Red Sox, Yankees both winners on Monday
Judge hits 44th home run as New York edges Twins
BALTIMORE — Andrew Benintendi hit a two-run single in the 11th inning, Mookie Betts had four RBIs and the Boston Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 10-8 on Monday night for their ninth win in 12 games.
Xander Bogaerts homered and scored three runs for the Red Sox, who maintained their three-game lead over the second-place Yankees in the AL East and reduced to four their magic number for clinching a playoff berth.
Boston erased a five-run deficit with a six-run fifth inning and needed 10 pitchers to beat a skidding Orioles team that has now lost 10 of 12.
The Red Sox posted their major leagueleading 14th win in extra innings against three losses.
Matt Barnes (7-3) pitched the 10th and Carson Smith got his first save. Miguel Castro (3-2) took the loss.
Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia left in the fourth inning after being struck in the face by a foul ball he chopped off the plate. He bruised his nose and was listed as day to day. Earlier this year at Camden Yards, Pedroia’s knee was injured on a late slide by Manny Machado.
YANKEES 2, TWINS 1
NEW YORK — Aaron Judge hit his 44th home run, Aroldis Chapman pitched out of big trouble in the eighth inning and the Yankees edged Minnesota to increase their AL wild-card lead.
New York won the opener of a three-game series that could serve as a preview to the AL wild-card matchup in two weeks.
The Yankees trail AL East-leading Boston by three games, and hold a five-game edge over the Twins for league’s top wild card with 12 games left to play.
Chapman replaced a wild Dellin Betances with the bases loaded and one out in the eighth. The left-hander struck out three-time batting champion Joe Mauer and retired Byron Buxton on a fly, then closed for his 23rd save.
Judge homered in the first off Ervin Santana (15-8). David Robertson (9-2) retired all four hitters he faced, improving to 5-0 since the Yankees reacquired him from the Chicago White Sox in July.
MARLINS 13, METS 1
MIAMI — Giancarlo Stanton hit his 55th homer — and his first in nine days — while driving in four runs to help Miami beat the Mets.
Batting third for the first time this year, Stanton hit a three-run line drive into the home run sculpture at Marlins Park in the fourth inning against Matt Harvey (5-6). With that, the MLB home run leader ended a drought of 29 at-bats without one.