![]() New York’s great other great strength was a bullpen rippling with the kind of power that infantilizes batters-and opposing fans. New York’s entire batting order was shaped in their brawny image the Yankees are the first team in history to produce twenty home runs from every hitting position, one through nine. The pair combined for sixty-five home runs this season. There was also the designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton, last year’s National League M.V.P., who was traded to New York for pocket change by the Marlins and their new chief executive, the former Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter. The biggest reason was that the Yankees had, out in right field, the newest addition to the New York skyline: Aaron Judge, a six-seven, two-hundred-and-eighty-two-pound edifice of a man whose vast arms alone, festooned with a variety of protective sleeves, resemble window boxes. That the Red Sox led the league in hitting, and ran and fielded with elan, was fine. 177 for the season, including a recent 0–30 ditch. And the man they would all be throwing to, the catcher Sandy León, was taking the concept of defensive specialist to extremes: he had batted. The bullpen behind the suspect starters was likewise hinky. The team’s second-best pitcher, David Price, was 0–8 in previous playoff starts, and, as a member of the Red Sox, an unseemly 2–7 against the Yankees. The team’s (and the league’s) best pitcher, Chris Sale, missed most of August and September with a sore shoulder. Beyond this potent competition, there were, for Boston, internal vexations. This was the first time that three teams with a hundred victories would compete in the American League playoffs. Close behind were the Yankees, who won a hundred, and who were managed by their own first-year skipper: Boone, Boston’s erstwhile bête noire. The second-best team was the Astros, the defending World Series champions, who won a hundred and three. Led by a new manager, Alex Cora, who was the Houston Astros’ bench coach last year, the Red Sox won a hundred and eight games, more than any other team in baseball this season. This year, we in New England really had no right to fret. As the Hall of Fame pitcher Stanley Coveleski once said, “Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.” Part of it is that dark New England souls seem captive to doomy and irrational premonitions. Part of it is that every time the two teams meet the national networks once more detail Babe Ruth’s long-ago transfer from Boston to New York, and screen, again, replays of Bucky Dent and Aaron Boone hitting season-ending home runs, in 19, respectively. All winter afterward, the joy was shadowed with concern that Sox fans had lost what defined us.īut, fourteen years later, as this season’s playoff rematch with the Yankees began, the dismaying revelation for many of us was that we remain trapped in the fanly persona we felt sure we had repudiated. They went on to defeat the Cardinals in the World Series. (I’m a Red Sox fan.) And then Boston won that 2004 series, as dramatically as they’d always been defeated, losing three consecutive games to the Yankees before suddenly winning four in a row. The Yankees, meanwhile, were gilded metronomes of grandiose success, so regularly victorious that it made them smug, chesty, insatiable, and entitled. ET and you can catch all the action on NESN 360.The last time that the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees met for an October playoff series, in 2004, the Red Sox were a tortured outfit, the fouled-up team that not only hadn’t won a World Series since 1918 but that lost in such tragic yet inventive ways that it seemed like they were staging a Chekhov play in baseball costume. First pitch from PNC Park is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. The Red Sox will move on without the former Gold Glove winner as they look to sweep their three-game set with the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday. The addition of Baty to the roster this week came following the news that Luis Guillorme would be out as long as six weeks and Eduardo Escobar’s placement on the injured list due to an oblique strain. ![]() Sánchez’s arrival to New York comes at a time where the Mets infield is banged up. 2 prospect Brett Baty, who made an impact right away with his bat. The Mets add the veteran infielder to a first-place roster brimming with talent. Known for his glove, Sánchez provided steady if not unspectacular defense for Boston in his brief stretch with the big-league club. Sánchez, 30, played in 14 games for the Red Sox, batting. The Red Sox designated Sánchez for assignment Wednesday to make room for Kiké Hernández and Rob Refsnyder. In a corresponding move, New York released veteran catcher Patrick Mazeika. The former Red Sox infielder was claimed off waivers by the New York Mets on Thursday, the Mets announced. The Yolmer Sánchez era is over for the Boston Red Sox. Sox Transactions, Trades, and Free Agents.Former Red Sox Infielder Claimed By National League Contender
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