Fenway Park turned into a madhouse on Sunday night, and it took every bit of 10 innings to get there. Sonny Gray flirted with history, the Red Sox nearly handed it away, and then Jarren Duran smoked a walk-off single to right that scored Masataka Yoshida and sealed a 5-4 win over the Yankees. The victory finished off a four-game sweep and kept the crowd buzzing long after the final pitch.
Gray Flirts With A No-Hitter
For most of the night, it felt like Sonny Gray was the whole show. He carried a no-hit bid into the eighth inning and ended up logging 7 1/3 hitless frames with nine strikeouts before Amed Rosario finally broke it up with a one-out line-drive single, as reported by MLB.com. Gray threw 97 pitches and was pulled immediately after the hit, his dominant outing defining the game’s tense rhythm. What might have been a routine pitchers’ duel instead turned into a tightrope act that had both dugouts on edge heading to extras.
Late Inning Meltdown
The Yankees finally found daylight in the ninth, helped along by a Red Sox unraveling in right field. Aroldis Chapman allowed a single to Jose Caballero and then walked Anthony Volpe, and two throwing errors by Wilyer Abreu turned what should have been routine plays into runs, according to the play-by-play at CBS Sports. Chapman was tagged with the blown save, his second in a week, and New York suddenly looked ready to swipe a win that had seemed firmly in Boston’s grip. Instead, those miscues only set the stage for a nervy extra inning that Boston would answer in dramatic fashion.
Walk-Off Caps Wild 10th
Down two runs in the bottom of the 10th, Boston strung together the kind of rally that keeps highlight producers employed. Anthony Seigler started it with an RBI single, pinch-hitter Masataka Yoshida followed with a double to tie the game, and Jarren Duran then ripped a liner to right that no one could track down, as detailed by The Boston Globe. With the Yankees forced to bring their infield in, the ball scooted through and Fenway instantly flipped into full-on celebration mode. It was the sort of chaotic finish that is going to be replayed on loop all week.
What The Sweep Means
The win did more than deliver a walk-off thriller; it completed Boston’s four-game sweep of the Yankees, the Red Sox’ first four-game sweep of New York since 2018, per CBS Sports. For a club that has been grinding through the standings, this series lands as a well-timed jolt and a reminder of how imposing starting pitching can flip a matchup in a hurry. Now Boston will try to bottle that momentum for the next homestand.
Reliever Justin Slaten picked up the win (1-4), while Fernando Cruz took the loss (4-3), and Yankees starter Carlos Rodón worked five innings, surrendering just one hit and two unearned runs with six strikeouts, according to the official game recap at MLB.com. The 5-4 final hardly captured the twists of the night, from Gray’s near no-hitter to the defensive breakdowns and the final walk-off swing. The Red Sox leave with bragging rights and a weekend to replay; the Yankees head home wearing the sting of a rare sweep at Fenway.
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