Boston Red Sox rout New York Yankees 5-4, in a close encounter - MLB Updates
American League’s Boston Red Sox over-powered New York Yankees 5-4, in the first outing of the three-game series to take 1-0 lead, at the Yankee Stadium on Friday night, May 13.
Sox’ starter, Clay Buchholz, made an excellent start to the game, pitching four shut-out innings and taking five batters to put the Yankees under early pressure. Buchholz received full support from the batters as they added two runs to secure a two-run lead
over the opposition in the third inning.
Buchholz, who was having just 1-3 record with a 6.25 ERA in six starts against the Yankees, gave away just two runs on five hits, allowed one walk and struck-out seven batters over seven innings, to earn his fourth win of the season.
Sox’ manager, Terry Francona, was impressed the way Buchholz struck back after allowing a homer to Yankees’ catcher, Russell Martin, in the fifth inning.
Francona said, “He threw hard and down with movement, and then he started using his changeup and breaking ball. His fastball had so much depth to it.”
The Homer tied the game at 2-2 in the fifth inning, however, Adrian Gonzalez hit a sacrifice fly for a leading run and Kevin Youkilis hammered a beautiful two-run homer, to life Sox to 5-2, in the seventh inning.
Youkilis said, “I was very fortunate we're not playing at Fenway Park and are in Yankee Stadium," "That's the good thing being here. The ball goes out to right field where it's an out probably at Fenway Park, how deep it is.”
Yankees might have come into the game, as Boston reliever, Daniel Brad, who relived Buchholz in eighth inning, gave away a run scoring walk to Alex Rodriguez to shorten the lead by one run. Curtis Granderson hit another RBI single to reduce the lead to 4-5,
but Mark Teixeira popped out to the third baseman on the last pitch of the game.
Yankees’ starter, Bartolo Colon, gave away three runs on five hits, allowed three walks and made four strike-outs, but remained win-less for the second time in the season. Reliever, Joba Chamberlain, proved an expensive pitcher too, as he yielded two runs
on three hits over one inning spell.
Reliever, Boone Logan and closer, Rafael Soriano both remained score-less in their one inning spell each.
Sox reliever, Brad and closer, Jonathan Papelbon both yielded one run each, over their short innings pitching.
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