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SPORTS Monday 1 october 2018

Red Sox claim more titles, beating Yankees 10-2 in finale

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Betts finished with a major
league-best .346 average,
Martinez drove in three to
give him an AL-best 130
RBIs, and Rick Porcello
pitched two innings of no-
hit ball before leaving with
a 7-0 lead in his final tune-
up for the postseason. The
2016 AL Cy Young Award
winner is expected to start
Game 3 of the ALDS, fol-
lowing Chris Sale and Da-
vid Price to the mound.
Eduardo Rodriguez (13-5)
was credited with the win
by the official scorer as the
most effective reliever un-
der MLB Rule 9.17(b). Ro-
driguez was the fourth of
eight Boston pitchers, go-
ing one inning and striking
out two.
Xander Bogaerts also hom-
ered for Boston.
MOOKIE JAR
Betts had already taken
the field at the beginning Boston Red Sox’s Xander Bogaerts hits a two-run home run during the second inning of a baseball game against the New York
of the third inning when Yankees in Boston, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018.
Cora sent Tzu-Wei Lin out Associated Press
to replace him, allowing son. It was the earliest Rob- topped the 264 hit by the rookie in major league his- and setting a franchise re-
the AL MVP favorite to get ertson has entered a game 1997 Seattle Mariners. ... tory. cord for wins, the Red Sox
a cheer on his way back to in his career. Andujar hit his 47th double, Red Sox: In winning their improved by 15 victories
the dugout. A brief “M-V- Cessa (1-4) got just one tied for second-most for a third straight AL East title over their 2017 record. q
P!” chant broke out. out, allowing four runs —
Betts led the majors in slug- three earned — on five hits.
ging percentage, runs and Boston added three more
WAR. He is the first player in in the second inning.
baseball history to lead the TRAINER’S ROOM
majors in batting average Yankees: DH Giancarlo
and also top 30 steals and Stanton was a late scratch
30 homers. He is the first AL from the lineup, replaced
player to lead the majors in by Miguel Andujar. The
both batting average and Yankees said it was not inju-
extra-base hits since Mick- ry-related and only to give
ey Mantle in 1956. Stanton some rest.
FIRST-INNING FUMBLES Red Sox: Nunez remained
Four of the first five Red in the game after a bit of
Sox batters reached base a collision with Cessa on his
in the first against Yankees first-inning infield single but
starter Luis Cessa, plus an remained in the game until
error by Aaron Judge that he was pinch run for after a
allowed Betts to score from sixth-inning walk.
first on Brock Holt’s single. SEMI-USEFUL STATS
With one out and run- Yankees: New York finished
ners on second and third, 100-62, its 20th 100-win sea-
Eduardo Nunez hit one to son and a nine-game im-
the right side, beyond the provement over last year.
pitcher’s reach. The Yankees had the third-
First baseman Luke Voit best record in baseball, be-
fielded it and flipped it to hind Boston and Houston. ...
Cessa, who arrived at first They join the Pirates as the
at the same time as the run- only teams to play twice
ner, tagging him but drop- in the wild-card game. ...
ping the ball. Both Cessa Have reached the playoffs
and Nunez need medical in 20 of the past 24 seasons.
attention; Nunez stayed in ... Voit homered, No. 267 on
the game but Cessa was the season for the Yankees,
relieved by David Robert- a major league record that