The New York Yankees take a wild rubber game in Boston

The New York Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox on Sunday night.  The game took place at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts and the final score was 8-7.  David Phelps started and was bad and then left with an injury.  Esmil Rogers pitched great in relief in his Yankees debut and Brett Gardner had three hits and three RBI and Stephen Drew had two hits and four RBI.

Phelps pitched two innings giving up six hits and five runs.  He walked two and struck out none.  Chase Whitley pitched two innings giving up two hits and two runs with a walk and two strikeouts, Rogers won his first game of the season pitching three scoreless innings with a walk and three strikeouts and Dellin Betances pitched a perfect inning with two strikeouts.  David Robertson earned his 29th save of the season pitching an inning and walking a batter. 

Clay Buchholz pitched five innings giving up  eight hits and seven runs with five walks and five strikeouts.  Craig Breslow lost his third game of the season pitching an inning and giving up a hit and a run, Junichi Tazawa pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout and Edward Mujica pitched a perfect inning.  Koji Uehard pitched an inning giving up a hit. 

Gardner had three hits, three RBI and drew a walk, Derek Jeter had a hit and Mark Teixeira drew a walk.  Carlos Beltran had two hits, Brian McCann had a hit and drew two walks and Chase Headley had a hit and an RBI.  Drew had two hits and four RBI, Martin Prado drew a walk and Gardner, McCann, Drew, Beltran and Headley each hit a double.  Gardner hit a homerun and the Yankees were 4-10 with runners in scoring position and left five men on base. 

Brock Holt had a hit, Dustin Pedroia had two hits and two RBI and David Ortiz had a hit, three RBI and drew a walk.  Yoenis Cespedes drew a walk, Mike Napoli had a hit and Daniel Nava had a hit, two RBI and drew a walk.  Christian Vasquez had two hits and drew two walks, Pedroia and Ortiz each hit a homerun and the Red Sox were 2-4 with runners in scoring position and left four men on base. 

In the first Ortiz hit a sacrifice fly and Nava hit a two run single to give the Red Sox a 3-0 lead.  In the second Drew grounded into a force out and Gardner hit a two run double to tie the game at three.  Pedroia hit a two run homerun in the second to extend the lead to 5-3.  Drew hit an RBI double in the fourth to make it a 5-4 game.  In the fourth Ortiz hit a two run homerun to make it a 7-4 game.  In the fifth Headley hit an RBI double and Drew hit a two run single to tie the game at seven.  Gardner hit a solo homerun in the sixth to give the Yankees an 8-7 lead and that would be the final score.  The Yankees took two out of three in the series and will head home to face the Detroit Tigers on Monday night.