A-Rod breaks top 25 in hits, leads Yankees past Red Sox

After singling to lead off the inning, De Aza was at second with two outs when Mookie Betts came to the plate. De Aza singled and stole second, advancing to third on an errant throw.

“Everyone in that dugout knows full well where we are”, manager John Farrell said.

Miley (8-7, 4.50 ERA) has yet to record a win against the Yankees despite a 1.05 WHIP in three meetings, but has won three of his last five games overall while posting a 3.26 ERA – best among active Red Sox starters since June 16.

“It’s very possible. I think anything’s possible here”, Girardi said.

The Yankees held after the Red Sox scored two unearned runs against Andrew Miller in the ninth.

But with Buchholz, there is always that concern that one pitch could send everything off the rails. ‘I’ve always said, in all my times at Fenway, whoever takes the initial brunt nearly never gets the ball – it’s always the next person.’. “Good experience. It’s a lot louder than some of the Minor League venues I’ve been at”. To allow more recovery time, the team has opted not to activate him for the final game of its three-game series against the Yankees to close the first half of the season.

The incident left Wapenski with two black eyes and dozens of stitches.

The Red Sox, who have been as many as 10 games out and 10 games under.500, had few highlights outside of Betts’ homer and his diving catch in center of Jacoby Ellsbury to start the game.

Boston fell 6 1/2 games behind first-place New York in the AL East entering the break. A bad two-strike pitch to Pablo Sandoval was then lined to right for the second run, before Hanley Ramirez went up-the-middle to put the Red Sox ahead 3-2.

Rodriguez, who homered in the first two games, delivered a sixth-inning double to give the Yankees a 4-3 lead.

BOSTON (AP) – Alex Rodriguez doubled to break a sixth-inning tie, move into the top 25 on baseball’s career hits list and help the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 8-6 on Sunday. He has now given up five home runs in 52.2 innings on the season.

Rodriguez had two hits and drew a bases-loaded walk in a three-run fourth to raise his average to.279. Gardner reached on an infield single to second, and scored from first base on an RBI double to the gap in left-center field from A-Rod to make it 4-3. Red Sox 3, Yankees 1. (Refsnyder is ahead of Girardi, who didn’t get engaged until the day of his major-league debut.). Refsnyder was just called up on Friday to play second base this weekend, and went 2-for-4 to get his first hit and homer of his career. An unidentified woman was hit by a foul ball in the fifth inning of last night’s Yankees-Red Sox game.

“That’s about all [the power] I’ve got”, Refsnyder said. “It’s something I’ll remember”. That was hit No. 3,020, tying him with Rafael Palmeiro for 25th on baseball’s all-time list.

Adam Warren of the Yankees faced three batters, giving up the triple, single and a walk before he was pulled.

The Red Sox were surging into the All-Star Break, and with the Yankees coming to town, they were going to use the opportunity to announce their return to contention with a series sweep.