Red Sox to start former Yankee Eovaldi in ALDS Game 3
The Boston Red Sox will start former Yankee Nathan Eovaldi rather than Rick Porcello against New York in Game 3 of the American League Division Series Monday night.
Red Sox manager Alex Cora said he made the decision because Porcello pitched two-thirds of an inning of relief in Friday’s opener and he wanted to give him an extra day of rest. Porcello is scheduled to pitch Game 4 Tuesday.
Eovaldi was 3-3 with a 3.33 in 11 starts and one relief appearance for the Red Sox, who acquired him from Tampa Bay in July. The 28year-old right-hander, who throws at 97-98 mph, allowed no earned runs in three of four starts this year against the Yankees. He pitched for the Yankees in 2015 and 2016 before injuring his elbow, which required Tommy John surgery for the second time.
New York will start Luis Severino in Game 3, followed by CC Sabathia. The best-of-five series is tied 1-1.
Yankees
Aaron Judge walked past Boston’s Fenway Park clubhouse early Sunday morning, Frank Sinatra’s rendition of “New York, New York” blaring from a boom box atop the wheelie bag he was pulling with his left hand. “It’s a good song. And Aaron, he’s one of our resident deejays, so he’s got a pretty extensive playlist,” manager Aaron Boone said. “We like to hear that song sometimes when we win a big game.”
New York and Boston split at Fenway Park and are tied 1-1 in the best-of-five division series going into Game 3 on Monday night. Luis Severino, coming off four scoreless innings in the wild-card game against Oakland, will start for New York. He was 10-2 with a 2.74 ERA and .217 opponents’ batting average at home, but just 9-6 with a 3.99 ERA and .257 opponents’ batting average on the road.
Twins
Twins third baseman Miguel Sano was involved in a traffic altercation with a police officer in the Dominican Republic Sunday morning, according to newspaper reports in that country, and was detained at a police station.
The report, in the Spanish-language El Nuevo Diario, said the police officer fractured his left leg in the incident and was hospitalized. According to a translation of the newspaper’s story, the officer “ordered Sano to stop at a checkpoint, but he continued [and] ran over the uniformed officer, leaving him with serious damage.”
Another news website, Diario Libre, said Sano had been arrested, but was released, with the help of lawyers, after promising to return Monday morning. Diario Libre said Sano “expressed willingness to … pay for medical and recovery expenses [for] Angel Guillandrex Gil,” the officer injured in the incident.