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06/27 14:53 CDT Jake Bennett's strong start, Masataka Yoshida's HR off Gerrit
Cole carry Red Sox past Yankees 4-1
Jake Bennett's strong start, Masataka Yoshida's HR off Gerrit Cole carry Red
Sox past Yankees 4-1
By KEN POWTAK
Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) --- Jake Bennett held New York to one run in 6 1/3 innings,
Masataka Yoshida hit a leadoff home run off Gerrit Cole and the Boston Red Sox
beat the Yankees for the third straight day, 4-1 on Saturday.
Willson Contreras had a two-run double and Anthony Seigler hit his first major
league homer, a solo shot, for the Red Sox, who have won six of nine and
outscored the Yankees 16-5 in the first three games of series.
Max Schuemann hit his first homer with the Yankees, who have lost six of eight.
Like Friday, when a rookie lefty was flirting with a no-hitter in the middle
innings, Bennett held New York hitless until Schuemann's two-out homer in the
fifth.
The 25-year-old Bennett (2-3) allowed three hits before leaving with one out in
the seventh. Aroldis Chapman, the third reliever, got the final three outs for
his 16th save and 383rd of his career.
Making his seventh start after missing 2025 while working back from Tommy John
surgery, the 35-year-old Cole (2-3) gave up four runs and seven hits in 5 1/3
innings. He had five strikeouts and a walk.
Scoring in the first three innings for the second straight day, the Red Sox
built a 4-0 lead like they did on Friday.
Yoshida opened the bottom of the first by sending the ball 386 feet into
Boston's bullpen.
Seigler, drafted by the Yankees 23rd overall in 2018, homered into the first
row of Green Monster seats, making it 2-0. A fan dressed in a Yankees shirt
bobbled it and the ball fell onto the warning track, where left fielder Cody
Bellinger picked it up and tossed it to a ball girl.
Contreras' double into the left-center gap made it 4-0 in the third.
Up next
Yankees LHP Carlos Rodn (4-2, 3.70) starts against Red Sox RHP Sonny Gray
(9-1, 2.95) in the series finale on Sunday night.
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