The New York Yankees not only lost the home game against the Boston Red Sox on Thursday, they literally gave the game against the arch -rival. And showed up as bad as they have not been in over a century.
In the 3: 6 defeat at the start of the series in the Yankee Stadium in front of over 47,000 spectators, the Yankees committed a total of four errors, including one in the ninth inning, which made the Two Run Homerun of Boston’s Rookie Roman Anthony possible in the first place. In the end, only three of the six approved runs were “earned”.
At the same time, the bronx bombers pitcher did not spill out with fame: led by starter Luis Gil, they sent proud nine red Sox by walk to the first base. “Today we just beat ourselves,” said Jazz Chisholm afterwards. “Manager Aaron Boone saw it similarly:” Just not a clean game from us. That was not a nice evening for us. “
A historical one for this: A home game of the Yankees with at least four errors and nine walks last existed in May 1912, i.e. over 113 years ago. At that time, the team was called New York Highlanders before renaming Yankees after a miserable season (50-102).
Because the Red Sox also won the second duel on Friday (1-0), they have even slipped past the Yankees in the Al East table and have half a game ahead with a balance of 70-59. Both teams would currently have a wildcard five weeks before the playoffs started.