Yankees vs Red Sox 2015 (live score results below) are now underway in their MLB Baseball game for Sunday July 12, 2015. De Aza advanced to third on a throwing error by…
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The Yankees fought hard, but couldn’t get the job done against the Red Sox on Saturday night. Third baseman Chase Headley and right fielder Chris Young each had an RBI for New York.
After losing game one, 5-1, the Red Sox strike back to take one from the first place team in their division. “It was the first time I faced the Yankees”. I have to get ready for a game.
Hanley Ramirez (right) is greeted at home by David Ortiz after slamming a two-run homer on Saturday.
“It was a big win”, said manager John Farrell.
But Friday night’s 5-1 win over the rival Boston Red Sox assured that will in fact be the case.
Buchholz did leave his start on Friday against the New York Yankees early, and the Red Sox were hoping for good news. Nathan Eovaldi (9-2) earned the win for New York (48-40), which won two of three against Boston (42-47) to win its fifth straight series at Fenway.The right-hander allowed three runs on seven hits and struck out four in five innings. Not including a start he had to abandon after just five pitches because of food poisoning, Johnson has held the opposition to two runs or fewer in seven of his last nine starts.
Koji Uehara pitched the ninth for his 22nd save, ending it by getting Brian McCann on a 400-foot fly ball to center with a man on base.
Yankees: Girardi said that RHP Ivan Nova, who missed the season’s first 71 games coming off of Tommy John surgery, will get some extra rest during the break. “Everything just kind of buzzed for a minute and then I could just hear commotion”.
Rodriguez needs three more hits to tie Lou Brock for 24th.
PLAYER OF THE GAME: The Red Sox gave Hanley Ramirez $88 million to be a difference-maker at the plate, and he filled the role perfectly by ripping the game-winning two-run homer the other way.
For the second night in a row, Alex Rodriguez homered in the top of the first to give the Yankees a brief 1-0 lead.
Tonya Carpenter suffered what were initially described as life-threatening injuries in June when she was hit in the head with a broken bat.
He also collected a ton of congratulations from his teammates, including Alex Rodriguez, who, 21 years ago this past week, played his second big-league game at Fenway and had two hits.
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The second baseman handled both balls that were hit to him and helped turn a 5-4-3 double play, although he was unable to get out of the way of a Pablo Sandoval slide in the eighth on another potential double-play ball. “It was quite an experience, growing up a sports fan in a sports family”.
