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Wright’s rise continues with masterful 3-hitter
- Updated: May 9, 2016
NEW YORK — Steven Wright’s emergence has been a growing story with the Red Sox this season. On Sunday, it hit prime time, as the knuckleballer produced his best performance yet.
Wright went the distance with a three-hitter and came one out from a shutout, downing the Yankees, 5-1, on Sunday Night Baseball at Yankee Stadium.
Brett Gardner ripped Wright’s 2-1 pitch over the wall in right with two outs in the ninth, but that didn’t lessen his night in the least.
“Obviously it would have been great to get a shutout, but it was more important for me just to throw strikes,” said Wright. “Up, 5-0, I wasn’t going to walk [Gardner]. I figured I’d take my chances, and he put a really good swing on it. We still got the win. That’s the biggest factor in the whole game.”
It was Wright’s first career complete game, as he lowered his ERA to 1.52, placing him behind only Jordan Zimmermann in the American League. Wright stifled the Yankees on just 101 pitches, walking one and striking out seven.
Considering the way Wright is pitching, it’s hard to believe he didn’t even lock down a spot in the starting rotation until the end of Spring Training. …
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