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HOT AND COLD AND
HOT AND OUT ... October 5, 2021 ... Quickly, Xander Bogaerts and Kyle Schwarber hit home runs and Nathan Eovaldi tossed 5 1/3 innings, striking out eight, as the Sox beat the Yankees, 6 to 2 in the American League Wild Card Game. Bogaerts blasted a two-run homer in the first inning and Schwarber lofted one into the right field bleachers in the third inning. Alex Verdugo later, added an RBI double and added a two-run single. Anthony Rizzo and Giancarlo Stanton homered for the Yankees, but it was not enough, as Nathan Eovaldi, Ryan Brasier, Tanner Houck, Hansel Robles and Garrett Whitlock kept the Yankee bats in check. Yankee starter, Gerrit Cole lasted two+ innings and allowed three runs on four hits. In the first inning Stanton hit a solo blast that he thought was a homer, but it scraped the Green Monster for a single. Then Bogaerts crushed a two-run homer into the center field bleachers off Cole, in the Sox half of the first, following a walk to Rafael Devers. Schwarber next homered over the Yankee bullpen, to put the Sox up 3-0 in the third. Two batters later, Cole was sent to the showers. Rizzo homered in the sixth off Nate Eovaldi for the Yankees first run. After Aaron Judge beat out a grounder to Bogaerts, Alex Cora gave the ball to Ryan Brasier. Stanton then slammed another ball off the wall, but Judge was thrown out at the plate by Bogaerts, trying to score from first. Verdugo's double in the bottom of the inning, restored the Sox' three run lead, and he brought home two runners in the seventh inning, on his second hit, with the bases loaded.
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