Jazz Chisholm, Jr. scores Yankees’ first run on strange play Sunday originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Because the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles were featured in the Roku Leadoff Game of the Week, they started earlier than usual. By the bottom of the second inning, things got weird fast.

NEW YORK — Situational hitting has been a struggle for the Yankees of late. It’s a big reason why they entered play on Sunday morning with seven losses in their last nine games.

For the better part of eight innings on Sunday the Yankees were their own worst enemies. Then ‘Shoeless’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. turned it all around on the Orioles. Chisholm, who scored the club’s first run on a bizarre play that involved a collision with Baltimore catcher Maverick Handley and left him carrying his spikes back to the dugout,