New York Yankees at Washington Nationals

WASHINGTON – Let’s just call them the comeback kids from the Bronx. For the third game in a row, the Yankees took advantage of a big swing late to stun the Nationals. This time it was Ben Rice. Rice cranked a two-out triple off the wall in left-center field to score two in the eighth inning, lifting the Yankees to their seventh sweep of the season in a 5-3 win at Nationals Park. The slugger, playing first base for the first time this series, has reached base a season-high 12 games in a row after his third triple this season. The triple was scorched at 100.8 mph for a Statcast-projected 383 feet, to extend Rice's hitting streak to eight games. Even with all of that, Rice still did not think he got all of it. "No, I didn't think I got it quite right. But I saw it kept going, so I think wind must have been helping it just enough to make it tough wall ball play there,” Rice said. “I was happy that it didn't get caught." Nationals center fielder Dylan Crews collided with the wall as the ball rolled away from left fielder Daylen Lile. Max Schuemann and Trent Grisham scored as the Yankees came back to take the lead after trailing 3-2, marking their 24th comeback win of the season and fourth in a row. The Bombers trailed after seven innings in each of the three games in the series. It was the first time the Yankees had swept a series of three games or more after trailing in the eighth inning or later of every game since May 1910 against Cleveland, per the Elias Sports Bureau. The last Major League team do that was the Rockies against the Giants in June 2014. "That's the mentality we got to have,” Rice said. “We go down in those later innings just knowing that we still got some at-bats left. That's the kind of mentality we need to carry in after the break."