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- Updated: September 17, 2016
BOSTON — The Red Sox didn’t need a wild walk-off to beat the Yankees this time. Instead, they rode a batting barrage and a solid pitching performance by Clay Buchholz en route to a 7-4 victory on Friday night.
Buchholz wiggled out of trouble early, getting Yankees phenom Gary Sanchez on double-play balls that ended the first and third. In six innings, Buchholz scattered seven hits while allowing two runs. It was a nice bounce-back outing after his mishap in Toronto five days earlier.
“I thought he made a couple of really good fastball pitches in to Sanchez for a couple of ground-ball double plays early on,” said Red manager John Farrell. “He’d bend a little bit, but stayed away from the big inning. He gave ourselves a chance to get the offense on track, and then we had a very good offensive night overall.”
The win allowed the Red Sox to keep their two-game lead in the American League East. The Yankees fell six back in the division and are 3 1/2 games behind the Blue Jays for the final AL Wild Card.
Hanley Ramirez, Thursday’s walk-off hero, hit another moonshot to center, a solo homer in the third that gave Boston a 3-0 lead.
“We’re just going out there, relaxing, play hard, creating some rallies and scoring as many runs as we can,” said Ramirez.
The Yankees inched to within a run on Sanchez’s two-run double in the fifth, but Boston off-set that with a two-run rally in the bottom of the sixth.
Ramirez, David Ortiz (47th double), Dustin Pedroia and Mookie Betts all had multihit games. Jackie Bradley Jr. smashed a solo shot to right in the seventh for some more insurance.
“I think we just have a lot of faith in one another,” said Bradley. “We know if we don’t get the job done the next person behind us will, and with that mindset, nobody has to play the hero game.”
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