The Boston Red Sox have been enjoying their time in New York, and as it turns out, so has Mookie Betts.
The 22-year-old outfielder wasn’t going to let Boston go down Wednesday, hammering two home runs against the Yankees and keeping the Red Sox in the fight. His first homer, a solo shot in the seventh, tied the game 5-5, and his second was a two-run jack that capped off the Red Sox’s four-run 11th and gave them a 9-5 win.
But it’s come to be expected, as Betts has been lighting it up through the whole series. The outfielder is batting .400 (6-for-15) with four runs, three doubles, three home runs and four RBIs through three games and still has one game left to do some damage.
Betts is hitting .296 on the season with 18 home runs, 68 extra-base hits, 73 RBIs, and 20 stolen bases.
Here are some more notes from Wednesday’s win.
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— The Red Sox have won six straight games and are on the verge of reaching .500 at 78-80. The win also kept the Yankees from clinching a wild-card spot for one more night, as well as from reaching their 10,000th franchise win.
— It was Wade Miley’s last outing of the season, and he didn’t exactly make it memorable. The left-hander actually started off solid but was tagged for three runs in the fifth, allowing the Yankees to tie the game 4-4.
Miley allowed with four runs on nine hits with four walks and three strikeouts, ending his season at 11-11 with a 4.46 ERA.
— The average age of the Boston Red Sox’s lineup Wednesday was 26 years and 8 months, and six out of the nine were aged 25 or younger. In other words, Boston’s youth is leading the charge, and even 39-year-old David Ortiz noticed.
“Look at the babies,” Ortiz said in the locker room after the game, per CSNNE’s Sean McAdam. “Look at what the babies are doing.”
— Jackie Bradley Jr. apparently made his own call on his 11th-inning sacrifice bunt. The coaches initially tried to convince the outfielder not to, but Bradley was confident in himself.
“Jackie felt like he could execute that type of game plan,” interim manager Torey Lovullo said, per McAdam. “I was trying to talk him out of it, but I’ve learned that when a player feels strongly enough about something, just get out of the way. He said he was going to try that particular play. It was an add-on run that was huge. That was all Jackie’s idea. We all tried to talk him out of it, but he was very determined. He did his job.”
Bradley said he might have been stubborn, but he wanted to make sure he got a run rather than a double play.
— Here’s a little fun fact that should make you feel extra good about the way things have been going for the Red Sox to end the season.
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