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C.C. SABATHIA |
THE BEST RED SOX TEAM EVAH! ...
Sabathia and Yankee HRs beat the Red Sox
June 29, 2018 ...
C.C. Sabathia shut down the Red Sox, Greg
Bird hit two home runs and Aaron
Judge connected off a college teammate as New
York bopped the Sox 8-1. Not since the famed Bucky Dent playoff game in 1978 had the Yankees and Red
Sox met so late in a season when they owned the two top marks in baseball. Home
runs decided this matchup, too, with Miguel
Andujar also going deep for New York.
The biggest crowd of the year at Yankee Stadium was in the spirit as lines
formed outside the gates more than 3 1/2 hours before the start. The pro-Yankees
chants began prior to the first pitch, the anti-Sox shouts soon followed.
Sabathia (5-3) helped end the Sox’ four-game winning streak. He gave up one
run and six hits in seven innings, and improved to 6-0 in his last seven starts
against the Red Sox. The big lefty bounded off the mound to field Mookie
Betts‘ tapper and throw him out to end his outing.
Slowed by knee problems in the past, a pumped-up Sabathia kept in motion and
jogged to the dugout.
Betts and Andrew
Benintendi hit consecutive doubles in the fifth for the
Sox run in the opener of a three-game series.
Steve Pearce,
acquired a day earlier from Toronto, batted cleanup in his debut for The Sox. He
doubled on the first pitch he saw and also singled off Sabathia.
Eduardo Rodriguez (9-3)
gave up five early runs. The Sox fell to 3-4 against its rivals this season, and
12 more games are left.
Judge connected for his 21st homer, a two-run drive in the seventh off Justin
Haley.
Gleyber Torres hit
his first career triple and scored on Andujar’s single in the second. Torres
added a sacrifice fly in a four-run fourth, capped by back-to-back homers from
Andujar and Bird. Bird added a solo drive in the eighth. The Yankees lead the
majors with 131 home runs. |
