Boone’s bullpen call backfires as Red Sox stun Yankees in Game 1

Max Fried had the crippled successful his pocket. Through 6⅓ scoreless innings, the Yankees’ left-hander had scattered 4 hits connected 102 pitches and carried a 1-0 pb from Anthony Volpe’s aboriginal homer. Manager Aaron Boone had planned to propulsion him aft six, past fto him get “one much hitter” erstwhile a treble play ended the sixth. After Jarren Duran became retired No. 1 successful the seventh, Boone went to the bullpen.

Luke Weaver ne'er recorded an out. He started Ceddanne Rafaela with 2 strikes, mislaid him aft an 11-pitch at-bat, yielded a Nick Sogard double, past watched pinch-hitter Masataka Yoshida punch a two-run single. David Bednar aboriginal allowed back-to-back hits successful the ninth for an security run, and Boston closed a 3–1 win.

Boone defended the move, citing Fried’s rising transportation number and postulation successful the mediate innings. “I felt similar his bid was not arsenic bully those last few,” helium said. Fried, who bushed Duran to archetypal connected his last play, countered softly: “I decidedly felt bully astatine the end… I’m going to enactment successful until I get the shot taken from me.”

Old questions, acquainted result

The scrutiny was not constricted to the seventh. Pre-game choices raised eyebrows, with left-handed bats Ben Rice, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Ryan McMahon sitting against Boston starter Garrett Crochet. The Red Sox lefty retired 17 consecutive aft Volpe’s homer earlier handing a four-out prevention to Aroldis Chapman.

New York’s alleviation woes made the borderline thin. The Yankees’ bullpen ERA of 4.37 ranked 23rd successful MLB. Weaver’s divided tells its ain story: a 1.05 ERA successful his archetypal 24 outings earlier a hamstring injury, 5.31 implicit his last 40. The precocious propulsion astir arrived; New York loaded the bases with nary outs successful the ninth—an country wherever it had scored successful 25 of its erstwhile 28 specified innings—yet Chapman struck retired Giancarlo Stanton, induced a shallow fly, and fanned Trent Grisham.

Boone has stood successful this spotlight before, from the Nestor Cortes gamble successful past year’s World Series to different speedy hooks. He had nary regrets Tuesday beyond 1 missed out. “I’ll instrumentality Weave there,” helium said. Paul Goldschmidt summed up the ninth: “One deed determination and we necktie the game.”