Tough night for Yarbrough, big nights from DJ and Wells not enough in 10-7 Loss

New York—The Yankees fell 10-7 to the Red Sox in a sluggfest. Ryan Yarbrough got the start for the Yankees, and Garrett Crochet took the ball for the Red Sox.

Yarbrough worked around a one-out double in the top of the first inning to work a scoreless frame. 

In the bottom of the first inning, Paul Goldschmidt, Ben Rice, and Aaron Judge went down in order for the Yankees. 

In the top of the second inning, the Red Sox got the scoring started thanks to a two-out RBI single from Kristian Campbell to make it 1-0. 

Cody Bellinger legged out a leadoff infield single in the bottom of the second inning. A couple batters later, DJ LeMahieu worked a walk, and Austin Wells followed that up with a three-run home run to give the Yankees a 3-1 lead. 

A heads-up play from Goldy in the top of the third inning to cut down a runner at the plate on a groundball to first base. A couple of batters later, Abraham Toro made it a 3-2 game thanks to an RBI bloop single. The next batter, Trevor Story, hit a bases-clearing double to give the Red Sox a 5-3 lead. A few batters later, Campbell picked up another RBI single to make it 6-3. 

The Red Sox tacked on two more runs in the top of the fourth inning via a two-run home run off the bat of Romy Gonzalez to make it 8-3.

Belli led off the bottom of the fourth inning with a single to right field. The Yankees' hitting coach James Rowson was thrown out of the game for arguing balls and strikes. A few batters later, DJ snuck a groundball single just past the diving Campbell at second base, allowing Belli to go first to third. The next batter, Wells, cut the Sox's lead in half with a RBI double to make it 8-4. The next batter, Pablo Reyes, picked up an RBI groundout to make it an 8-5 game. 

Yerry De los Santos replaced Yarbrough on the mound in the top of the fifth inning and worked into and out of trouble to work a scoreless frame. 

Ryan Yarbrough's final line: four innings pitched, nine hits allowed, eight earned runs, two walks, seven swings and misses, and three strikeouts on 67 pitches. Yarbrough did not have his best stuff tonight at all, as the eight runs he gave up tonight are more than his first five starts, when he gave up six runs combined. 

"Yeah, they just kind of strung a bunch of hits together," Yarbrough said. "And then you feel like you're not necessarily, obviously, they're still getting hits. But it feels like you're giving up a lot of hard contact. But they're just finding a lot of holes and putting things in the right place. And then, of course, you kind of get some hard contact, and things kind of escalate. So, just got to be really better about limiting that damage and limiting those innings and finding ways to get out of it." 

De los Santos remained in the game for the top of the sixth inning and retired the Red Sox in order. 

Jasson Dominguez, DJ, and Wells went down in order in the bottom of the sixth inning for the Yankees. 

De los Santos remained in the game in the top of the seventh inning and faced the minimum and worked a scoreless inning with some help from a tailor-made 4-6-3 double play.

Jazz Chisolm Jr. pinch hit for Reyes in the bottom of the seventh inning and struck out as the Yankees went down in order in the bottom of the seventh inning.

Mark Leiter Jr. took over for De Los Santos in the top of the eighth inning and recorded three strikeouts to work a scoreless inning. 

Rice worked a four-pitch walk to lead off the bottom of the eighth inning. Rice moved up to second base on a passed ball, then moved up to third on a flyout to right field off the bat of Judge. Belli then worked a four-pitch walk, and Belli stole second base. A couple batters later, DJ sent a huge two-out two-run single right back up the middle to make it an 8-7 game. 

Ian Hamilton replaced Leiter in the top of the ninth inning and up a walk a batter and gave up three straight singles, including a two-run single to Story to make it a 10-7 game. 

“You know, walks the leadoff batter, it's right on right there to," Boone said on Hamilton. "You know, loses him and then and then Mayor comes up and gets him and then he's two strikes, with Toro. So just a little bit of a struggle, and really just not getting ahead, and when he did, making a mistake. So it gets a big double play to get out of it. But, you know, it starts with the lead-off walk there." 

Former Yankee Aroldis Chapman came in to close things out in the bottom of the ninth as he retired the Yankees in order to end this one 10-7. 

"I thought we had really good at-bats," DJ said. "And I thought that we had a good approach coming in and we executed the plan, but just fell short today." 

The Yankees will look to win the series tomorrow in the rubber match with Carlos Rodon on the mound, facing off against Hunter Dobbins for the Red Sox. The first pitch is scheduled for 7:10 p.m. ET on ESPN. 

My thoughts on the game: Yarbrough, who has been great this year, unfortunately didn't have it tonight. Great job by De Los Santos and Leiter trying to keep us in the game, but Ian Hamilton coughed that up in the ninth. Great nights from DJ, Wells, and Belli; those three carried a good majority of the offensive load. A rare tough night from Judge as he was struggling picking up Croshett's fastball in his first three ABs. Strange decision from Boone tonight to sit Jazz, who has been red hot since coming off the IL, and start Pablo Reyes, who shouldn't even be on the roster instead. On to tomorrow, still a great chance to win the series with Rodon on the mound.