If you didn’t know better, you could confuse the 4-3 Yankee victory of Wednesday in Game 2 of the Al Wild-Card series as one that took place before 2004, when the Red Sox still found ways to regularly lose to the Yankees.
Because for all Yankees it did well in the Bronx to even force the series a different game on Thursday, there were two of the main reasons they survived Boston Miscues.
First, there was the RBI “Single” by Aaron Judge in the fifth who briefly placed the Yankees with a run, when the left field player Jarren Duran dropped the ball with two, allowing Trent Grisham to score from second place.
But perhaps even worse was Nate Eaton that stopped on third base when Jazz Chisholm Jr. A huge diving stop made Pinch-Hitter Masataka Yoshida’s hard grounder in the middle.
Eaton was on the second base on the grounder and by the time that Chisholm got up, the second baseman had no chance to get Eaton on the record.
And to make matters worse, Chisholm finally shot to first base, where the ball came by Rice.
But Eaton held up in third place and Fernando Cruz got Trevor story to fly to deep center to keep the game in the seventh.
“It was clear that it was a big piece,” Eaton told reporters after the Yankees had gone into the bottom of the eighth and held the victory.
“We didn’t score,” said Eaton. “I clearly couldn’t see it. As I go to third place, I was told to stop and then I couldn’t see how far the ball was when he got rice.”
All of this was after Cruz Carlos Rodón had replaced with runners on the first and second and nobody out in the seventh and light Cedanne Rafaela, in an attempt to move the runners, a shock popped up to help block the rally.
And that was after Duran, mostly stable in the left field, spread the fly ball of the right in a single that rode in Grisham.
“I just played pretty deeply on the right and when I came in, I thought it was slightly higher than it was,” Duran said. “I didn’t really have to go there in a full dive and pushed the ball a little more on myself. It really got me up. It’s on me.”
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