A bad day for Yankees ends with feel-good victory

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NEW YORK — It can’t really compensate for the loss of one, and maybe two, key players, but the Yankees got some measure of relief at the end of a bad day with a 3-2 win over the Boston Red Sox on Friday night at Yankee Stadium in the first game of a three-game weekend series, and a 10-game homestand.

Aaron Hicks, who misread two fly balls in center field in the sixth inning, creating a bases-loaded jam for Michael Pineda, provided the margin of victory with a home run on the first pitch he saw from Rick Porcello leading off the bottom of the seventh. It was only the fourth hit of the year for Hicks, who came into the game batting .091, and his first extra-base hit.

The home run, a line shot into the right-field seats, was a measure of redemption for Hicks, whose inability to reach soft line drives by Travis Shaw and Brock Holt in the sixth loaded the bases with one out and left Pineda visibly …

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