Despite entering the seventh inning with a 4-1 lead, Boston’s bullpen could not seal the deal, as the Yankees orchestrated a five-run rally in the stanza en route to a 9-4 victory at Fenway Park. Even though he’s 40 years old and has already announced his retirement at season’s end, he’s still the centerpiece of Boston’s offensive attack with a.307 average and 25 home runs. Fernando Abad took over for Barnes on the mound, and after striking out Gardner for the second out, surrendered an RBI single to Jacoby Ellsbury to cut the lead to 4-3.
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“We’re all (aware that the) last three or four weeks we haven’t scored runs at the clip we have previous”. The Sox left those two runners in scoring position on another fly out by Ramirez that ended the lengthy sixth inning.
Mookie Betts had two doubles for the Red Sox, then left with right calf tightness. The Red Sox designated hitter had to be helped off the field and into the dugout. He is going to NY for further evaluation.
Boston has labored this season with capitalizing in bases-loaded situations, posting a.235 batting average, including a.111 showing over its last 27 at-bats. It was the third time in Pomeranz’s five starts with Boston that he has failed to pitch six full innings. NY used seven relievers after starter Nathan Eovaldi left with right elbow discomfort after one inning.
Also of note in the game, Alex Rodriguez finally got a pinch hit appearance. Boston scored their second run in the same fashion as their first, with Andrew Benintendi slapping a high chopper to second that could only be converted into one out.
That was part of the reason, Girardi said, that the Yankees sent down Severino to make room for new reliever Blake Parker.
Olivera, 31, did not play a single game for the Padres. Boston Red Sox’s Bryce Brentz, far left, prepares to hit for Ortiz.
NY cuts its deficit to two in the seventh, as Romine knocked in Gregorius with a single into left field.
Two more games and he won’t have to worry about it. It was perhaps the single biggest heart-in-throat moment of the season, considering that-with Ortiz set to retire at the end of the year-it represented the possibility of a premature end to the career one of the team’s all-time greats. “A lot of excitement, being able to hit my first home run”. It’s the same spot where Ortiz hit himself with a foul ball just days ago, though clearly this was a more direct and solid hit.
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Rodriguez, who is set to play his final game for the Yankees at home on Friday before being released, got into Wednesday’s win as a pinch hitter and is expected to play a bigger role in the finale.Rodriguez flied out in his lone plate appearance on Wednesday but NY managed to even the series at one win apiece by picking on the Red Sox bullpen for five runs in the seventh and three more in the eighth en route to a 9-4 triumph.
