NEW
YORK -- The Yankees' offense was asleep for seven innings and so was
the sellout crowd. New York was about to get shut out for the second
straight night and drop a season-high 5 1/2 games behind first-place
Boston.
Aaron Hicks woke everyone up with his bat, then made a rocket of a throw, preserving a ninth-inning lead with a double play that electrified fans and bailed out Aroldis Chapman in yet another Yankees-Red Sox thriller.
"We
need to get as many wins as we can against these guys and just show
that we're willing to fight back," Hicks said after his two-run homer
sparked a five-run eighth inning that led the Yankees to a 5-4 win
Friday. New York cut its AL East deficit to 3 1/2 games and stopped
Boston's winning streak at eight.
Hanley Ramirez's two-run, first-inning homer and Andrew Benintendi's fifth-inning solo drive off Jaime Garcia built a 3-0 lead for Eduardo Rodriguez, who held the Yankees to two hits in six innings. Matt Barnes followed with a hitless seventh that extended the scoreless streak by Boston's bullpen to 19 innings.
And then the drama began.
In the first of 10 games between the AL East rivals in 24 days, the Yankees sent 11 batters to the plate in the eighth. Pinch-hitter Brett Gardner was nicked on a foot by a pitch from Addison Reed (0-1), a call originally missed by plate umpire Fieldin Culbreth and overturned on video review.Didi Gregorius and Todd Frazier followed Hicks' home run with RBI singles and Ronald Torreyes hit a sacrifice fly for a 5-3 lead.
And there was more.
Pitching for the first time since Saturday, Chapman walked Jackie Bradley Jr. on four pitches and Eduardo Nunez on five. He missed outside with a 100.6 mph fastball, and Benintendi -- whose bases-loaded walk against Chapman gave Boston a July 14 win at Fenway Park -- came to the plate as Dellin Betances warmed up.
Benintendi lofted on 0-2 pitch 327 feet to Hicks, just in front of the left-field warning track, and Bradley scored on the sacrifice fly. The strong-armed Hicks, who returned Thursday from a lengthy stay on the disabled list, made a one-hop throw to third base that was about 6 feet to the fair side of the base. Frazier made a backhand catch and swiped Nunez on the back as the former Yankee slid headfirst and reached for the base with his left arm.
"If it happened again tomorrow, I would take the chance tomorrow again," said Nunez, a former Yankee acquired by Boston from San Francisco last month. "That's how you play the game. That was a great throw. That was a great pick from Frazier and an amazing tag."
Mitch Moreland flied out, giving Chapman his 15th save in 18 chances.
"If he's safe right there," Gardner said, "the next play's a sacrifice fly and the game's tied, right? Who knows how it would have played out. A game-changer on both sides of the ball."
Boston and New York met while 1-2 in the division this late in the season for the first time since 2011.
Hicks, back from an oblique injury that sidelined him since June 25, hooked an inside slider high down the right-field line. He tried to will the drive fair.
"Of course, I'm talking the ball," he said.
And what did he tell it?
"Go!"
That made it 3-2 and stopped the Yankees' shutout streak at 16 innings.
Gary Sanchez singled, advanced on a wild pitch and Aaron Judge walked.
Joe Kelly relieved, Gregorius blooped an opposite-field hit to left that tied the score, and Frazier dropped a single into left, a ball he thought was going to reach the outfield.
Frazier, who is from New Jersey, thought back to his youth.
"I remember that excitement, coming to the ballpark and watching these games," he said.
CROWDS
The Yankees drew 46,509 in their eighth home sellout, matching their total in each of the last two seasons. They had 16 in 2014, Derek Jeter's final season.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Red Sox: 2B Dustin Pedroia could be headed to the DL for the third time this season. Pedroia's left knee was too inflamed for him to play, two days after he went 0 for 4 as a DH at Tampa Bay in his first game since July 28. ... LH David Price, who hasn't pitched since July 22 because of left elbow inflammation, threw in the outfield from 120 feet, then threw more intensely from 60 feet on flat ground, including breaking balls.
Yankees: LHP CC Sabathia (right knee inflammation) hopes to miss just one turn. He was put on the 10-day Friday, a move retroactive to Wednesday, when he had cortisone, platelet rich plasma and Synvisc injections. LHP Jordan Montgomery was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and will take Sabathia's turn Sunday. ... 2B Starlin Castro (strained right hamstring) and 1B Greg Bird (right ankle surgery) are likely to start minor league injury rehabilitation assignments next week.
UP NEXT
RHP Luis Severino (9-4) starts Saturday for the Yankees and LHP Drew Pomeranz (11-4) for the Red Sox. Severino has won four straight starts and is unbeaten in his last six outings. Pomeranz is 5-0 in his last eight starts.
