


Red Sox: Rookie RHP Brayan Bello (0-1) makes his second career start when he faces the Tampa Bay Rays.It was a hell of a night at Fenway. Cole (8-2) will face Reds RHP Graham Ashcraft (4-2).
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Yankees: After taking Monday off, host Cincinnati for the start of a three-game series Tuesday. He has been on the injured list since June 12 with lower back inflammation. RHP Nathan Eovaldi pitched three-plus innings for the Triple-A Worcester Red Sox on a rehab assignment, allowing two runs on five hits and striking out four. Red Sox: Devers missed the last two games of the series with back pain. Yankees: New York starter Jameson Taillon took a hard chopper from Vazquez off his right hip in the first inning, recovered and made the play at first. The Red Sox have two players headed to Dodger Stadium for the game on July 19: Bogaerts was added as a reserve, and third baseman Rafael Devers was elected as a starter. They join starters Aaron Judge and Stanton. Yankees ace Gerrit Cole, closer Clay Holmes, catcher Jose Trevino and left-hander Nestor Cortes were added to the AL roster for the All-Star Game on Sunday. Boone came out to argue, animatedly, after Sawamura struck out Stanton looking to end the top half of the inning. Yankees manager Aaron Boone was ejected by plate umpire Tripp Gibson in the middle of the seventh. “So that’s the only way you get to the playoffs now.” “At the end of the day, they’re going to look at who has the most wins, not the one who has the most wins against the division,” Bogaerts said.

Hirokazu Sawamura (1-1) struck out two in two innings for Boston, which is in second place in the AL East - but 14 games behind the Yankees. Albert Abreu replaced Miguel Castro and committed a throwing error on Cordero’s bunt, allowing Story to score from second and make it 10-6.Ĭhapman was charged with one run on one hit and two walks, striking out two in one inning. “We have to go for it there.”īoston added four more in the seventh, loading the bases on an error, a walk and a single before Story doubled high off the Green Monster in left-center to clear the bases. “Everybody talks about the bullpen, how great they are, and we saw the window there,” said Cora, who used two pinch hitters in the inning against Chapman. Trevor Story scored from third to make it 7-6 but Rob Refsnyder, who held up at first, was forced out at second. LeMahieu went back on it from second base and Aaron Hicks came in from center, but the ball glanced off LeMahieu’s glove and fell in. Chapman (0-3), who returned from the Injured List earlier this month, loaded the bases in the sixth on a single and two walks.ĭowns pinch hit for Jarren Duran and blooped one toward center field. Vazquez hit a solo homer in the bottom of the third, then doubled home a run in the fifth Martinez hit the next pitch out to right-center to tie it 6-all. Giancarlo Stanton and Matt Carpenter homered for the Yankees, who scored two runs off Boston starter Nick Pivetta in each of the first three innings to open a 6-2 lead. Martinez hit a two-run homer to make it 6-all in the fifth, and Franchy Cordero and Christian Vazquez also homered. “But we feel like we can play with anybody.” “We play in a tough division, and we’ve been getting beat in the division and we know that,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. It was the second straight comeback sparked by Downs, a 23-year-old rookie named after former Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter who was supposed to start in Triple-A on Saturday but was scratched so he could head to Fenway Park. Boston scored one in the third, three in the fifth to tie it, one in the sixth to take the lead and four insurance runs in the seventh. Jeter Downs’ bases-loaded blooper against Aroldis Chapman dropped in off DJ LeMahieu’s glove to break a sixth-inning tie, and the Red Sox rallied from a 6-2 deficit to win on Sunday night. “It’s nice to give the fans something to come back to the ballpark and look forward to.” “Especially how the first two games went,” he said, alluding to the 12-5 loss on Friday in which outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr.

You’re definitely lying if you say that," said shortstop Xander Bogaerts, who was added to the AL roster for the All-Star Game earlier Sunday. “I don’t think anyone would have bet that we would have split it after the first two.
