The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT)
Stanton, Judge power Yanks
NEW YORK — Giancarlo Stanton homered twice, Aaron Judge hit a tiebreaking single off Yankees enemy Joe Kelly and New York edged the rival Boston Red Sox 3-2 on Tuesday night for its 16th victory in 17 games.
In the opener of a threegame showdown between baseball’s top two teams, Luis Severino struck out 11 during a tight pitching duel with Red Sox lefty Drew Pomeranz. Judge cut down a runner at second base with a pinpoint throw from right field, and the steamrolling Yankees — on their best 17-game run in 65 years — won their seventh straight to tie Boston for first place in the AL East at 25-10.
It was the first time the storied rivals squared off with the two best records in the majors since June 2, 2002, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. And after their bench-clearing brawl at Fenway Park last month, touched off when Kelly drilled Tyler Austin with a pitch, a revved-up crowd of 45,773 showed up in the Bronx to see old foes go at it again.
There were no incidents this time.
Neil Walker got the decisive rally started in the seventh inning with a pinch-hit double off Heath Hembree (2-1), who walked the next two batters sandwiched around a balk. Kelly was greeted out of the bullpen with loud boos and a bases-loaded single by Judge that scored Walker, but left fielder Andrew Benintendi threw out Gleyber Torres at the plate.
David Robertson (3-1) gave up a tying triple to Mookie Betts in the seventh, but got three outs for the win. Aroldis Chapman worked a hitless ninth for his eighth save in nine chances.
Booed in the Bronx earlier this season, Stanton delivered in his first home
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Barbara’s trip to South Korea was not her first.
A purchaser for the Torrington Company in her working days, she had traveled there a number of times on business, visiting steel mills.
“I didn’t get to see a lot of the country this trip,” she said. “Because they whisked us right out to the site of the games. However, in Seoul, I noticed that a great many Americans, former soldiers, stayed over there and live there.”
Many Torrington people remember Barbara’s late husband, Tom, who died in 2003. She said she was Barbara Sondrini of Canaan when they met at Canaan Country Club. They played golf together and she remembered, laughing, “I was better than he was.”
He got out of UConn with a degree in civil engineering and the couple lived in White Plains, N.Y. Then they moved back to Torrington, where Tom served for many years as the city planner.
“I know people from Torrington really enjoyed this (reception),’’ Barbara said. “A lot of my friends were there. We get together at times for funerals and such, but this was a joyous occasion.”
It surely was that.