Game 149: Red Sox (Crawford) at Yankees (Rodon) 1:35pm EDT

Yoshida gets a slider right down the middle that he likes, but gets under it to right center, Judge moves back and left, catches well short of the track, inning over.

Holmes gets the job done as a set-up man. Keep it up, Clay. You may find real value yet.

Bottom 8, 5-2 Yanks.
Cabrera, Trevino and back to the top for Torres in their half of the 8th inning.

That's what they do, and they're great at it. Warning: they hate all things Yankee and adopt insulting nicknames for all Yankees, even great ones like Judge, who's called "Lurch" there, last I checked

Weissert still in the game for Boston.

Cabrera...
Takes a sinker outside, 1-0
Sinker on the outside corner, fouled, 1-1
FB well outside, taken, 2-1
Slider up and in ties him up, fouls it, 2-2
Change bounced just outside, takes it, 3-2
Cabrera grounds one up the middle, deflects off Weissert to Story, but he can't throw him out, infield hit for Oswalko.

trevino double play

Weissert throws a sinker down and in, a grounder to Devers, he bobbles and throws out Trevino, but the play is called back due to a pitch clock violation by Weissert, so 1-0 on Trevino.
Slider misses inside, 2-0
Sinker hits the bottom of the zone in the middle not called, 25% on Gameday another break for the Yanks. 3-0
Sinker in the zone down and in, taken, 3-1
Sinker to the inner 3rd at the bottom grounded to Story, who starts a 6-4-3 DP, 2 down.

Torres...
Slider misses outside, 1-0
Sinker low/away 2-0
Sinker at the knees outside middle AGAIN not called, again 20-25% on Gameday, 3-0. Yanks clearly getting the great margin on favorable calls today.
Sinker above middle, taken, 3-1
Sinker on the inside corner thigh high, taken, 3-2
Sinker below and outside middle and Torres must have been guessing slider because he just stares at it for the ꓘ. Inning over.

7-8-9 for the Sox in the 9th: Story, Jansen and Rafaela.
Sox have lefties Abreu, Casas and Valdez on the bench available to pinch hit.
Sogard is a switch hitter, too
Waiting for Boone to announce a righty to go to his lefties to pinch hit.
Cousins into the game to try to close it out.

not a good start. hits story