Yankees beat Red Sox in 16 innings.
BOSTON (AP) — Didi Gregorius lined a go-ahead single in the 16th inning and the New York Yankees outlasted the Boston Red Sox 4-1 Saturday in the longest game between the bitter rivals at Fenway Park since 1966.
Matt Holliday hit a tying home run off Boston closer Craig Kimbrel in the ninth, and it took 5 hours, 50 minutes and 512 pitches to finish. That is, if it's really over — the Red Sox put the game under protest after a bizarre play on the bases involving Holliday in the 11th.
Both teams burned through their bullpens, and the relievers won't get much rest. The Yankees and the AL East-leading Red Sox are set for a daynight doubleheader Sunday.
Boston starter Chris Sale struck out 13 in 7 2/3 scoreless innings of threehit ball. Yankees starter Luis Severino allowed one run and four hits in seven innings.
Ben Heller (1-0) went two innings. Doug Fister (0-3) gave up three runs in the 16th.
A day after Yankees blew a ninth-inning lead and lost, they rallied. Boston had been 43-0 when leading after eight.
TIGERS 11, BLUE JAYS 1.
DETROIT (AP) — Michael Fulmer is helping the Detroit Tigers enjoy baseball again.
One night after the Tigers threw 220 pitches in an ugly loss, Fulmer only needed 101 in his eight innings of Saturday night's 11-1 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays.
"It's fun to play a game where you are scoring runs on offense and your pitcher is getting quick outs," third baseman Nicholas Castellanos said. "That's how you want to play every day."
Fulmer and Alex Wilson finished the game throwing 115 pitches, a far cry from Friday's 7-2 loss that saw the bullpen need 106 pitches to get 11 outs.
"It has a huge impact on the entire team when you aren't asking them to stand around on defense for 20 minutes every half-inning," Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said. "The game goes stagnant in a hurry when you do that."
Castellanos, Miguel Cabrera and J.D. Martinez homered for the Tigers. Martinez, the focus of numerous trade rumors, drove in five runs.
Fulmer (10-6) won his fourth straight start, giving up one run and two hits while walking one and striking out three.
"My walk came around to score, so that wasn't good, but this was obviously a very good game," said Fulmer, who made his first All-Star appearance earlier in the week.
RANGERS 1, ROYALS 0.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — ShinSoo Choo flared a lazy fly ball down the left-field line with one out in the ninth inning, driving in the only run off Danny Duffy and giving the Texas Rangers a 1-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday night.
Duffy and Rangers counterpart Cole Hamels matched each other through seven innings, neither bending before Hamels finally departed for reliever Jose Leclerc (2-2) with two out in the eighth.
Duffy (5-6) began the ninth and gave up a weak single to Jonathan Lucroy. After pinch-runner Joey Gallo took second on a sacrifice bunt by Delino DeShields, Choo got just enough wood on Duffy's 91st pitch to drop a fly ball in front of left fielder Alex Gordon and score the game's only run.
Leclerc walked the leadoff man in the ninth, but Alex Claudio struck out Eric Hosmer and got Salvador Perez to ground into a double play to earn his third save and second in as many nights.