Whenever the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees get together to go to battle, the unexpected needs to be expected. This was the case on Thursday night when the two teams squared off at Fenway Park.
After a lengthy rain delay in the middle innings forced a pause in the action, the two teams resumed with the Yankees leading the Red Sox 1-0. Boston would rally with two outs in the 9th, scoring twice to knot things up at 3-3. But it was in the bottom of the 10th inning when things got historically wild.
Yankees pitcher Brooks Kriske came in to try and shut the door with New York leading 4-3 over the Red Sox. What happened next has never happened before. Kriske would throw not one, not two, not three, but FOUR wild pitches in the inning and Boston scored twice to win in walk-off fashion, 5-4 over the Bronx Bombers. It was the first time in MLB history that a pitcher thew that many wild pitches in a single extra inning.
The sequencing for the Red Sox in the bottom of the 10th makes no sense yet all the sense in the world given what happened. Boston didn't record a single hit while scoring twice en route to the walk-off victory.
The win for the Red Sox kept them in first place in the AL East by a game over the Tampa Bay Rays. The Yankees fell to 8 games back of Boston. There truly are some ways to lose that are far more painful than others.
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