Red Sox vets help Sea Dogs to 10-5 win over Yard Goats

HARTFORD — Dunkin’ Donuts Park was transformed into Fenway South for a night with the Portland Sea Dogs, Double-a affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, dropping three big leaguers on rehab assignments into their lineup.

The result was a 10-5 Portland win in an Eastern League Northeast Division game in Hartford. Major-league veteran Rich Hill started, went three innings and allowed a run on four hits with five strikeouts, throwing 56 pitches. Red Sox reliever Matt Barnes then followed with an inning of shutout relief to earn the win. Christian Arroyo, another rehabbing Boston player, had one hit in three at-bats with an RBI. Former Uconn star Jacob Wallace also pitched an inning in relief for the Sea Dogs.

Isaac Collins, Daniel Cope and Tyler Hill each hit solo home runs for Hartford (57-35). Tony Locey (0-2) was the starter and loser, allowing six runs on eight hits in 3 ⅔ innings. Christian Koss had three hits and two runs scored for the Sea Dogs.

Red Sox 4, Guardians 2: At Boston, Xander Bogaerts hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning and Boston won for just the fifth time in 20 games.

Guardians starter Triston Mckenzie, who had allowed one run total in four previous July starts, took a one-hit shutout into the sixth before putting two on with one out for Bogaerts. The Red Sox shortstop hit an 0-2 slider out to center field to turn a one-run deficit into a 3-1 lead.

Boston scored another off Mckenzie, who hadn’t allowed an extra-base hit all month, when Franchy Cordero led off the seventh with a double and scored on Bobby Dalbec’s hard line drive off the Green Monster.

In all, Mckenzie (7-7) allowed six hits and walked one in seven innings in his first loss since June 27. He was 3-0 with a sparkling 0.34 ERA over his previous four starts.

Yankees 1, Royals 0: Aaron Judge hit his third walk-off homer this year, his major league-leading 39th home run of the season, to lift New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.

New York was held to one hit before Judge drove a first-pitch fastball from Scott Barlow (4-3) into the Kansas City bullpen with one out in the ninth, a 431-foot drive that gave the Yankees their 12th walk-off win this season.

Judge sent the crowd of 43,836 into a frenzy, joining Mickey Mantle as the only Yankees with three walk-off home runs in one season. Tommy Henrich had two in 1949 plus another off Brooklyn’s Don Newcombe in the World Series opener.

Barlow walked off with his head down as Judge’s teammates mobbed him at home plate.