Significant blunders bite Red Sox in Game 2 loss…
If you didn’t know any better, you may mistake Wednesday’s 4-3 Yankee win in Game 2 of the AL wild-card sequence as one that occurred before 2004, when the Red Sox still discovered methods to lose to the Yankees on a common foundation.
Because for all the Yankees did proper in The Bronx to even the sequence and drive another sport on Thursday, two of the most important causes they survived have been Boston miscues.
First, there was Aaron Judge’s RBI “single” to left in the fifth that briefly put the Yankees up by a run again, when left fielder Jarren Duran dropped the ball with two out, permitting Trent Grisham to rating from second.
But maybe even worse was Nate Eaton stopping at third base when Jazz Chisholm Jr. made a great diving stop of pinch-hitter Masataka Yoshida’s laborious grounder up the center.
Eaton was on second base on the grounder and by the time Chisholm bought up, the second baseman would have had no likelihood to get Eaton at the plate.
And to make issues worse, Chisholm ended up firing to first base, where the ball bought past Ben Rice.
Nate Eaton didn’t run on a play that might have given the Red Sox the lead late in their 4-3 Game 2 AL wild-card loss to the Yankees on Oct. 1, 2025. Ray Stubblebine/UPI/Shutterstock
But Eaton held up at third and Fernando Cruz bought Trevor Story to fly out to deep middle to keep the sport tied in the seventh.
“Obviously, it was a big play,’’ Eaton told reporters after the Yankees went forward in the underside of the eighth and held on for the win.
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Jarren Duran is unable catch Aaron Judge’s RBI single during the fifth inning of the Red Sox’s Game 2 highway loss to the Yankees. Getty Images
That all got here after Cruz changed Carlos Rodón with runners on first and second and no one out in the seventh and light-hitting Ceddanne Rafaela, making an attempt to transfer the runners over, popped up a bunt to help stall the rally.
And that was after Duran, usually regular in left discipline, misplayed Judge’s fly ball into a single that drove in Grisham.
“I was just playing pretty deep on Judge and as I was coming in, I thought it was a little higher than it was,’’ Duran said. “I didn’t really have to go into a full dive there and just kind of pushed the ball on myself a little more. It kind of got really up on me. It’s on me.”
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