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Aaron Hicks woke everyone up with his bat, then made a rocket of a throw, preserving a ninth-inning lead with a double play that electrified fans and bailed out Aroldis Chapman in yet another Yankees-Red Sox thriller.
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Hanley Ramirez's two-run, first-inning homer and Andrew Benintendi's fifth-inning solo drive off Jaime Garcia built a 3-0 lead for Eduardo Rodriguez, who held the Yankees to two hits in six innings. Matt Barnes followed with a hitless seventh that extended the scoreless streak by Boston's bullpen to 19 innings.
And then the drama began.
In the first of 10 games between the AL East rivals in 24 days, the Yankees sent 11 batters to the plate in the eighth. Pinch-hitter Brett Gardner was nicked on a foot by a pitch from Addison Reed (0-1), a call originally missed by plate umpire Fieldin Culbreth and overturned on video review.Didi Gregorius and Todd Frazier followed Hicks' home run with RBI singles and Ronald Torreyes hit a sacrifice fly for a 5-3 lead.
And there was more.
Pitching for the first time since Saturday, Chapman walked Jackie Bradley Jr. on four pitches and Eduardo Nunez on five. He missed outside with a 100.6 mph fastball, and Benintendi -- whose bases-loaded walk against Chapman gave Boston a July 14 win at Fenway Park -- came to the plate as Dellin Betances warmed up.
Benintendi lofted on 0-2 pitch 327 feet to Hicks, just in front of the left-field warning track, and Bradley scored on the sacrifice fly. The strong-armed Hicks, who returned Thursday from a lengthy stay on the disabled list, made a one-hop throw to third base that was about 6 feet to the fair side of the base. Frazier made a backhand catch and swiped Nunez on the back as the former Yankee slid headfirst and reached for the base with his left arm.
"If it happened again tomorrow, I would take the chance tomorrow again," said Nunez, a former Yankee acquired by Boston from San Francisco last month. "That's how you play the game. That was a great throw. That was a great pick from Frazier and an amazing tag."
Mitch Moreland flied out, giving Chapman his 15th save in 18 chances.
"If he's safe right there," Gardner said, "the next play's a sacrifice fly and the game's tied, right? Who knows how it would have played out. A game-changer on both sides of the ball."
Boston and New York met while 1-2 in the division this late in the season for the first time since 2011.
Hicks, back from an oblique injury that sidelined him since June 25, hooked an inside slider high down the right-field line. He tried to will the drive fair.
"Of course, I'm talking the ball," he said.
And what did he tell it?
"Go!"
That made it 3-2 and stopped the Yankees' shutout streak at 16 innings.
Gary Sanchez singled, advanced on a wild pitch and Aaron Judge walked.
Joe Kelly relieved, Gregorius blooped an opposite-field hit to left that tied the score, and Frazier dropped a single into left, a ball he thought was going to reach the outfield.
Frazier, who is from New Jersey, thought back to his youth.
"I remember that excitement, coming to the ballpark and watching these games," he said.
CROWDS
The Yankees drew 46,509 in their eighth home sellout, matching their total in each of the last two seasons. They had 16 in 2014, Derek Jeter's final season.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Red Sox: 2B Dustin Pedroia could be headed to the DL for the third time this season. Pedroia's left knee was too inflamed for him to play, two days after he went 0 for 4 as a DH at Tampa Bay in his first game since July 28. ... LH David Price, who hasn't pitched since July 22 because of left elbow inflammation, threw in the outfield from 120 feet, then threw more intensely from 60 feet on flat ground, including breaking balls.
Yankees: LHP CC Sabathia (right knee inflammation) hopes to miss just one turn. He was put on the 10-day Friday, a move retroactive to Wednesday, when he had cortisone, platelet rich plasma and Synvisc injections. LHP Jordan Montgomery was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and will take Sabathia's turn Sunday. ... 2B Starlin Castro (strained right hamstring) and 1B Greg Bird (right ankle surgery) are likely to start minor league injury rehabilitation assignments next week.
UP NEXT
RHP Luis Severino (9-4) starts Saturday for the Yankees and LHP Drew Pomeranz (11-4) for the Red Sox. Severino has won four straight starts and is unbeaten in his last six outings. Pomeranz is 5-0 in his last eight starts.
