Big blasts and big brawl lead Yankees to 10-7 win over Boston
The Yankees entered today after a long and brutal 14-1 loss last
night looking to bounce back in game two of this three game set. With a bit of
recent trouble keeping the ball in the ballpark, Masahiro Tanaka was ready to
do his job in Fenway, and while he did not pitch sharply, the Yankees’ bats
came alive and were ignited by two benches clearing incidents that eventually
led to a 10-7 victory.
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Following Stanton, Gary Sanchez had his own opportunity to get out
of a funk off of someone who he's hit well over the course of his whole career,
in David Price. He did nothing short of that. On the first pitch he saw,
Sanchez cranked a two-run shot which then made him 6-12 with five homers off of
Price in his career.
After three hits, four runs, and a tingling in Price’s hand in the
first inning, the Yankees were able to knock Price out of the game, concluding
his shortest start of his career after only one inning of work.
Tanaka came out to work in the bottom of the first, looking very
sharp. Tanaka was working a shutdown first inning until Hanley Ramirez laced
the first pitch he saw from Tanaka into the seats.
After a 25 pitch first, Tanaka comes out for the second and gets a
one-two-three inning on just seven pitches.
Sanchez opened up the third inning with a leadoff double.
Following up, Neil Walker picked up a single that found the gap, and the
Yankees quickly threaten to add on to that lead. With runners on the corners,
Tyler Austin singled to left field, scoring Sanchez and picking up the third
straight Yankee hit.
After a hard slide into second, Tyler Austin and Brock Holt verbally
got into it, forcing the benches to clear. Holt appeared to say something to
Austin after a spikes-up slide into second.
Following his seven pitch second, Tanaka came out and threw a five
pitch one-two-three inning third inning.
In the top of the fourth inning, with runners on the corners, Didi
Gregorius hit a sac-fly, tagging and scoring Gardner. Following that play, Gary
Sanchez deposited his second two-run homer of the game with a drive into deep
left center field, making it 8-1 all Yankees.
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After four, Tanaka was quietly cruising behind this hot offense.
After retiring 10 batters in a row, Tanaka had thrown just 45 pitches with
three strikeouts through four brilliant innings of work.
In the fifth inning Tanaka had a little bit of trouble hitting his
spots and executing his pitches. With runners on first and second, Mookie Betts
drove in Jackie Bradley Jr with a double down the left field line. With two
outs and the bases loaded facing J.D. Martinez, Tanaka gave up a grand slam to
straight away center field. Following the grand slam, Tanaka gave up a double
to Mitch Moreland. Though he did eventually get out of the inning, it wasn’t
without giving up five hits on five runs in the fifth inning.
In the sixth inning with a runner on third and one out, Stanton
laced a ball up the middle, easily scoring Gardner to give the Yankees more
breathing room. After two wild pitches advanced Stanton to third, Didi picked
up his second sac fly of the night giving the Yankees a four-run lead.
Chad Green entered in the bottom of the sixth to relieve Tanaka.
With one on, he got an inning ending double play.
In the seventh inning, tempers flared again, and this time it was
bad. Joe Kelley intentionally threw at Tyler Austin, and Austin charged the
mound. Punches were thrown and benches cleared for the second time of the
night. Austin, Kelly, and Yankees’ third base coach Phil Nevin were all
ejected, and the ghosts of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalries of the past officially
woke up.
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Aroldis Chapman came in for the ninth inning to this action-packed
game. Chapman struggled early on, with runners on second and third and no outs.
Chapman ended up getting a pop up, and a strikeout. However, a run scored on a
wild pitch and Chapman struck out Rafael Devers to end the game and strand the
runner on third. The Yankees won this one by a final score of 10-7, and I think it is safe to say that the rivalry has been renewed.
The Yankees will look to secure the series win tomorrow as they
will trot out Sonny Gray to oppose Rick Porcello. The game will take place at
7:10 ET.
Winning Pitcher: Masahiro Tanaka (2-1, 5.19 ERA): 5 IP, 7 H, 6 ER, 2 BB, 3 K
Losing Pitcher: David Price (1-1, 2.45 ERA): 1 IP, 4 ER, 3H, 1 K, 2 BB
Notables:
Gary Sanchez: 3-5, 2 HR (3), 2B, 4 RBI, 3 R
Giancarlo Stanton: 3-5, 3B, RBI, 2 R
Aaron Judge: 2-4, 2 R, 1 BB
Brett Gardner: 2-3, 3 R, 2 BB
Article by: Alex Cannizzaro
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