In Major League Baseball's Europe debut, the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox slugged it out for an unusually long — and high-scoring — game in London.
Boston starter Rick Porcello and New York’s Masahiro Tanaka got hammered — fittingly in the home of the Premier League soccer club West Ham, nicknamed the Hammers. Neither got out of a first inning that lasted 58 minutes and included 20 batters and 94 pitches. It took 1:51 to play the first three innings and 2:58 for 4½, but unlike in cricket, the teams did not break for tea.that ended the eighth, and Sam Travis hit into a game-ending double play against Aroldis Chapman on the 422nd pitch.
Chad Green allowed four hits in two scoreless innings. Steven Wright lost in his first decision and second appearance since an 80-game suspension for a positive drug test. The 2,200th regular-season meeting between the teams was a scorcher — the hottest day of the year in London at 93 degrees Fahrenheit , and still 92 when the first pitch was thrown at 6:10 p.m. And it was the first on artificial turf.
and took part in the ceremonial first pitch ceremony. Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was on hand, as he was when the Yankees played Tampa Bay at the Tokyo Dome in 2004.Organizers brought touches of home, such as the grounds crew dancing to the Village People’s “YMCA.” The sound system playedBut there were misfires, too. When Gary Sánchez struck out in the second, music was played that usually follows a New York run being scored at Yankee Stadium.
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