With Dent in the crowd and Aaron Boone in the Yankees dugout, the Red Sox chased Cole in the third after he allowed Schwarber’s solo shot and put two more men on with nobody out. And unlike Carlton Fisk, who contorted his body to will the ball fair in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, Bogaerts interrupted his home run trot only to flex for the Red Sox dugout.
Unlike Dent, who barely cleared the left-field wall that sits just 310 feet from home plate, Bogaerts drilled a line drive 427 feet to straightaway center. They won three more championships, in ’07, ‘13 and in ’18 when they knocked out the Yankees in the divisional round.Īny lingering pain disappeared into the center field bleachers in the first inning on Tuesday night.
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They got their revenge the next year when they rallied after losing the first three games of the ALCS to eliminate the Yankees, then went on to win their first World Series title in 86 years. 163 - that the Yankees won thanks to Bucky Dent’s homer into the net above the Green Monster.īoone was a New York third baseman when added to the heartbreak with his 11th-inning walk-off homer in Game 7 of the 2003 AL Championship Series. That doesn’t count the 1978 AL East tiebreaker - technically regular season Game No. It was the fifth playoff matchup between the longtime foes, with Boston taking a 3-2 edge. We needed it, and you can’t say enough about the crowd.” “You thrive for that, and Red Sox nation brought it tonight. And, you know, the crowd went nuts, and you feed off that energy,” Schwarber said. “The Bogaerts homer in the first inning - I mean, talk about a pop.
Enough Yankee fans were among them to fuel a raucous back-and-forth of insulting chants. But there’s nothing better than competing for something meaningful.”Ī year after baseball took its postseason into neutral site bubbles to protect against the pandemic, a sellout crowd of 38,324 - the biggest at Fenway Park since the 2018 World Series - filled the old yard to rekindle one of the sport’s most passionate rivalries. “Guys are crushed,” New York manager Aaron Boone said. After angling for a matchup with the Red Sox in a potential tiebreaker, the Yankees wound up in Boston for the wild-card game instead.Īnd the Red Sox beat them in the postseason for the third straight try. The Yankees, who lead the majors with 27 World Series championships, have not won it all since 2009. “Coming into the season, everybody talked about them being the best team in the big leagues, and we have a huge challenge. “Now we go to the next one, and we’ve just got to be ready to face a great baseball team,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. Bogaerts, Red Sox dent Cole, beat Yanks 6-2 in AL wild cardīOSTON - As the ball sailed over the center field fence, landing 427 feet from the plate in a horde of happy Red Sox fans, Xander Bogaerts turned to the Boston dugout to flex his muscles before resuming his home run trot.īogaerts and Kyle Schwarber homered off Yankees ace Gerrit Cole, and Nathan Eovaldi took a shutout into the sixth inning in the AL wild-card game to help the Red Sox beat New York 6-2 on Tuesday night.īogaerts also cut down Aaron Judge at the plate in the sixth as Boston advanced to the best-of-five AL Division Series against the Rays.
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