Stats of the Day: Red Sox get a big Han in 9th

Here are three interesting items from around the big leagues on Thursday …

• Down by three going into the bottom of the ninth, the Red Sox dropped five runs on the Yankees and came away with a 7-5 win. Entering the game, the Yankees had been 67-1 when leading after eight innings, while the Red Sox entered the contest 3-55 when trailing after eight. The winning blow came on a two-out, three-run homer by Hanley Ramirez. His blast off Dellin Betances marked the fifth time in the past 40 seasons a Red Sox batter produced a walk-off homer with two outs and his team trailing at the time of contact. The other instances: Dwight Evans against the Orioles’ Gregg Olson, with Boston down, 3-2, in the 10th on June 23, 1990; June 2, 2005: David Ortiz against the Orioles’ B.J. Ryan, with Boston down, 4-3, in the ninth on June 2, 2005; Mark …

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