New York Yankees at Oakland Athletics: Final Score & Recap

The New York Yankees completed a dominant shutout victory over the Oakland Athletics on June 28, 2023, at Oakland Coliseum, winning 11-0 in a game that was never particularly close. The DiamondIQ model entered with Oakland holding just a 25% win probability, and by the final out that figure had fallen to 0%. New York put together 11 hits while Oakland managed none, with the Athletics compounding their struggles by committing three errors. The Yankees' offense did most of its damage against Oakland starter JP Sears, who was at the center of nearly every significant win-probability swing in the contest.

The decisive stretch came in the fourth and fifth innings, where the Yankees effectively ended any remaining uncertainty in the outcome. Giancarlo Stanton's home run off Sears in the fourth inning carried a win-probability swing of plus 11.8%, and the fifth inning proved even more damaging when Kyle Higashioka's double off Sears added another 12.7% to New York's win probability during a six-run frame. DJ LeMahieu's single in that same fifth inning contributed an additional plus 8.0% swing as the Yankees pulled away decisively. By contrast, the model's two largest negative swings for New York — Josh Donaldson's strikeout at minus 8.1% and Anthony Rizzo's lineout at minus 7.5%, both also off Sears in earlier innings — were ultimately rendered irrelevant by the offensive outburst that followed.

Stanton led all position players by WPA, finishing at plus 14.1% with a RE24 of plus 2.0, while Isiah Kiner-Falefa contributed plus 9.3% WPA and a RE24 of plus 1.9. Higashioka added plus 9.0% WPA on the pitching side, Domingo Germán led Yankees hurlers with a plus 4.5% WPA contribution in the combined shutout effort that held Oakland hitless across nine innings.