J.D. Martinez hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the fifth inning and collected four hits in his return to action as the Boston Red Sox routed the Tampa Bay R
i have been criticized for being too negative on yankees fans. i guarantee you they would be 10,000 times worse if the situation were reversed. nevertheless, i will be positive and only say this was glorious. you know what, john, you were born in boston in 2004, for the entire time they have owned the yankees. they knocked them out three straight times. 2004, 2018 and last night. pwofplt first, runner on. bogaerts comes to the plate. he had been struggling back. crushes a home run to center. didn t even make it out of the third inning before being pulled. 3-1, red sox. hits one off the green monster for the second time in the game. red sox, the perfect relay to get aaron judge at the plate.
hit the cut-off man. bogaerts gunned him down at the plate, and the game turned from there. 6-2 was the final. yankees lose. red sox, i say it here, congratulations to you guys. they move on to play the rays tomorrow night. couple things, willie. you would have thought that the decision to wave judge home to third was the dumbest decision in the history of baseball if you had listened to the espn announcers call it that. but it took a couple of perfect throws. yeah. kiké getting rid of the ball. perfect throw from xander to get it out. it was a risk teams would have taken. if he hadn t gone, it d be second and third with one out. 3-1, different game probably. like you say, beautiful throw from the outfield. beautiful relay throw right to the glove. wasn t really close at the plate. they were just better last night. there s not much else i can say. you guys won it.
Xander Bogaerts crushed a go-ahead two-run home run as part of a four-RBI night to lift the Boston Red Sox past the visiting New York Mets 6-3 in the opener of
Chris Sale hurled five shutout innings in his second start post-Tommy John surgery, and the Boston Red Sox got back on track with a 6-0 series-opening win over