Acce s the Yankees beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees. All the Yankees needed to get their bats going again was to come in out of the cold. With the game-time temperature on Monday night nearing an almost balmy 60 degrees, the Yankees pounded Kansas City right-hander Seth Lugo for four solo homers in a 4-1 win at the Stadium. All of the home runs came from the left side and it was their biggest home run outburst since they hit four in the third game of the season. It came at a good time for a Yankees team that entered the night having lost five of seven games. Like I said, it was cold, said Jazz Chisholm Jr., who was one of the four to go deep. Its getting warm now, so were gonna warm up. Yankees third base Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) solo home run during the fourth inning when the New York Yankees played the Kansas City Royals Monday, April 14, 2025 at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, NY. Robert Sabo for NY Post Carlos Carrasco also had his best outing of the young season, limiting the Royals to just a solo homer by Bobby Witt Jr. in the third inning of his five-inning outing. The bullpen followed with four scorele s innings in the two-hitter, as Devin Williams picked up the save with a scorele s ninth. The Yankees tied the game with one out in the fourth, when Chisholm hit his second homer in Jermaine O'Neal Jersey as many games, a blast into the Yankees bullpen in right-center. They added three more homers in the fifth, the first coming from Trent Grisham, a leadoff homer that gave the Yankees a 2-1 lead and snapped an 0-for-9 skid. Ben Rice followed with his fifth homer of the year two batters later and Austin Wells added another shot with two outs in the inning. We had a handful of good swings from our lefties and were able to jump him, manager Aaron Boone said of the teams succe s against Lugo. Explore More The barrage of homers was enough for the win against Lugo, who had given up just one home run in 16 / innings in three starts prior to Monday. We all know hes very aggre sive in the zone, Chisholm said of their approach against Lugo. The last couple games, hes been in the strike zone a lot before two strikes, so get your pitch early. Three of the four homers, in fact, came on the first or second pitch of the at-bat. Austin Wells of the Yankees reacts as he scores on his solo home run during the fifth inning on April 14, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post Carrasco, the veteran right-hander, allowed just one hit the Witt homer before leaving after 79 pitches. The outing was a vast improvement over Carrascos previous start, when he gave up three home runs. And with Clarke Schmidt set to take the injured Marcus Stromans spot in the rotation and no other help on the horizon the Yankees may continue to rely on Carrasco. The victory came against the perfect elixir for the Yankees: an AL Central opponent, as they improved to 26-9 since 2024. Ben Rice of the Yankees watches his solo home run during the fifth inning on April 14, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post The night got off to a bit of a rough start for the Yankees and Carrasco, who walked two of the first three batters of the game. But he got out of the 26-pitch top of the first without allowing a run and retired seven in a row following his first-inning walk to Vinnie Pasquantino before Witt took him deep with two outs in the third, ending a 10-pitch at-bat with a shot into the left field seats. Pasquantino nearly made it back-to-back homers for the Royals, but Aaron Judge was able to catch up to his fly ball on the warning track in right. After Carrasco retired 14 of the final 15 batters he faced, the bullpen took over to start the sixth, as Fernando Cruz retired all four batters he faced, fanning three, before giving way to lefty Tim Hill and Luke Weaver before Williams finished it. Brian Bowen Jersey