Giancarlo Stanton completed the 2021 season by mashing towards the Pink Sox.
The Yankees slugger has began off 2022 by doing extra of the identical.
Stanton crushed a two-run homer within the sixth inning, his second in as many days, to interrupt a tie and raise the Yankees to a 4-2 win over the Pink Sox on Saturday in The Bronx.
Anthony Rizzo additionally homered for the second straight recreation and Luis Severino threw three strong innings in his first begin in additional than two years because the Yankees clinched the collection victory and opened a season 2-0 for the primary time since 2018.
For the second day in a row, the Yankees’ bullpen was requested to cowl a giant chunk of innings and delivered, this time throwing six no-hit frames to close down the Pink Sox.
Stanton’s decisive blast got here with one out within the sixth inning off Pink Sox starter Nick Pivetta, who had held the Yankees to 3 hits as much as that time. However Stanton took benefit of a dangling slider, driving it 437 toes into the left-field seats in a rush to snap a 2-2 tie.
Together with his line-drive dwelling run in Friday’s 11-inning win, Stanton has homered in six consecutive video games towards the Pink Sox — together with a late-September collection and the AL wild-card recreation at Fenway Park — whereas batting 12-for-24 with 14 RBIs.
Severino, making his first begin for the reason that 2019 ALCS (he was restricted to only six aid innings since then due to Tommy John surgical procedure and varied setbacks), supplied an total encouraging, if transient, debut. He struck out 5 and averaged 97.8 mph on his fastball, although he gave up 5 hits and his return was blemished by a two-run homer from Alex Verdugo within the second inning.
Severino cruised via the primary inning on 13 pitches, putting out Rafael Devers and Xander Bogaerts.
However his second inning was rockier, thanks partly to a pair of fielding misplays behind him. J.D. Martinez led off the second with a floor ball to shortstop, however Isiah Kiner-Falefa was not capable of subject it cleanly.
Alex Verdugo made the Yankees pay, crushing a 98 mph fastball from Severino into the right-field seats to place the Pink Sox up 2-0.
Trevor Story then hit a fly ball to left subject that Joey Gallo dove for however couldn't deal with. The 2 miscues compelled Severino to throw extra pitches to get out of the inning, which proved to be pricey as a result of the ultimate batter of the body, Christian Vazquez, labored a 12-pitch at-bat earlier than lastly grounding out.
Gallo’s tough day continued. Within the backside of the second, he ripped a rocket off the right-field wall, however was thrown out simply by Jackie Bradley Jr. attempting to stretch the hit right into a double. Then, within the high of the third, Gallo let a fly ball off the left subject wall bounce previous him, permitting Rafael Devers to make leg out a double.
However Severino stranded Devers at second, putting out Bogaerts and Martinez to finish the third.
Severino allowed a leadoff single to Verdugo within the fourth, marking the top of his day after 65 pitches.
Ron Marinaccio relieved Severino to make his MLB debut and flirted with hazard, because the Pink Sox put runners on the corners. However the Toms River, N.J., native escaped with a strikeout.
Rizzo then delivered his second two-run homer in as many days, a shot to proper subject off Pivetta to tie the rating 2-2 within the fourth.
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