Yankees’ Dellin Betances not superhuman after all

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BOSTON — After Dellin Betances served up a first-pitch home run to David Ortiz that resulted in a 4-2 New York Yankees loss to the Boston Red Sox on Friday night, Alex Rodriguez offered a line that seemed to sum up the team’s attitude to a rare failure by its outstanding set-up man.

“It’s good to know that Dellin is human,” he said.

No one in the Yankees clubhouse was offering up similar platitudes after Betances did it again on Sunday, another first-pitch home run resulting in another Yankee loss. Only this time, it wasn’t the fearsome Ortiz but Christian Vazquez, a strictly defensive catcher, the weakest hitter in the Red Sox lineup and a player who had not homered since September 25, 2014, after missing all of 2015 following Tommy John surgery.

This time, Betances’ humanity didn’t seem nearly so amusing, or more disturbingly, all that surprising.

Yankees reliever Dellin Betances served up a first-pitch home run to Boston’s Christian Vazquez on Sunday. AP Photo/Michael Dwyer

Vazquez’s two-run homer, on a 97 mph fastball that was the first pitch Betances threw after relieving Ivan Nova with two out in the seventh, broke a 6-6 tie and provided the Red Sox with a come-from-behind victory in which they overcame two-run Yankee leads twice in the game.

On Friday, it was a first-pitch breaking ball to Ortiz, and most alarmingly, it was the third consecutive outing in which Betances allowed a home run, going back to last Monday in Arlington, an eighth-inning solo shot that was the first home run of Brett …

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