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7:10 PM ET, April 22, 2014
Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts
Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts
Associated Press
Yankees Cruise Past Red Sox
Ellsbury received a mixed reception in his first game as a visitor after seven seasons with the Red Sox before signing a $153 million, seven-year contract with the Yankees.
Tanaka (3-0) allowed two runs on seven hits in 7 1-3 innings with seven strikeouts and no walks. His 35 strikeouts in his first four major league starts set a team record and he's walked just two batters in 29 1-3 innings.
Jon Lester (2-3) struggled after four outstanding outings, allowing seven runs in 4 2-3 innings.
There were more boos than cheers from the crowd that contained a sizeable amount of Yankees fans when Ellsbury stepped in as the first batter of the game.
With an 0-2 count, he drove the ball about five feet from the top of the center field wall. It was ruled a triple after a spectator reached out and interfered with it. Ellsbury scored on a single by Derek Jeter, starting the Yankees toward their seventh win in nine games.
Jeter took second on a passed ball and kept going to third when catcher A.J. Pierzynski threw wildly into center field. Carlos Beltran singled in Jeter, making it 2-0 before an out was recorded.
The Yankees added two runs in the third, again before making an out, on consecutive doubles by Alfonso Soriano, Mark Teixeira and Brian McCann.
The Red Sox cut the lead to 4-2 on back-to-back homers by David Ortiz, his fourth of the season, and Mike Napoli, his fifth, ending Tanaka's scoreless streak at 16 1-3 innings.
Lester had his only good inning in the fourth when he retired the side in order. He nearly escaped a jam in the fifth before an error by first baseman Napoli led to four unearned runs and an 8-2 Yankees lead.
Teixeira walked and took second on a McCann's single. Lester struck out the next two batters then got Brian Roberts to hit a liner to Napoli. But the ball went off his glove and into right field, allowing Teixeira to score. Ellsbury then doubled in two runs. That was all for Lester as Chris Capuano came in and gave up Jeter's RBI single.
The Yankees made it 9-2 in the eighth on Beltran's fifth homer. It came off Edward Mujica, his teammate last season when the St. Louis Cardinals went to the World Series but lost in six games to Boston.
Xander Bogaerts doubled in a run for the Red Sox in the ninth.
NOTES: Jeter has hit in 11 straight games and reached base in all 15 games he's played. ... Lester allowed runs in the first inning for the first time in 14 regular-season starts. ... Ortiz needs one more game to tie Harold Baines for the most as a designated hitter with 1,643. ... Shabazz Napier of the NCAA champion Connecticut men's basketball team threw out the ceremonial first pitch. Teammates stood behind him as he threw to catcher David Ross after being handed the ball by Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy. Napier is a Boston native. ... Michael Pineda (2-1) pitches for New York in Wednesday night's second game of the three-game series against John Lackey (2-2).
Copyright by STATS LLC and The Associated Press
Game Information
| Stadium | Fenway Park, Boston, MA |
| Attendance | 37,041 (99.9% full) - % is based on regular season capacity |
| Game Time | 3:17 |
| Weather | 71 degrees, cloudy |
| Wind | 18 mph |
| Umpires | Home Plate - Quinn Wolcott, First Base - Gerry Davis, Second Base - Phil Cuzzi, Third Base - Brian Knight |
Research Notes
David Ortiz's
fourth-inning home run Tuesday was calculated at 482 feet. It is
Ortiz's longest home run since ESPN began tracking home runs in 2006,
and the second longest home run at Fenway Park in the same span.
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David Ortiz's 482-foot home run Tuesday is his longest home run since ESPN began tracking home runs in 2006.
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Masahiro Tanaka
has thrown 33 percent of his off-speed pitches up in the zone or above
this season, the third-highest percentage among qualified pitchers. The
Red Sox have just four hits in 28 at-bats to end in an off-speed pitch
in that zone this season; their .138 average in those at-bats is the
fourth worst in the AL.
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