The New York Yankees are swept by the Boston Red Sox

The New York Yankees are swept by the Boston Red Sox


The Boston Red Sox defeated the New York Yankees on Sunday night. The final score was 9-2 and the game took place at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. Ivan Nova started for the Yankees and wasn’t very good. The Yankees offense didn’t produce much.

Nova pitched four innings giving up six hits and five runs with four of them being earned. He walked four and struck out two. Nova took his fifth loss of the season, Adam Warren pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up two hits and two runs with a walk and two strikeouts, Cesar Cabral gave up a hit and Joba Chamberlain pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout. Mike Zagurski made his Yankees debut and pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit and two runs, David Phelps pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit and striking out one and Dellin Betances pitched a perfect inning with a couple of strikeouts.

Curtis Granderson drew a walk, Alex Rodriguez had a hit and an RBI and Alfonso Soriano had a hit and drew a walk. Lyle Overbay drew a walk, Mark Reynolds drew a walk and Ichiro Suzuki had two hits and an RBI. Brendan Ryan had a hit and drew a walk. The Yankees were 1-7 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base.

Clay Buchholz won his 11th game of the season. He pitched six innings giving up two hits and a run with four walks and three strikeouts. The run was unearned. Matt Thornton pitched an inning giving up two hits and striking out one, Craig Breslow pitched an inning with two strikeouts and Allen Webster pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with a walk.

Dustin Pedroia had a hit, two RBI and drew two walks, Daniel Nava had four hits and an RBI and David Ortiz had two hits, two RBI and drew a walk. Mike Carp had an RBI, Mike Napoli had a hit, two RBI and drew a walk and Jarrod Saltalamacchia had a hit. Xander Bogaerts had two hits and drew a walk including a double, Pedroia hit a double and Nava hit two doubles. Napoli hit a homerun and the Red Sox were 5-14 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base. Saltalamacchia and Bogaerts each had a stolen base and Bucholz committed an error.

In the first Rodriguez hit an RBI groundout giving the Yankees a 1-0 lead. The Red Sox scored three runs in the bottom of the first and never looked back. Ortiz hit an RBI single and Napoli hit a two run homerun. In the fourth Saltalamacchia stole home giving the Red Sox a 4-1 lead. In the fifth Carp was hit by a pitch to score another run and give the Red Sox a 5-1 lead. In the sixth Nava hit an RBI single and Ortiz hit an RBI single pushing the lead to 7-1. Pedroia hit a two run double in the seventh giving the Red Sox a 9-1 lead. Suzuki hit an RBI single in the ninth to make it 9-2 and that was the final score.

The Yankees lost three straight to the Red Sox and their record dropped to 79-71 and the Red Sox record improved to 92-59. The Yankees will have the day off on Monday and then begin a three game series in Toronto on Tuesday night.