Gleyber Torres’ two-run double finished a three-run 10th inning, and Aaron Judge hit his 37th home run as he reached base a career-high six times. The New York Yankees came from behind to beat the Boston Red Sox 11-8 on Saturday night.
The game was tied five times, the most in the major leagues this season. New York led 3-0 and 4-3, but Boston took the lead at 5-4, 6-5, and 8-6.
Judge homered for the second night in a row, increasing his league-leading home run total. He had four RBIs and matched his career-best with his 10th game of four hits.
Judge became only the third Yankee to reach base at least six times with at least three RBIs against the Red Sox, joining Babe Ruth on September 28, 1923, and Lou Gehrig on September 5, 1927.
“It’s nice. You love going back and forth, you go up and down this lineup, all the guys out of the bullpen, everybody had an impact on this game,” Judge said. “These are the fun ones, having a good team win like this where guys came up clutch on big at-bats, made plays on defense, big pitching performances.”
Juan Soto hit his 27th home run, and along with Judge, they hit back-to-back homers in the first inning for the third time this season. Trent Grisham tied the game 8-8 with two outs in the ninth inning with a double that hit the Green Monster on a 2-2 pitch from Kenley Jansen.
Austin Wells hit a sacrifice fly off Chase Anderson (0-2) in the 10th inning, and Torres, who had been 0 for 5, doubled off the base of the Green Monster.
“I got a huge opportunity to do something tonight and just tried to (simplify) the situation,” Torres said.
Clay Holmes (2-4) worked around a walk in the 10th inning and retired Masataka Yoshida on a game-ending grounder with two on. This ended a 3-hour, 38-minute game. Holmes pitched two innings, a night after he blew his seventh save by allowing Wilyer Abreu’s tying double and Yoshida’s two-run single in the eighth inning of a 9-7 loss.
