Boston Red Sox beat New York Yankees 7-5: MLB Update
The Boston Red Sox defeated league rivals New York Yankees 7-5 after a close confrontational game at the Yankee Stadium, on Sunday night, May 15, to complete their second series sweep.
Kevin Youkilis touched a magnificent three-run homer off Yankees starter, Freddy Garcia, in the third inning to tie Game-4, and David Ortiz added a go-ahead one-run homer in the fifth inning to slingshot his club into the lead.
Kevin scored again in the seventh inning, this time due to a fielding error by Alex Rodriguez, who let a ball roll through his legs in the seventh inning, permitting the Sox to take a 6-4 lead. However, Rodriguez also earned an RBI single on a fielding error
by the Sox’ Carl Crawford, who failed to cleanly pick up Rodriguez's double. The mistake shortened the lead to 5-6 at the end of the seventh inning.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia hammered a one-run homer for the Red Sox off the Yankees reliever Job Chamberlain in the eighth inning, to cement the Sox’ twentieth triumph in the 2011 season.
The Yankees were leading in the first two innings, as Mark Teixeira hit a led-off RBI single in the first, Andruw Jones and Curtis Granderson launched a homer each off the Sox’ starter, Jon Lester, to secure a 4-1 lead. However, the Yankees failed to keep
their momentum in the next four innings due to Lester’s strong pitches.
Lester, except for these four runs, did not yield any and completed his six innings, allowing four walks, two homers and managing seven strikeouts to earn his fifth win of the season.
Reliever, Alfredo Aceves, allowed a run-on-one hit and walked one over just 2/3 of the innings. Before he gave more runs, the Red Sox manager Terry Francona replaced him with Daniel Brad, who pitched a promising one and 1/3 innings to cement Sox’ dominance
on the game.
Closer, Jonathan Papelbon, did the remaining tossing in the scoreless last inning to earn his seventh triumph of the season.
The Yankees starter, Garcia pitched five and 1/3 innings, gave away five runs, two walks and struck out just four to bear his third loss of the season. David Robertson and Joba chamberlain both yielded one run each over their one-inning spell each.
Closer Mariano Rivera, once again made an excellent last inning, but was unfortunate not to have full support from the batters.
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