Rafael Devers hit one other residence run off Gerrit Cole, Kenley Jansen labored out of a jam within the ninth inning and the visiting Boston Red Sox held on for a 3-2 victory over the New York Yankees Friday evening within the first assembly of the season between the longtime rivals
Triston Casas had two hits and an RBI and Enrique Hernandez homered because the Red Sox ended a six-game dropping streak at Yankee Stadium and received for the sixth time of their previous 18 video games total
Josh Donaldson homered for the Yankees, who misplaced for the third time in 4 video games and dropped to 1-19 when scoring two runs or fewer this season
Devers hit his seventh homer in 33 profession at-bats in opposition to Cole (7-1). The third baseman additionally ended a 16-game homerless drought by going deep for the primary time since hitting two Could 19 at San Diego.
Jansen, who entered with a 7.88 ERA over his previous 9 outings, obtained two fast outs earlier than encountering bother. Billy McKinney and Gleyber Torres singled to provide the Yankees runners on first and second for rookie Anthony Volpe
Volpe hit a foul ball down the left subject line that missed a game-ending three-run homer by a number of ft. Jansen then obtained the rookie on a pop-up to safe his 14th save in 17 possibilities.
Garrett Whitlock (3-2), a former 18th-round choose by New York in 2017, allowed two runs on seven hits in 6 1/3 innings. In his first begin in opposition to his former group after 12 aid appearances versus them, Whitlock struck out six and walked one.
Cole allowed two runs on seven hits in six innings for his first loss since his last regular-season begin of final season. Cole struck out six and walked one.
Devers hit a one-out double within the fourth and scored two batters afterward Casas’ single. In his subsequent at-bat, Devers reached for a first-pitch changeup and lifted it into the visiting bullpen past the left-center subject fence for his 14th homer and a 2-0 Boston lead within the sixth.
Within the backside of the sixth, Donaldson hit the second pitch of the inning into the netting above Monument Park in middle subject to make it 2-1, however Hernandez homered to left off Albert Abreu within the seventh.
The Yankees made it 3-2 when Isiah Kiner-Falefa scored on a wild pitch, which chased Whitlock. Nick Pivetta completed the seventh and Chris Martin labored a 1-2-3 eighth earlier than Jansen escaped
–Discipline Stage Media
