NEW YORK (Interstat) — Amed Rosario launched two home runs, including a decisive three-run shot in the eighth inning, to power the New York Yankees to a 5-3 comeback victory over the Athletics on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium.

The Yankees, improving to a major league-best 8-2, trailed 3-1 entering the bottom of the eighth before erupting for four runs against the Athletics’ bullpen to snatch the win. The Athletics fell to 3-7 with the loss, their fifth in six games.

For seven innings, the game was a taut pitchers’ duel defined by early offense and subsequent silence. Yankees starter Cam Schlittler navigated through early trouble, surrendering all three runs in the third inning but little else. He finished with five innings pitched, allowing five hits and three earned runs while striking out seven.

Oakland’s rally in the third began with consecutive singles by Max Muncy and Jeff McNeil. Denzel Clarke moved them over with a sacrifice bunt, setting the stage for Nick Kurtz, who laced a two-run double to center field. Tyler Soderstrom followed with an RBI double that caromed off a fan’s glove in right field, scoring Kurtz for a 3-1 Athletics lead.

That advantage looked sturdy behind the work of Athletics starter Aaron Civale. The right-hander was brilliant, holding a potent Yankees lineup to just one run on two hits over five strong innings. The lone damage against him was a solo home run by Rosario in the second inning that briefly gave New York a 1-0 lead. Civale struck out six and walked two.

The Yankees’ offense, which had mustered only three hits through seven innings against Civale and reliever Justin Sterner, finally broke through in the eighth against Mark Leiter Jr. Cody Bellinger led off with a single and Ben Rice followed with a bloop single to right. Giancarlo Stanton then delivered a clutch line-drive single to center, scoring Bellinger to cut the deficit to 3-2.

After Jazz Chisholm Jr. flew out, Rosario stepped in. On a 1-1 pitch, he connected for his second homer of the night, a no-doubt drive to left field that cleared the bases, scoring Rice and Stanton ahead of him. The three-run blast turned a one-run deficit into a 5-3 Yankees lead, sending a crowd of 39,853 into a frenzy.

Rosario, who entered the game hitting just .111 (2-for-18) over his previous five contests, finished 2-for-4 with four RBIs, single-handedly driving in all five Yankees runs.

The most important part of the game was unquestionably Rosario’s eighth-inning at-bat. With the Yankees facing a late-inning deficit and the Athletics on the verge of securing a rare road win, Rosario’s three-run homer was a sudden and decisive swing that encapsulated the Yankees’ early-season resilience and the Athletics’ ongoing bullpen struggles. It transformed the entire narrative of the game in one moment.

The Yankees’ bullpen quartet of Fernando Cruz, Jake Bird, Brent Headrick and David Bednar was flawless over the final four innings. Cruz (1-0) earned the win with 1 1/3 perfect innings of relief. Headrick struck out the side in the eighth, and Bednar worked a 1-2-3 ninth for his fifth save of the season.

Leiter Jr. (0-1) took the loss for Oakland, charged with four runs on four hits while recording only one out in the fateful eighth.

The game, which took 2 hours and 58 minutes, saw the Athletics collect six hits to the Yankees’ eight. Oakland’s offense went quiet after the third, managing just two hits and three walks over the final six innings against New York’s relievers.

The victory aligned with pregame projections, as Interstat’s ELO system gave the Yankees a 66.9% probability to win, and their game simulator predicted a 6-3 New York final.

The two teams continue their three-game series Wednesday night in the Bronx. The Athletics will look to even the set before heading to Citi Field for a weekend series with the Mets. The Yankees, after concluding this homestand Thursday, embark on a road trip to face the Tampa Bay Rays starting Friday.