For only the third time ever, the Giants are visiting the Yankees this weekend as part of interleague play. The two historic franchises are playing three games at Yankee Stadium.

The Giants are struggling right now -- they're 0-6 since the All-Star break -- and when you're struggling that much, it seems the other team always make the great defensive play to short circuit a rally. The Yankees managed to combined three great plays into one to cut a runner down at the plate Saturday.

Check it out:

Replays showed the tag was applied well before Mac Williamson slid across home plate.

That was one of those "everything has to go right" plays and the Yankees executed to perfection. There were three parts to that defensive play:

  1. Brett Gardner's barehanded cutoff on the ball in the gap.
  2. Didi Gregorius' flat-footed relay throw.
  3. Brian McCann's catch and tag at the plate.

All three individual plays came with a high degree of difficulty, yet they pulled it off and packaged them into one great defensive play overall. Really nice work by Gardner, Gregorius, and McCann.

As for the Giants -- well, their tough second half luck continues.