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| View: Play-By-Play | Pitch-By-Pitch | Inning: All | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| Boston - Top of 1st | SCORE | |
|---|---|---|
| Jaime Garcia pitching for New York | BOS | NYY |
| Núñez fouled out to first. | 0 | 0 |
| Betts walked. | 0 | 0 |
| Benintendi popped out to shortstop. | 0 | 0 |
| Ramírez homered to left center (415 feet), Betts scored. | 2 | 0 |
| Young lined out to right. | 2 | 0 |
| 2 Runs, 1 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| New York - Bottom of 1st | SCORE | |
| Eduardo Rodriguez pitching for Boston | BOS | NYY |
| Hicks flied out to center. | 2 | 0 |
| Sánchez walked. | 2 | 0 |
| Judge walked, Sánchez to second. | 2 | 0 |
| Gregorius lined out to right. | 2 | 0 |
| T. Frazier flied out to center. | 2 | 0 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Boston - Top of 2nd | SCORE | |
| Jaime Garcia pitching for New York | BOS | NYY |
| Bogaerts grounded out to third. | 2 | 0 |
| Devers reached on infield single to third. | 2 | 0 |
| Vázquez struck out swinging. | 2 | 0 |
| Devers to second on wild pitch by García. | 2 | 0 |
| Bradley Jr. grounded out to pitcher. | 2 | 0 |
| 0 Runs, 1 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| New York - Bottom of 2nd | SCORE | |
| Eduardo Rodriguez pitching for Boston | BOS | NYY |
| Cooper grounded out to shortstop. | 2 | 0 |
| Ellsbury flied out to right. | 2 | 0 |
| Torreyes struck out swinging. | 2 | 0 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Boston - Top of 3rd | SCORE | |
| Jaime Garcia pitching for New York | BOS | NYY |
| Núñez lined out to shortstop. | 2 | 0 |
| Betts singled to left. | 2 | 0 |
| Benintendi singled to center, Betts to third, Benintendi to second advancing on throw. | 2 | 0 |
| Ramírez intentionally walked. | 2 | 0 |
| Young struck out swinging. | 2 | 0 |
| Bogaerts grounded out to pitcher. | 2 | 0 |
| 0 Runs, 2 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| New York - Bottom of 3rd | SCORE | |
| Eduardo Rodriguez pitching for Boston | BOS | NYY |
| Romine grounded out to third. | 2 | 0 |
| Hicks doubled to deep right center. | 2 | 0 |
| Sánchez flied out to right. | 2 | 0 |
| Judge struck out swinging. | 2 | 0 |
| 0 Runs, 1 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Boston - Top of 4th | SCORE | |
| Jaime Garcia pitching for New York | BOS | NYY |
| Devers grounded out to second. | 2 | 0 |
| Vázquez struck out swinging. | 2 | 0 |
| Bradley Jr. struck out swinging. | 2 | 0 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| New York - Bottom of 4th | SCORE | |
| Eduardo Rodriguez pitching for Boston | BOS | NYY |
| Gregorius popped out to second. | 2 | 0 |
| T. Frazier struck out swinging. | 2 | 0 |
| Cooper struck out swinging. | 2 | 0 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Boston - Top of 5th | SCORE | |
| Jaime Garcia pitching for New York | BOS | NYY |
| Núñez struck out swinging. | 2 | 0 |
| Betts lined out to left. | 2 | 0 |
| Benintendi homered to right center (382 feet). | 3 | 0 |
| Ramírez doubled to deep center. | 3 | 0 |
| Young walked. | 3 | 0 |
| Bogaerts flied out to right. | 3 | 0 |
| 1 Runs, 2 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| New York - Bottom of 5th | SCORE | |
| Eduardo Rodriguez pitching for Boston | BOS | NYY |
| Ellsbury struck out looking. | 3 | 0 |
| Torreyes doubled to deep left. | 3 | 0 |
| Romine flied out to center, Torreyes to third. | 3 | 0 |
| Hicks struck out looking. | 3 | 0 |
| 0 Runs, 1 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Boston - Top of 6th | SCORE | |
| Jaime Garcia pitching for New York | BOS | NYY |
| Devers struck out swinging. | 3 | 0 |
| Vázquez singled to center. | 3 | 0 |
| Bradley Jr. grounded into fielder's choice to shortstop, Vázquez out at second. | 3 | 0 |
| Warren relieved García. | 3 | 0 |
| Núñez singled to right, Bradley Jr. to second. | 3 | 0 |
| Betts lined out to right. | 3 | 0 |
| 0 Runs, 2 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| New York - Bottom of 6th | SCORE | |
| Eduardo Rodriguez pitching for Boston | BOS | NYY |
| Sánchez struck out looking. | 3 | 0 |
| Judge flied out to center. | 3 | 0 |
| Gregorius flied out to left. | 3 | 0 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Boston - Top of 7th | SCORE | |
