Red Sox Crush Yankees, Win 5th Straight

Breslow was the oldest first-time starter in Red Sox history, surpassing 34-year-old Scott Atchison in 2010.

Porcello pitched eight innings, giving up four runs on six hits.

Boston Red Sox Blake Swihart follows through on a three-run home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees in New York, Tuesday, September 29, 2015.

Red Sox: OF Rusney Castillo (right quadriceps) was held out again as a precaution even though he was medically cleared to play. The Yankees also have been using veteran Carlos Beltran almost every day since the All-Star Game. With Gardner on second, Beltran sent a ball to deep left, making the score 6-2.

Nobody would have thought that Porcello was going to last 8.0 innings after the first frame looked more like the beginning of a choking session.

Boston Red Sox catcher Blake Swihart hit a pair of home runs in Wednesday’s 10-4 win over the New York Yankees, becoming the first Red Sox rookie since Jason Varitek (a fellow catcher) in 1998 to hit multiple homers in a game at Yankee Stadium, per Sportsnet Stats. Kershaw never gave the Giants batting line-up a hint of an opening as the Dodgers set up a best-of-five playoff series next Friday against the New York Mets of the National League East. “I said, ‘Good, ‘” Lovullo recounted. “Rick just did a great job of settling in”. “He made a few really good adjustments, started to work a changeup in the mix and a curveball when he needed it”, Boston interim manager Torey Lovullo said.

New York is running second in the division and was spared the possibility of the Blue Jays clinching the crown Tuesday when they were rained out in Baltimore. It speaks to the all-encompassing nature of Boston’s transformation over the past two months, one culminating Tuesday in their first five-game winning streak of the entire season. His three-run home run in the first inning capped off a six-run outburst to start the game, while his two-run shot in the eighth put the game out of reach, extending the lead to 9-4. “Just come back and play good Yankee baseball, and we will”. Rick went out there and in this thing in the team back them up and you know that’s those who makes it being fun when we are coming in like that.

“We can’t throw in the towel now just because we lost”, said catcher Caleb Joseph after Rich Hill’s two-hit shutout. Pineda bent over at the waist and shook his head, moments before the Yankees began to get a reliever loose in the bullpen.

“I gave him a day off Sunday hoping that would help”, Girardi said. He did allow one earned run or less in five of his last seven starts with a 2.08 ERA for the said duration. “That definitely resonated with me”.

David Ortiz was next and he lined a slider off the wall in right field, just missing a home run.

Pineda would finally falter again in the fifth, hanging a slider to Mookie Betts who blasted it to left field for his 16th homer of the year, but would manage to pitch through the sixth despite his awful start.

Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees most likely will face Houston (84-75) – which leads the race for the second wild card – or the Angels or Minnesota (83-76), tied a game behind the Astros. Of course, our hero – that’s probably not the right word – saved his best (worst) for last.

“You see the ball pretty well here”. The teams scored 10 runs on nine hits, seven of them for extra bases.