The Yankees won a 15 inning pitcher’s duel last night, thanks to a walk-off home run by Alex Rodriguez:
At 7:09 p.m. on Friday, Jacoby Ellsbury stepped to the plate for the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. He singled, stole second and made it to third base. By Saturday morning, the game was still going, and none of Ellsbury’s teammates ever got as far as he did.
The Yankees dropped by third base more often — four times through the 14th-inning stretch — but they did not score until Alex Rodriguez ended the longest single-season home run drought of his career, capping a scintillating night in baseball’s richest rivalry.
For the first time ever, the Yankees and the Red Sox were scoreless after 14 innings. Then with two outs in the bottom of the 15th, Rodriguez ripped a two-run homer into the left field bullpen to give the Yankees a 2-0 victory in five hours 33 minutes.
Rodriguez had gone 72 at-bats without a homer before lining an off-speed pitch with a 2-1 count off Junichi Tazawa, who lost his major league debut. It was the 20th homer of the season for Rodriguez, who tied Harmon Killebrew for ninth on the career list with 573 home runs.
The Yankees’ fifth victory in a row boosted their American League East lead over the Red Sox to four and a half games, their largest margin of the season. The early-season losing streak to Boston is an afterthought, especially after a game like this.
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