NEW YORK — The Yankees stood one strike away from sealing a much-needed victory as Clay Holmes reared again for his bread and butter, a high-velocity sinker. The pitch by no means reached its meant goal, as Masataka Yoshida deposited it into the right-field seats for a game-tying two-run homer.
Tommy Kahnle surrendered a go-ahead two-run homer to Ceddanne Rafaela within the tenth inning because the Yankees absorbed their sixth loss in seven extra-inning video games this season, dropping a 5-3 determination to the Pink Sox on Friday night at Yankee Stadium. The free-falling Bombers have misplaced 14 of their previous 18 video games.
The Yankees carried a late lead thanks largely to left-hander Nestor Cortes, who reached again for a bit of one thing further in hopes of boosting the Yankees out of a slide that started with their mid-June go to to Boston’s Fenway Park.
Cortes struck out eight batters over six robust innings. Along with his fastball velocity up ticking just a few miles per hour (93.1 mph, from a season common of 91.8), Cortes fired first-pitch strikes to 16 of twenty-two batters whereas limiting Boston to simply three hits and a stroll throughout a 97-pitch effort (68 strikes).
The Yankees backed Cortes with three fourth-inning runs off Tanner Houck (one earned), assembling a gentle rally behind three walks and a run-scoring groundout.
Boston second baseman Enmanuel Valdez dedicated a throwing error on a possible double-play ball that allowed the Yanks’ first run to attain. Anthony Volpe adopted with a bases-loaded stroll, and Trent Grisham knocked in a run with a tough grounder.
However they might have had one other run earlier, which loomed massive given the result. DJ LeMahieu was tagged out close to second base on an inning-ending double-play ball hit by Ben Rice within the third, and replays confirmed that Anthony Volpe didn’t run exhausting from third base, touching house plate after the third out was recorded.
