Boston places RHP Clay Buchholz on 15-day DL with strained right elbow

It was a blast well over the Monster and the first HR that Buchholz has given up since May 21 (8 starts).

The timing of the right-handed-hitting Refsnyder’s promotion coincides with Boston scheduled to start left-handers in these final two games prior to the All-Star break. Not only did the Yankees score three runs, but Clay Buchholz exited the game with an apparent injury. He was replaced by Robbie Ross.

What happened next couldn’t be predicted if 1 million bucks was on the line. He also drew a bases-loaded walk to raise his RBI count to 49 as he continues a strong comeback season after missing all of 2014. That seemed ominous. It looked like the Yankees were going to blow the run-scoring chance and end up with nothing, especially after Cole Figueroa popped up for the second out as the next batter. Chavis went 1-for-5 with a homer to center in the fifth after Mesa hit a shot to left-center in the second, finishing the day 1-for-3 with a walk. They need to play almost as well over the remainder of the schedule as they have over the last 14 games.

After rolling to a 10-2 victory over Philadelphia in Nova’s return from Tommy John surgery June 24, the Yankees have scored a run each in his last two.

Should the Yankees sweep the Red Sox, however, they’d effective dump a bucket of water over the sparks the last two weeks have lit. Boston would fall back to seven games under.500, right where the Red Sox were when they left Toronto a week ago. Awful right side of the infield defense and more struggles for Napoli. He walked none and struck out one.

The setback comes as Buchholz was in the middle of one of the better stretches of his career, having posted a 1.99 ERA over the 10 starts previous to the one he made Friday night. Gardner popped out to shortstop Bogaerts.

Pineda (9-5) gave up only Mookie Betts’ solo home run over 6 2-3 innings. They found one 1.5 miles east: Fenway Park.

There are a few things that make Alex Rodriguez’s eyes go wide, his mouth whet with anticipation. The team’s collective fingers were crossed that it was nothing, just a scare, although when it comes to pitchers, there’s little that sounds more sinister than “elbow tightness”.

Moustakas becomes the seventh Royals player set to participate in Tuesday’s Mid-Summer Classic in Cincinnati. The Yankees are heading to the All-Star break with more questions than a first place team should have.

Another woman was hospitalized and later released after being hit in the face by a broken bat in a game at Fenway Park last month.

Since the start of this decade, the Yankees have tied (the Rangers) for the best road record (28-20) at Fenway Park among all American League teams.

Next up, these two teams will do battle on Saturday at 7:15pm on FOX.

But Friday night’s 5-1 win over the rival Boston Red Sox assured that will in fact be the case.

Prior to the start of the season, the Red Sox were heavily favored to win the AL East. The starting pitching wouldn’t be stellar, but they had the offense to pick them up.