NEW YORK _ The Astros stood along the railing of their dugout Sunday night at Yankee Stadium out of Re2pect to No. 2 on Derek Jeter Night, watching the ceremony to retire his number and unveil his plaque. Carlos Beltran even popped out to present his ex-teammate with a members-only blazer for the Monument Park club.
Then the game started, and Houston didn't show much respect to No. 19 of the Yankees, Masahiro Tanaka.
After they dropped the opener of Sunday's doubleheader, 11-6, the Astros pounded Tanaka for three homers and six runs in the first inning of the nightcap. That escalated quickly. Alex Bregman, who wears No. 2 in honor of Jeter, capped the barrage with his first grand slam.
Tanaka served up two homers to George Springer in two innings and allowed eight runs and seven hits before Joe Girardi came out for a mercy pulling with two outs in the second. Houston went on to win the second game, 10-7, giving the team with MLB's best record three wins in the four-game measuring-stick series.
Tanaka flashed a bad sign when Springer opened the game with a drive to Monument Park. He flashed another when Josh Reddick blasted the next pitch off the facing of the second deck in right.
With two outs, Bregman sent a souvenir to the bleachers in left for the 6-0 cushion.
Springer opened the second with a homer to right-center. And when Beltran hammered a two-out RBI double off the right-center wall, it was 8-0. Tanaka, now 5-2 with a 5.80 ERA, got booed off the mound.
It was 9-0 before Charlie Morton (5-2) gave up four runs in the fifth, the last three on Matt Holiday's seventh homer. Morton struck out 10 in 5 2/3 innings.
The day shift went better for the Yankees (22-13).
The Astros (26-12) grabbed a two-run lead with a three-run top of the seventh.
The Yankees countered with a six-run bottom half highlighted by a tiebreaking three-run triple by a slump-ridden Chase Headley. They were on their way to their 10th comeback victory.
"There's no panic," Headley said. "Obviously, there's some urgency ... Obviously, when you've done it before, I think it gives you confidence that you can do it again."
Brett Gardner got the seventh going for the Yankees with a one-out single off Will Harris (1-1). Jacoby Ellsbury doubled Gardner to third.
Holliday singled to cut the Yankees' deficit to 6-5. Chris Devenski replaced Harris and Starlin Castro greeted him with a double to tie it 6.
Aaron Judge was intentionally passed, loading the bases. Didi Gregorius then struck out on three pitches.
So Headley stood in at 1-for-last 24. But he lined a ball to right-center that rolled all the way to the wall to give the Yankees the lead for good at 9-6.
"It was pretty important not only for myself but the team," Headley said.
Chris Carter followed by lining a double to left to make it 10-6.
Chad Green, just called up earlier in the day, threw 3 2/3 innings of no-run, one-hit work in relief of Luis Severino, who lasted just 2 1/3 innings and allowed three runs, six hits and three walks. Adam Warren (1-0) earned the win in relief, despite allowing the three runs in the seventh.
The Astros had held a 3-1 lead heading for the home fourth. But Castro cracked the tying two-run homer to right. And Judge followed by launching a 441-foot solo rocket off the facing over the black glass side of the restaurant beyond Monument Park _ his 14th homer and sixth of at least 435 feet, both major league-leading figures.
