Alex Verdugo, Yankees hope to clean up again vs. Brewers

No one knows for sure how long the assignment will last, but Alex Verdugo was a smash hit in his debut Saturday as the New York Yankees' cleanup hitter. Yankees manager Aaron Boone shook up his lineup before New York battered the host Milwaukee Brewers 15-3 to even their three-game series. Boone didn't say if Verdugo would remain in the No. 4 spot in Sunday's finale — but why not? Verdugo was 3-for-5 with four RBIs out of the cleanup spot, and he put New York on top 3-0 in the top of the first, turning on a slider from Milwaukee's Joe Ross and crushing it 389 feet over the wall in right-center field.