Teixeira hits game-winning slam, Yanks rally past Red Sox

Mark Teixeira hit a winning grand slam with two outs in the ninth inning as the Yankees staved off playoff elimination.

Boston clinched the AL East title almost 30 minutes before Teixeira connected, thanks to Toronto’s 3-2 loss against Baltimore.

The next closer, Joe Kelly, quickly got two outs and it indeed looked like the Sox would survive.

Kimbrel, however, gave up a leadoff single to Brett Gardner and issued three consecutive walks, the last forcing in a run. RHP James Kaprielian, selected in the first round of the 2015 draft, is scheduled to pitch in the instructional league against Toronto on Friday, his first outing since he went on Class A Tampa’s DL in late April with an elbow flexor strain. The other win this season for Miller came May 7 at Atlanta.

Boston was to head home for a three-game series against Toronto this weekend that ends the regular season.

Kim’s decisive drive came one inning after Mark Trumbo homered off set-up manJason Grilli.

The only goal of the game between the Middlebury Panthers and Keene State Owls was scored by Middlebury’s Amy Martin in the first half as the Panthers improve to 6-2 on the season with the 1-0 victory, and St. Joseph’s of CT shut out the Norwich Cadets 4-0. This season the Red Sox pitching has been fantastic. they have one of the best ERA’s at 3.50 this season along with a WHIP of 1.18.

Of those home runs, 31 have been in two versions of Yankee Stadium. The streak began with Hanley Ramirez’s game-winning home run off Dellin Betances on September 15 at Fenway Park and essentially wrapped up the Red Sox’s eighth division title and second under Farrell, who joined Joe Morgan (1988 and 1990) as the only manager to win multiple division titles in team history.

The Yankees defeated the Red Sox 5-3, but the Red Sox celebrated after the Toronto Blue Jays lost to the Baltimore Orioles.

Alex Rodriguez is expected to start work as a Yankees instructor at the team’s minor league complex, where Orlando Hernandez arrived Thursday. Instead, he held the Yankees to one hit over six scoreless innings Wednesday night and put the Red Sox in position to take a 3-0 lead in the top of the eighth.

Reason No.1: They tamed a insane second-half season.

With the win, the Mets maintained their slim lead over the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals in the NL wild-card race. “I told them I’ve been having fun these last few months and we’ve got four games left, keep enjoying yourself, keep fighting and like we did tonight”. Freddie Freeman extended his hitting streak to 30 games.

Unsurprisingly, this is one of the worst lineups of the season. The Sox have some mostly meaningless games ahead, and want to head into the postseason at full strength, even if that hurts their chances to take home field advantage in October.

Anthony DeSclafani and two relievers combined to check St. Louis on six hits as Cincinnati eked out a victory at chilly Busch Stadium.

Meyer (2-3) limited the A’s to two runs and five hits over four innings.

Orioles right-hander Chris Tillman allowed six hits, three walks and two runs (one earned) in 5-2/3 innings. I think we played a couple of games here and went on the road to Boston, and it wasn’t good.

Detroit trails the Orioles by one game for the AL’s second wild card, and the Tigers certainly caught a break in this one.

“You get a walk-off, you give a speech, ” said Teixeira, 36, who has the wisdom of 14 major league seasons behind him and now 409 home runs.

In Chicago, Todd Frazier slugged his 40th home run and Miguel Gonzalez waited out a rain delay to throw 8⅓ dominant innings. WALK-OFFS1. Red Sox C Sandy Leon is 3-for-39 over his last 12 games. 2.