Yankees: Pitchers and catchers are due to report for spring training on Feb. Martinez, who was playing the field in Washington, because there was no DH in an NL park, slipped on second base as he ran out to his position in the outfield. Martinez, who sprained his ankle in the regular-season finale. Red Sox: Boston was without its regular DH, J.D. Yankees: 3B Gio Urshela played despite bruising his thigh in the regular-season finale when he fell into the dugout after catching a foul popup. “They wanted us and they got us now, so win or go home. We don’t really talk about it because we had some business to take care of ourselves,” Red Sox center fielder Kiké Hernandez said before the game. At one point, Major League Baseball ran through the tiebreaker scenarios and the Yankees had to choose whether they would want to play in Boston or Toronto to break a four-way tie.Īlthough the tiebreakers weren’t necessary when both teams finished ahead of Toronto and Seattle - with identical 92-70 records, Boston earned home-field by virtue of a 10-9 head-to-head record - word of the Yankees’ decision inevitably made it to the Red Sox clubhouse. 24-26 that moved them into the first wild-card spot. The teams swapped places twice in the last 10 days of the season, starting with the Yankees’ three-game sweep in Boston Sept. Stanton, who singled high off the wall early, hit a solo homer in the ninth. Alex Verdugo doubled in one run in the sixth to make it 4-1 and then singled in two more in the seventh to give Boston a 6-1 lead. In all, Eovaldi allowed one run on four hits in 5 1/3 innings, striking out eight. (The Yankees made 22 outs at home this season, tied for the most in baseball.) Mistakenly waved home by third base coach Phil Nevin, Judge was easily thrown out at the plate - 8-6-2 - by the team that led the majors with 43 outfield assists during the season. In all, he was charged with three runs on four hits and two walks, striking out three in two-plus innings.Įovaldi only allowed two hits through five innings before giving up a solo home run to Anthony Rizzo - Schwarber’s teammate on the 2016 Cubs championship team - that sparked the first excited cheers from the Yankees fans in the crowd.Īfter an infield single by Aaron Judge, Ryan Brasier relieved Eovaldi and gave up a wall single to Giancarlo Stanton. And unlike Carlton Fisk, who contorted his body to will the ball fair in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, Bogaerts interrupted his home run trot only to flex for the Red Sox dugout.Ĭole was pulled after he allowed Schwarber’s third-inning solo shot and put two more men on with nobody out. Unlike Dent, who barely cleared the left-field wall that sits just 310 feet from home plate, Bogaerts drilled a line drive 427 feet to straightaway center. They won three more Series, in ’07, ‘13 and in ’18 when they knocked out the Yankees in the divisional round.Īnd any lingering pain disappeared into the center field bleachers in the first inning on Tuesday night.
YANKEES RED SOX HEAD TO HEAD 2021 SERIES
They got their revenge the next year when they rallied after losing the first three games of the ALCS to eliminate the Yankees, then went on to win their first World Series title in 86 years. Mexico beats Costa Rica 2-0, reaches 2023 Gold Cup semifinalsīoone, the former infielder who is now the Yankees manager, added to the heartbreak with his 11th-inning walk-off homer in Game 7 of the 2003 AL Championship Series. Game 1 in the best-of-five matchup is Thursday night in St. Xander Bogaerts and Kyle Schwarber homered off Yankees ace Gerrit Cole, and Nathan Eovaldi took a shutout into the sixth inning to help the Red Sox top the Bronx Bombers.īogaerts also made a perfect relay to throw out Aaron Judge at the plate when the game was still close, sending the Red Sox into the AL Division Series against the Tampa Bay Rays. The Yankees season ended with a whimper in the American League Wild Card game Tuesday night, falling to the Boston Red Sox 6-2 in the winner-take-all matchup.
The Yankees now head into another intriguing offseason as they continue to try to piece together a roster capable of ending their 12-year World Series drought.Cole was chased in the third inning after serving up home runs to Xander Bogaerts and Kyle Schwarber, and the Yankees were eliminated early from the playoffs with a 6-2 loss to the rival Boston Red Sox.As their ace pitcher flopped on the Fenway Park mound, not even an appearance by Boston heartbreaker Bucky Dent could help them advance in October Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees took a winding route into the AL wild-card game, squeezing in on the final day of a tumultuous season.
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