Xander Bogaerts hit a two-run homer and drove in three runs, and Mookie Betts had a tying single before scoring the go-ahead run as the Red Sox posted their eighth win in 11 games.
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Castro was removed from Saturday’s game against the Red Sox in the top of the fifth inning with an apparent hamstring injury, David Lennon of Newsday reports.
Castro was 1-for-3 in the game, the double his 28th of the season.
Solano, a.319 hitter in Triple-A this season who played 361 big-league games for the Miami Marlins from 2012-15, was called up Sunday and put right in the starting lineup as the Yanks’ second baseman for Sunday night. Or that past year, although Butler appeared in 143 games, the A’s saw fit to put him at first base all of seven times.
NY dropped the first three games of the series to fall seven games behind first-place Boston in the American League East and 4 1/2 games out of the second wild card.
“It’s really, really stiff”, Girardi said. It was his lone hit in four at-bats on the day.
The result of the injuries was a makeshift lineup Sunday night, one that included three players who were not with the Yankees six days earlier.
“It’s kind of the choices that we had”, Girardi said.
And Butler, in his first two games as a Yankee, has driven in four runs, including two with a pinch-hit two-run homer in the ninth inning of Friday’s 7-4 loss.
With the injuries to Jacoby Ellsbury and Starlin Castro, the Yankees felt they needed to bolster their roster, and the team did that by adding another pitcher and an infielder.
“I’ve caught Gary a lot lately, so that’s why Ro is in there, ‘” Girardi said.
Girardi, however, remained resolute in his confidence that the Yankees will, against the odds, make the playoffs.
Still, Girardi said, “We’re trying to get as much offense as we can”, which means Butler’s bat vs.
“I do, ” he said.
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“It’s not what you want”, Girardi said of losing the hot-hitting Castro at this point in the season. So you have to believe. And in the seven starts before that, he was 4-2 with a 0.82 ERA.
