Giancarlo Stanton turned the primary participant to homer in opposition to Boston in six straight video games, hitting a tiebreaking, two-run drive within the sixth inning that gave the Yankees a 4-2 win over the Purple Sox on Saturday.
Anthony Rizzo homered for the second straight day to begin the Yankees’ comeback from an early deficit, a tying two-run drive within the fourth.
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Luis Severino made his first begin for the Yankees because the 2019 American League Championship Sequence because the Yankees improved to 2-0 for the primary time since 2018.
Stanton broke a 2-2 tie when he drove an 0-1 slider from Nick Pivetta (0-1) into the primary row of the left subject bleachers, a 437-foot drive over Boston’s bullpen. Stanton and Rizzo turned the primary gamers in Yankees historical past to homer collectively in each of a season’s first two video games.
Stanton’s streak of six straight video games with house runs in opposition to the Purple Sox features a drive in final yr’s A.L. wild-card sport, a 6-2 Yankees loss.
Thee gamers had homered in 5 video games in a row in opposition to Boston: Mickey Mantle (1954), Ken Griffey Jr. (1996-97) and Jim Thome (1997).
After opening as a delegated hitter Friday, Stanton performed proper subject. Stanton hit 9 of 35 homers final yr in 16 video games as an outfielder.
Alex Verdugo hit a two-run homer in a 31-pitch second inning off Severino, who returned late final season from Tommy John surgical procedure. The 28-year-old All-Star right-hander, a 19-game winner in 2018. allowed 5 hits in three-plus innings, struck out 5 and walked none. He threw 65 pitches, together with 35 four-seam fastballs that averaged 97.8 miles per hour.
Six relievers adopted Severino with an inning every of hitless reduction. Lucas Luetge (1-0) pitched the sixth, and Aroldis Chapman labored round a throwing error by new shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa for his first save.
Boston dropped to 0-2 for the second straight season.
Pivetta allowed 4 runs and 4 hits in 5 ⅔ innings.
In a defensive spotlight that bought overshaded on account of Boston’s defeat, Enrique Hernández made a leaping catch on the middle subject fence to rob Aaron Choose of an extra-base hit. Choose’s drive would have been a house run in 21 ballparks.
