With the potential tying run on third base, Mookie Betts wanted to get the ball in the air.
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One can’t help but wonder if, between the growing American League East lead and the late-inning theatrics, the Red Sox are setting themselves up for a good October. Ramirez, who started on second, went to third, stopped, then tried to score when he saw Sanchez had his back to the plate. The catcher scampered back in time for the tag.
“Red Sox-Yankees is always a great rivalry”, Betts said. “Anytime I get a situation like that, you want to get the run in”.
After a Hanley Ramirez single, the Red Sox found themselves with runners on second and third with two outs thanks to a ground out to first base by Travis Shaw.
After the Red Sox found themselves trailing by three runs heading into the fifth inning, the hosts’ offense started chipping away, scoring two in the fifth inning on Xander Bogaerts’ 20th homer of the season.
Red Sox manager John Farrell defended Ramirez’s decision, calling it a “heads-up play”.
NY (77-70) wasted 3-0 and 5-2 leads and lost for the sixth time in seven games. After their Yankees series, they will hitting the road for a four game stint against the Orioles, which means the games will matter even more.
The Yankees lost the opener 7-5 when Boston scored five runs in the ninth, capped by Ramirez’s three-run homer. “But we know it’s going to be tough, so we know we’re going to have to win nearly every game just to try to get back in this thing”.
Boston will attempt to complete a four-game series sweep tonight as Starlin Castro and Jacoby Ellsbury arrive in NY for medical tests; Castro exited with a strained right hamstring and Ellsbury left after jamming his right knee.
Gary Sanchez made it 3-2 with a two-run double in the fifth for the Yankees, but Boston got two more in the sixth. Chase Headley, the second baserunner on the play, read the flight of the ball well and was just a few feet behind Gregorius when the pair crossed home plate.
What it resulted in was a 6-5 win for the Red Sox Saturday afternoon over the Yanks, who now find themselves seven games in back of the first-place Sox.
Craig Kimbrel pitched the final 1-1/3 innings to pick up his 27th save.
Boston Red Sox’s Jackie Bradley Jr.is doused after the Red SOx defeated the New York Yankees 7-4 in a baseball game in Boston, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. Austin Romine led off the third with a single, and Gardner brought him all the way home with a triple into Fenway Park’s center field corner. Ellsbury slid into a bullpen wall trying to make a catch and injured his right knee.
“People thought it was tough August 1, and all of a sudden we were back in the wild-card [race]”, Girardi said of the trades of key veterans and the influx of untested rookies. Myers, a Thomasville native who starred at Wesleyan Christian Academy, is batting.259 on the season with 25 homers, 26 doubles, 83 RBIs, 89 runs and 25 stolen bases. The Yankees are six games out of first and four games off the wild-card pace.
Price gave up five runs and nine hits in six innings with seven strikeouts and no walks.
“It was a very big win”.
“These guys aren’t giving up; these guys are fighting”, Girardi said.
“Don’t expect this group to give up until we’re eliminated”, Warren said.
LHP CC Sabathia (8-12, 4.10 ERA) is to start Sunday night’s series finale for the Yankees. Price is a sizzling 7-0 with a 2.16 ERA in his last seven starts, but has gone 1-2 with a 7.79 ERA in three starts versus the Yankees in 2016.
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Pomeranz, acquired by the Red Sox from the San Diego Padres in exchange for pitching prospect Anderson Espinoza in what has become a controversial deal (Padres general manager A.J. Prella suspended for 30 days for withholding medical information), is 2-5 with a 4.60 ERA in 11 starts with the Red Sox and 10-12 with a 3.25 ERA overall.
