The New York Yankees lose third straight to the Boston Red Sox

The New York Yankees lose third straight to the Boston Red Sox


The New York Yankees lost to the Boston Red Sox on Saturday afternoon. The final score was 13-9 and the game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. David Huff started for the Yankees and didn’t pitch very well. Brett Gardner, Robinson Cano and Ichiro Suzuki each had a couple of hits.

Huff pitched 3 1/3 innings giving up eight hits and nine runs with no walks and two strikeouts. Huff lost his first game of the season, Jim Miller pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up three hits and three runs with a walk and Brett Marshall pitched 4 1/3 innings giving up three hits and a run with a walk and three strikeouts.

Brett Gardner had two hits, two RBI and drew a walk, Derek Jeter had a hit and an RBI and Mark Reynolds had a hit and two RBI. Cano had two hits and an RBI, Alfonso Soriano had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Eduardo Nunez had a hit and drew a walk. Lyle Overbay had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk, Suzuki had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk and J.R. Murphy had a hit. Nunez, Suzuki, Gardner and Reynolds each hit a double and the Yankees were 7-18 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base.

John Lackey pitched 5 2/3 innings giving up eight hits and seven runs with three walks and six strikeouts. Lackey won his ninth game of the season, Matt Thornton pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up two hits, Drake Britton pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up two hits and two runs with a walk and Junichi Tazawa pitched an inning giving up a walk. Craig Breslow pitched 2/3 of an inning.

Shane Victorino had a hit and an RBI, Johnny Gomes had three hits and four RBI and Dustin Pedroia had a hit. David Ortiz had a hit and an RBI, Mike Napoli had two hits and three RBI and Will Middlebrooks had two hits and drew a walk. Jackie Bradley Jr. had a hit and drew a walk, Ryan Lavarnway had a hit and an RBI and Bogaerts had two hits and three RBI. Ortiz, Bogaerts, Lavarnway, Victorino and Pedroia each hit a double. Napoli hit two homeruns; Gomes and Bogaerts each hit a homerun. The Red Sox were 5-10 with runners in scoring position and left four men on base. Lavarnway had a passed ball.

Napoli hit a two run homerun in the second to give the Red Sox a 2-0 lead. Overbay hit an RBI single in the second to make it 2-1 Red Sox. Gomes hit a three run homerun in the third and it was 5-1 Red Sox. Cano hit an RBI single in the third to cut the lead to 5-2 Sox. In the fourth Lavarnway hit an RBI double, Bogaerts hit an RBI groundout, Victorino hit an RBI double and Gomes hit an RBI single. Ortiz hit a sacrifice fly and it was 10-2 Red Sox. Suzuki hit an RBI double in the fourth to make it 10-3. Bogaerts hit a two run homerun in the fifth to push the lead to 12-3. In the sixth Gardner hit a two run double, Jeter hit an RBI single and Soriano hit an RBI single to make it 12-7. Reynolds hit a two run double in the eighth to make it 12-9 and the Red Sox added another run in the ninth to make it 13-9 and that was the final score.

The Yankees have lost the first three games of this four game series. The Yankees record fell to 75-67 and the Red Sox record improved to 87-57. The two teams will play the fourth and final game of the series on Sunday afternoon. The Yankees will try and avoid the four game sweep.