It hasn’t been easy for the Yankees since the All-Star break. They split the first six games, and they left Toronto on Wednesday with a bad taste in their mouths because they didn’t gain any ground on the first-place Blue Jays in the American League East race.

Ninety minutes before the first pitch here Saturday, Bryce Harper shuffled the playlist in the Phillies’ clubhouse in search of the right pregame mix. By the third inning, he found the perfect harmony.

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The Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees are back at Yankee Stadium on Saturday for Game 2 of their weekend series.

The Phillies blew it open in the seventh. Edmundo Sosa - who was later involved in an ugly collision with Brandon Marsh on a pop up - hit a two-run home run to make it 7-1, and then Kyle Schwarber (5-10 with six RBIs in the series) added a two-run double to push the lead to 9-1.

The Yankees lost 9-4 to the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday afternoon and have dropped four out of their last five games.

The Yankees cut their deficit to 6-5 in the seventh. Anthony Volpe, on his bobblehead night, hit a 340-foot solo shot. Ben Rice had a pinch-hit, one-out single and later scored on Aaron Judge’s sac fly.