Red Sox Beat Yankees 5-3 on Dustin Pedroia Night [VIDEO]

It was only fitting that the Boston Red Sox defeated the New York Yankees 5-3 on Dustin Pedroia Night at Fenway Park. The Red Sox honored their former player and newest member of the Red Sox Hall of Fame prior to the game.

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The Red Sox are now 4-0 against the Yankees in 2021, having outscored them 23-13 in the 4 games.

Martin Perez started the game for Boston, but only went 3.2 innings, allowing 6 hits on 3 runs, none of which were earned. He struck out 3 and walked 2.

4 Red Sox relievers combined to toss 5.1 scoreless innings.

• Hirakazu Sawamura went 1.1 innings, striking out 2 and walking 1, stranding the inherited runner in the 4th inning.
• Garrett Whitlock went 2.0 inning, pitching the 6th and 7th innings. He struck out 2 and has a ERA of 0.57 in his last 10 appearances. Friday night's 2 innings was his Major League leading 10th scoreless relief appearance of at least 2.0 innings. No other pitcher had more than 7 prior to Friday night, and the last Red Sox pitcher to have 10 or more scoreless relief appearances of 2.0 innings or more in a seasaon was Scott Atchinson in 2012 when he had 10. Whitlock has 10 before the All-Star break!
• Adam Ottavino went 1.0 inning striking out 2
• Matt Barnes pitched the 9th, getting a game ending double play for his 16th save of the season.

Hunter Renfroe went 1-1, walking twice. He hit a RBI double in the 1st inning and a sacrifice fly in the3rd inning, driving in another run. He also walked twice on the night. He also gunned down another runner at the plate

Christian Vazquez was 2-3 with a RBI single in the 8th inning to give the Red Sox an insurance run.

For the Yankees Miguel Andujar was 3-4. Gio Urshela was 2-4 and Luke Voit was 2-4.

Manager Alex Cora on the game.

The Tampa Bay Rays beat the Los Angeles Angels 4-3 to remain a half game ahead of the Red Sox in 1st place in the AL East.

Boston and New York will play game 2 of the 3 game series Saturday night. The pregame starts at 6:15 p.m. with the 1st pitch at 7:15 p.m. on AM 1370 WDEA.