NEW YORK --
\n\nUrshela's two-run, eighth-inning single off Connor Sadzeck provided valuable insurance, a policy that the Yanks cashed when Domingo Santana broke up the shutout with a two-out homer off
One night after the Yanks' hitters were stymied by lefty Yusei Kikuchi -- perhaps with the help of a sticky substance affixed to the underside of his cap -- it was the home team's turn to silence the bats.\n\nSensing better life on his four-seam fastball and using that pitch aggressively, Happ strapped his sinker, slider and change into the back seat as he held the Mariners hitless until Tom Murphy's two-out single in the fifth.\n\n\"I think that \\[four-seamer\\] helped,\" Happ said. \"We were pitching out there. We were mixing. I had a little better drive and a little more consistency on that four-seamer. I think it allows the other stuff to play better.\"\n\nHapp's control was not pinpoint in the three-walk, seven-strikeout effort -- he drilled Dee Gordon on the right wrist in the third inning, forcing the infielder to leave the game and [prompting his ire](https://www.mlb.com/news/dee-gordon-exits-after-hit-by-pitch) \\-\\- but it was much improved over his underwhelming results against the Twins.
\"He’s been fighting hard,\" Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. \"I feel like he’s been really grinding. He’s really tried to find that way, and he’s done a good job of making different adjustments at times. To see him go out, throw it like he did tonight and really pound the zone like he did was really good to see. He was pretty intense throughout that game.\"\n\nSupported only by
\n\nAfter looking at a pair of called strikes, Urshela did not flinch when Sadzeck's slider sailed outside of the zone. The next pitch was a 98.7 mph fastball that Urshela stroked into right field, chasing home