Red Sox rough up Yankees again
J.D. Martinez and Andrew Benintendi homered as the Boston Red Sox again hit balls all over and out of Fenway Park, battering the New York Yankees 9-5 Saturday in Boston.
The Red Sox have outscored the Yankees 38-13 to win the first three of a fourgame set. Boston ace Chris Sale goes in the series finale Sunday night, trying to sweep Domingo Germán and the AL East leaders.
This was the sixth straight game Boston has scored eight or more runs against the Yankees, the first time in the clubs’ 117-year rivalry.
Benintendi had three hits and scored three times, and Rafael Devers added three hits and scored twice for the Boston.
Gio Urshela went 4 for 4 with a solo homer and RBI single for New York. The Yankees have lost three straight for the first time since June 11-14.
CC Sabathia (5-6) fared only slightly better than the previous six games by a New York starter (with him included Monday), giving up five runs and nine hits in 4 innings. In his last outing, the 39-year-old was tagged for seven runs in four innings.
Over the past seven games, New York’s starters have given up 52 runs — 48 earned — on 52 hits in 26 innings. Overall, the staff has been pounded for 73 runs, with 64 coming in the previous six, the most in a six-game stretch in the franchise’s illustrious history.
Eduardo Rodríguez (13-4) labored through 5 innings, giving up three runs, seven hits, striking out five and walking three.
Trailing 2-1 in the fourth, Martinez pushed Boston in front by hitting the first pitch he saw into the last row of Green Monster seats for a two-run homer. Michael Chavis added an RBI single that made it 4-2. BLUE JAYS 10, RAYS 9, 12 INNINGS: Teoscar Hernandez led off the 12th inning with a home run and Toronto completed a comeback from a seven-run deficit to beat Tampa Bay. Hernandez connected off Emilio Pagan (2-2) for his second solo homer of the game. Hernandez also went back-to-back with Brandon Drury in the eighth. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a threerun homer in the ninth inning and Drury tied it with a two-out, solo drive as the Blue Jays overcame a 9-2 deficit. DODGERS 9, NATIONALS 3: Rookie catcher Will Smith homered and drove in six runs, leading Clayton Kershaw and Los Angeles over Washington. Playing in his 10th major league game, Smith homered in the third inning, hit a sacrifice fly in the fourth, doubled home a run in the sixth, and broke the game open in the seventh with a basesloaded double off the wall in left-center. Kershaw (9-2) settled in after allowing two first-inning runs, giving up three hits while striking out nine with three walks through the sixth.
ROYALS SEND DIEKMAN TO ATHLETICS: Kansas City traded left-handed reliever Jake Diekman to the Oakland Athletics for two minor league prospects. Diekman is 0-6 with a 4.75 ERA in 48 relief appearances this season. In return, the Royals got 26-year-old outfielder Dairon Blanco and 20-year-old righthander Ismael Aquino from Oakland.