| Adam Warren pitching for New York | BOS | NYY |
| Benintendi struck out looking. | 3 | 0 |
| Ramírez grounded out to pitcher. | 3 | 0 |
| Young grounded out to third. | 3 | 0 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| New York - Bottom of 7th | SCORE | |
| Matt Barnes pitching for Boston | BOS | NYY |
| Moreland at first base. | 3 | 0 |
| Barnes relieved Rodríguez. | 3 | 0 |
| T. Frazier walked. | 3 | 0 |
| Headley hit for Cooper. | 3 | 0 |
| Headley flied out to left. | 3 | 0 |
| Ellsbury lined out to left. | 3 | 0 |
| Torreyes grounded out to pitcher. | 3 | 0 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Boston - Top of 8th | SCORE | |
| Adam Warren pitching for New York | BOS | NYY |
| Headley at first base. | 3 | 0 |
| Bogaerts grounded out to shortstop. | 3 | 0 |
| Devers struck out looking. | 3 | 0 |
| Vázquez grounded out to pitcher. | 3 | 0 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| New York - Bottom of 8th | SCORE | |
| Addison Reed pitching for Boston | BOS | NYY |
| Reed relieved Barnes. | 3 | 0 |
| Gardner hit for Romine. | 3 | 0 |
| Gardner hit by pitch. | 3 | 0 |
| Hicks homered to right (335 feet), Gardner scored. | 3 | 2 |
| Sánchez singled to left center. | 3 | 2 |
| Sánchez to second on wild pitch by Reed. | 3 | 2 |
| Judge walked. | 3 | 2 |
| Kelly relieved Reed. | 3 | 2 |
| Gregorius singled to left center, Sánchez scored, Judge to third. | 3 | 3 |
| T. Frazier singled to center, Judge scored, Gregorius to second. | 3 | 4 |
| Headley struck out swinging. | 3 | 4 |
| Ellsbury singled to shallow right, Gregorius to third, T. Frazier to second. | 3 | 4 |
| Torreyes hit sacrifice fly to left, Gregorius scored. | 3 | 5 |
| Gardner walked, T. Frazier to third, Ellsbury to second. | 3 | 5 |
| Abad relieved Kelly. | 3 | 5 |
| Hicks popped out to second. | 3 | 5 |
| 5 Runs, 5 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Boston - Top of 9th | SCORE | |
| Aroldis Chapman pitching for New York | BOS | NYY |
| Sánchez catching. | 3 | 5 |
| Chapman relieved Warren. | 3 | 5 |
| Bradley Jr. walked. | 3 | 5 |
| Núñez walked, Bradley Jr. to second. | 3 | 5 |
| Betts walked, Bradley Jr. to third, Núñez to second. | 3 | 5 |
| Benintendi hit sacrifice fly to left, Bradley Jr. scored, Núñez tagged out at third, Betts to second. | 4 | 5 |
| Moreland flied out to center. | 4 | 5 |
| 1 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Boston Red Sox | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hitters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | #P | AVG | OBP | SLG |
| Núñez 2B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 27 | .407 | .439 | .741 |
| Betts RF | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 24 | .269 | .346 | .455 |
| Benintendi LF | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | .278 | .359 | .434 |
| Ramírez 1B | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | .253 | .342 | .443 |
Moreland 1B
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .239 | .327 | .418 |
| Young DH | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 17 | .247 | .330 | .421 |
| Bogaerts SS | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | .280 | .336 | .400 |
| Devers 3B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | .314 | .386 | .529 |
| Vázquez C | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18 | .279 | .315 | .383 |
| Bradley Jr. CF | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 19 | .256 | .329 | .426 |
| Totals | 33 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 158 | |||
| BATTING 2B: Ramírez (14, García) HR: Ramírez (18, 1st inning off García 1 on, 2 Out); Benintendi (14, 5th inning off García 0 on, 2 Out) RBI: Ramírez 2 (44), Benintendi 2 (59) SF: Benintendi 2-out RBI: Ramírez 2, Benintendi Red Sox RISP: 0-6 (Young 0-1, Bogaerts 0-2, Betts 0-1, Bradley Jr. 0-1, Moreland 0-1) Team LOB: 9 | ||||||||||
Game Information
| Stadium | Yankee Stadium, New York, NY |
| Attendance | 46,509 (93.7% full) - % is based on regular season capacity |
| Game Time | 3:40 |
| Weather | 74 degrees, cloudy |
| Wind | 11 mph |
| Umpires | Home Plate - Fieldin Culbreth, First Base - Manny Gonzalez, Second Base - Laz Diaz, Third Base - CB Bucknor |
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