of his name from an announced crowd of 38,423 at Yankee Stadium.

“When I’m running the bases, I actually don’t hear anything,” Sanchez said through an interpreter. “There’s a lot of emotions within me when I’m running the bases that sort of block everything else. I don’t hear anything. Just keep on running.”

And just keep on swinging. Summoned to New York for an Aug. 3 contest against the Mets, Sanchez has enjoyed an all-out assault on both big league pitching and the record books. In 85 plate appearances, he has compiled a robust .403/.459/.883 split line, with seven doubles and 20 RBIs, including a two-run double in the second inning of Friday’s win.

“He continues to swing the bat extremely well, seems to center every baseball he hits,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. “He’s patient, he gets his pitch and he’s not missing it right now.”

Sanchez is just the third player to hit 10 homers in his first 22 career games; the Rockies’ Trevor Story did it this year, and Boston’s George Scott enjoyed a similar run back in 1966. Yet perhaps Sanchez’s most impressive company resides in Monument Park.

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