Sitting at the bottom of the American League East, Boston is surging toward a challenge for the division, winning 10 of their last 14 games.
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Red Sox rookie Eduardo Rodriguez keeps the Yankees hitters at bay, allowing two runs on five hits over 6.1 innings.
Yankees: Begin a three-game series with the Seattle Mariners after the break.
New York Yankees’ Brian McCann, right, is welcomed home by teammate Mark Teixeira, left, after hitting a two-run home run off a pitch by Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Wade Miley in the second inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Sunday, July 12, 2015, in Boston. Well it certainly did seem to faze you anywhere and any righty at the home run there in the first inning did you change the way you pitched on after that.
Nova would finish the game pitching six and two thirds innings allowing four runs on eight hits while striking out three.
Clay Buchholz dodged a bullet with news of his elbow injury – a flexor strain, not a ligament tear that would require Tommy John surgery – yesterday. The Red Sox were then guilty of three straight infield miscues, two of them by first baseman Mike Napoli, and Rodriguez capped the rally with his walk. Rodriguez would better his opponent, going six and a third, allowing two runs on five hits and two strikeouts.
Boston led 3-2 when Nova was pulled with a runner on second and two outs in the seventh. “As far as the first half goes, he gets off to a quick start, goes through a little bit of a slide, but he’s been a key offensive contributor”, Red Sox manager John Farrell said. “He’s given us a chance to win every time”. The Red Sox have been using just four starters in the last week, so all signs point to Johnson joining the rotation when they resume play in Anaheim on Friday.
Wapenski, who is originally from Taunton, Massachusetts said she has been to Fenway over a hundred times and nothing like this has ever happened. He grounded into a double play in the top of the third, almost singled in the sixth (Alejandro De Aza made a nice play on a sinking liner to right) and popped up in the eighth, taking an 0-3 in his debut. Hey.
Yankees: Nathan Eovaldi (8-2) pitches for the Yankees in the series finale.
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To take his place, the club selected left-hander Brian Johnson, a highly touted prospect, from Triple-A Pawtucket on Saturday. He could ultimately replace Stephen Drew as the team’s regular second baseman, he could fall into a platoon role, or he could end up back in the minor leagues. Yankees 1, Red Sox 1.
