Sanchez HRs help Yankees tie up series

BOSTON — Aaron Judge helped chase David Price early by hitting a home run to a part of Fenway Park where balls rarely travel.

Gary Sanchez did him one better. The Yankees catcher, who tested his manager’s confidence with a sub-.200 batting average and poor defense for most of the season, hit two homers, the second a 479-foot shot clear out of the ballpark that sent New York to a 6-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday and tied the AL Division Series at one game apiece.

Price failed in his 10th try to win a postseason start and was booed off the field after five outs by a sold-out Fenway Park crowd.

Instead, the wild-card Yankees will have a chance to advance to the AL Championship Series with victories at home, where they are 7-0 over the past two postseasons, in Games 3 and 4 on Monday and Tuesday.

Judge’s homer, estimated at 445 feet, landed in the back row of seats above the Green Monster, high above the 379foot marker and about 10 feet to the left of the pole flying an American flag blowing straight out. It was the longest homer of the postseason — until Sanchez’s second homer, aimed in the same direction, sailed clean out of the park and onto Lansdowne Street.

■ Astros 3, Indians 1 — At Houston, Marwin Gonzalez hit a go-ahead, tworun double, Alex Bregman homered for the second straight day, and the Astros took a 2-0 lead in the AL Division Series.

Gerrit Cole struck out 12 and walked none, combining with two relievers on Houston’s second straight three-hitter. He allowed Francisco Lindor’s third-inning homer.

Bregman homered against Trevor Bauer in the seventh, and the World Series champions moved within a win of a second straight trip to the AL Championship Series.

Elise Amendola The Associated Press Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez, left, celebrates after his three-run home run with Aaron Judge, center, and Giancarlo Stanton during the seventh inning Saturday.