A wild game in Boston lead to the Yankees snapping Boston’s nine game winning streak.



No doubt the story from this game will be the wild brawl that went down in the seventh inning. Red Sox reliever Joe Kelly plunked Tyler Austin with a 98 MPH fastball in retaliation for what was perceived to be a dirty slide from Austin earlier in the game. While punches were thrown, no one was seriously hurt. Ejections were plenty as bench coach Phil Nevin and Austin were thrown out to go with Joe Kelly on the Boston side. If you thought this rivalry was dead I’d think again.

As for the game itself there were a lot of promising thing you hope the Yankees can build on going forward. Gary Sanchez seems to have broken out of a slump with his eighth multi HR game of his career while Giancarlo Stanton broke the game open early with a two run triple. Despite Stanton continuing to add to his strikeout totals, he has been getting some good, solid contact so far in this series. Another promising thing to note is the offense showing tremendous patience at the plate specifically in the first inning making Price throw a total of 35 pitches and giving up four runs. Price would not return for the second inning as he felt a tingling sensation in his left hand.

For the Yankees, Masahiro Tanaka had a decent start. Boston answered Yankees four run first by putting one on the board thanks to a bomb off the bat of Hanley Ramirez. After that Tanaka settled down and would retire ten straight before getting in and out of a jam to end his night. Tanaka’s line for the night: 5 IP 7H 6R 6ER 2BB 3K

The bullpen looked strong getting two scoreless innings from Chad Green, a scoreless inning from Robertson, and a shaky inning from Chapman who thankfully was able to strike out Devers to win the game.

The final game of this series happens tomorrow at 7:05pm in Boston.