BOSTON — Since taking a 7–0 lead in the second inning last Friday at Yankee Stadium against Walker Buehler, the Yankees have struggled against the Red Sox. Although they faced Garrett Crochet twice during that span — once at Yankee Stadium, where he allowed five runs — Ryan Yarbrough fared even worse, surrendering eight runs.
The Red Sox were limping into last week’s series, yet the Yankees were unable to capitalize. Tonight presented the perfect storm. Facing Garrett Crochet once again, the Yankees entered the game riding momentum from a sweep of the Royals but appeared to sleepwalk through the game offensively. The fifth inning was particularly disappointing. It began with Jasson Domínguez swinging at a 3–0 pitch and reaching base on an error by Trevor Story. After stealing second, a single by DJ LeMahieu put runners on the corners with no outs. However, Austin Wells and Oswald Peraza both struck out, and Paul Goldschmidt grounded out, squandering a significant scoring opportunity.
Yarbrough bounced back today, giving up only one run in 4.2 innings of work. Yarbs did his job — keep his offense in the game.
The Yankees played solid defense, especially Volpe and Goldschmidt. Volpe has had some sparklers over the past few nights, including this play tonight:
Aaron Judge struck out three times against Garrett Crochet again today. But Judge came up in the biggest sport of the game, tying it up in the ninth off Crochet.
After going into extra innings, Volpe would be called safe at third, on a stolen base, that would get overturned. It did not look clear enough to overturn, creating one awful call. Then, DJ LeMahieu hit what looked to be a double down the line, it was called a foul ball. YES network showed it clearly fair.
It was not overturned and Aaron Boone lost it on the Umpires and got ejected. After DJ LeMahieu grounded out to end the inning, he was tossed as well, and it did not look like he said anything to deserve getting tossed. The Ump Show took center stage.
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The Red Sox would go on to walk it off on a
Responsibility for the loss rests squarely with the offense. A rebound performance will be essential tomorrow, when Carlos Rodón takes the mound.