Yankees' Spencer Jones crushes no-doubter for first MLB homer in win over Guardians

Gary Phillips, New York Daily News on Jun 9, 2026

Published in Baseball

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CLEVELAND — Spencer Jones finally demonstrated his impressive pop in The Show on Tuesday, drilling his first major league home run in the Yankees’ 3-2 win over the Guardians.

Jones got the Yankees on the board in the second inning when he launched a two-run blast off Cleveland starter Slade Cecconi. A no-doubter, the ball traveled 443 feet before landing among the trees and shrubs that decorate Progressive Field’s batter’s eye. That made the milestone easy to retrieve; Jones and the Yankees didn’t have to negotiate with any fans to get it back.

Jones ripped the pitch, an 87.2-mph cutter down the heart of the plate, 112.2 mph.

The 25-year-old Jones, recalled when Aaron Judge went on the injured list last week, struggled during his first cup of big league coffee earlier this season, showing some of the strikeout and in-zone contact concerns that tempered expectations of him as a prospect. But he’s looked better in his first few games back — he went 3 for 3 in his return on June 5 — and has brought his average up to .278 after going 2 for 4 on Tuesday.

His OPS, meanwhile, is at .722.

Jones wasn’t the only Yankee to go deep on Tuesday, as Jazz Chisholm Jr. broke a 2-2 tie with a solo homer in the eighth inning.

The Guardians, assisted by some iffy defense from Anthony Volpe, scored two runs off Gerrit Cole in the third inning.

Cole, making his fourth start back from Tommy John surgery, totaled four innings, five hits, two earned runs, two walks and four strikeouts. He’s now thrown a season-high 83 pitches in back-to-back starts.