Moments later, the young catcher hit a 97 miles per hour, first-pitch fastball clear out of Fenway Park to provide the difference as the Red Sox completed a three-game sweep of the floundering Yankees with an 8-7 victory. The run support he got after being traded to Toronto at the deadline last season was huge, but the Red Sox are making him feel even more at home.
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Eovaldi, who had taken a no-hitter into the seventh inning of previous start, allowed six runs on 10 hits over six innings.
Story was 2-for-5 with an RBI double in addition to the triple. A four-pitch walk to Brock Holt set up Jackie Bradley Jr. for the RBI triple in the sixth.
Kimbrel came on in the ninth, and boy is he hard to hit. In 2015, he hadn’t allowed his third home run until August 23.
He allowed four hits and did not issue a walk.
Price has allowed five or more earned runs in three of his six starts this season. The next batter, Mark Teixeira, would follow single down the left field line on the first pitch scoring Rodriguez. He threw nine innings in the first 14 games and hasn’t seemed right since.
Zach Britton struck out the first two batters before Adam Eaton reached on an infield single.
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, left, talks with Miami Marlins manager Don Mattingly during batting practice prior to a baseball game, Thursday, April 28, 2016, in Los Angeles.
But just like the third inning, the Red Sox would answer. 500 was the 2013 season.
Michael Pineda (1-3) lasted just five innings, giving up two runs on five hits and three walks while striking out three for NY (8-14).
With two out in the third, Rodriguez launched his 692nd career homer – a towering shot to center – for a 3-1 lead. A-Rod came up and launched a mammoth two-run home run off David Price into the Green Monster seats to put the Yankees on top 3-1.
Casali then singled just over shortstop Troy Tulowitzki’s glove to bring home the game-winner. I guess maybe Starlin Castro is hitting well, but that’s it. Everyone else is in some kind of funk and is contributing nothing more than the occasional base hit.
There’s a marquee pitching matchup in NY – if the weather holds.
Conforto finished 3-for-4 with three RBIs.
Rodriguez was one of the few bright spots for the Yankees this weekend against the Boston Red Sox, hitting two home runs in the series.
Vazquez is not known for his bat, but changed that with his at-bat in the seventh. In addition, he has doubled in each of the last six games, which ties the team record set by Joe Christopher in 1964.
Betances said, “I made a mistake”.
Ortiz, who hit what proved to be the winning home run against the Yankees, earlier in the day had promised to hit a home run for a sick child in a video message posted on former Red Sox 1B Kevin Millar’s Twitter account. He went on the disabled list before the season started because of a strained right flexor muscle.
A solo home run by Minnesota’s Byung Ho Park was the only damage done against Zimmermann, who actually saw his ERA go up to 0.55.
The Sox tied the game in the bottom of the inning.
Pineda (1-3, 6.33 ERA) kept Boston in the ballpark, but he had two other problems.
Oquendo is selling his house in St. Louis and moving to Florida, near where the team trains in Jupiter.
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The Red Sox had to nervously wait out a replay to confirm that the go-ahead run had scored; David Ortiz barely crossed the plate before Ramirez was tagged out attempting to advance to third base for the third out.
