Chris Sale was dominant over seven innings, and Rafael Devers led a 16 hit attack with a career night as the Boston Red Sox blanked the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium 11-0 Saturday night.
Devers was 5 for 5 with three singles, a double, and a first inning grand slam off New York starter Sonny Gray to get the Sox off and running. Andrew Benintendi hit an RBI single in the second and JD Martinez added a sacrifice fly for another RBI to make it 6-0 and end the night for Gray, who falls to 5-6 allowing six earned runs over 1.2 innings. Devers is the youngest player ever to get five hits in a game at Yankee Stadium.
Martinez added RBI singles in the sixth and eighth, Sandy Leon added a two run homer in the seventh, and Brock Holt had an RBI single in the ninth. Devers finished with the four RBI, and scored three times. Martinez had three hits, three RBI, and scored a run. Leon had two hits, two RBI, and two runs scored. Boegarts had two hits and a run scored, while Mookie Betts also had two hits and scored a pair of runs for the 56-28 Red Sox.
Sale (8-4) went a full 7.0 innings, allowing no runs, one hit, one walk, with 11 strikeouts. He allowed just a first inning one out single to Giancarlo Stanton. Sale is now 3-1 in his last five starts and has 54 strikeouts and a 1.03 ERA over those five starts. Saturday Sale retired the last 16 batters he faced, after a second inning walk to Austin Romine. Sale threw 72 of his 101 pitches for strikes, and became the first pitcher to combine seven innings, no runs, one hit or fewer, with 11 strikeouts against a Yankees team since Bartolo Colon way back on September 18, 2000. Boston pitching retired 18 straight Yankee hitters until Brett Gardner drew a two out walk from Heath Hembree in the eighth inning. Hembree pitched the eighth, and Hector Velasquez allowed a two out single to Gleyber Torres in the ninth, but was able to finish off the shutout.
David Price (9-5) heads to the mound Sunday night for Boston in the national televised ESPN TV game at 8:05. Luis Severino (12-2) toes the rubber for New York in the rubber game of the three game series.
