New York Yankees Recap: Yankees Crush Red Sox, Spoil Owens Debut
Today the Yankees opened up a 10 game homestand against their historical rivals, the Boston Red Sox. It was a pitching matchup between Masahiro Tanaka (7-4, 3.84 ERA) and the Red Sox number five overall prospect Henry Owens, who was making his major league debut.
Despite the Red Sox starting off the night 13.0 games back of the New York Yankees, the crowd was buzzing and it was a playoff-type atmosphere.
The Yankees continued their trend of first inning scoring with an RBI off the bat of Mark Teixeira that plated Chris Young, giving the Yankees an early 1-0 lead.
Henry Owens settled in nicely after that, and in his MLB debut, he went toe-to-toe with Yankees ace Masahiro Tanaka, and held the Yankees scoreless for the rest of the night.
Masahiro Tanaka pitched four scoreless innings, but in the top of the fifth the Red Sox finally got to him, scoring two runs on a Blake Swihart RBI and a sacrifice fly from Jackie Bradley Jr, giving the Red Sox a 2-1 lead.
The Yankees answered right back in their half of the sixth. After giving up a lead off single to Chris Young followed up by a double off thr bat of Alex Rodriguez, Henry Ownes was pulled with no outs and runners on second and third. His final line, 5.0 innings pitched, five hits, 3 runs (each earned), 1 BB and five strikeouts.
Robbie Ross Jr. came on in relief and immediately gave up an RBI single to Mark Teixeira that plated Chris Young and tied the ball game up at two. Brian McCann followed that up with a huge double off the center field wall, knocking in A-Rod and putting the Yankees up 3-2. Both runs were charged to Henry Owens. One batter later, Pablo Sandoval made a great play off a hot shot grounder from Carlos Beltran that gave the Yankees another run, but prevented them from opening up the floodgates. The score after six innings of play was 4-2 Yankees.
Masahiro Tanaka started the seventh inning, but gave up a leadoff home run to Sandoval, closing the gap to 4-3. He was immedately yanked from the ballgame and replaced by Justin Wilson. Tanaka’s final line on the day was 6.0 IP, 5 Hits, three runs (each earned), 2 BBs and five strikeouts. Justin Wilson was able to record two outs, but with a runner on second and a 1-2 count to Jackie Bradley Jr., skipper Joe Girardi turned to Dellin Betances for one strike to get out of the inning.
Betances came in and immediately threw a curve ball in the dirt that got away from McCann and moved the runner over to third base. His command was a bit off, and he eventually walked Bradyley Jr. With runners on the corner’s and two outs, Betances was able to get Brock Holt to strike out swinging to end the inning, as a sellout crowd exhaled and the Yankees retained their lead.
Thanks to an infield error by Xander Boagartes, the Yankees added some more insurace off the Red Sox bullpen in the bottom of the seventh and poured it on with a big nine run inning.
Alex Rodriguez singled in Jacoby Ellsbury, Brian McCann lauched a three run homer (18), Chase Headley doubled in Carlos Beltran, Jaboy Ellsbury singled in Headley and another three run homer off the bat of Chris Young (13) off three different Red Sox pitchers gave the Yankees a commanding 13-3 lead.
Of course, in typical Red Sox v. Yankees fashion, the seventh inning alone took over an hour to complete.
Brander Pineder pitched a 1-2-3 eigth inning and Nick Rumbelow pitched a scoreless ninth inning, imroving the Yankees record to 60-45. Tanaka improved to 8-4 on the season. Ove their last seven games the Yankees are averaging .323 and 9.9 runs.
The Yankees are back in action tommorow night, as Luis Severino will make his MLB debut against Steven Wright. All eyes will be on Yankees stadium at 7:05 pm, for what is sure to be thge start of a brilliant career!
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