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On the
WFAN post-game show, Yankee manager
Joe Girardi put it this way,
"This one hurts." 'Ya think, Joe? On Thursday night, the Red Sox stormed back for five runs in the bottom of the ninth to
smite the Empire 7-5 on a walk-off three-run HR by
Hanley Ramirez. The several thousand "fans" who left Fenway after two were out in the ninth will have to live this win down for a
long time. Those of us who stayed saw the most exciting Fenway win since 2013—and they did it off New York's behemoth closer
Dellin Betances. This victory was
particularly pivotal—allowing Boston to pick up a full game on Baltimore and push
The Evil Ones back to five games out (instead of just three). After
David Ortiz sent a SCUD missile of a line-drive HR to dead center in the eighth (cutting the lead to 5-2),
The Carmine Hose strung together
three two-out-hits (Ortiz,
Mookie Betts and the Hanley walk-off) to send
The Pinstriped Posers to a crushing, ignominious defeat. This was a
very sweet one!
