Red Sox Rally to Beat Yankees 9-7 [VIDEO]

The Boston Red Sox rallied to beat the New York Yankees 9-7 Friday night as Masataka Yoshida hit a go-ahead 2-run single in the 8th inning.

Yoshida ended the night 1-3 driving in 3 runs. In his last 22 games, dating to June 24th he is batting .316 with 2 homers, and 3 doubles.

Ceddanne Rafaela hit his 12th homer run of the season, hitting a 2-run homer in the 7th inning. In 11 career games against the Yankees he has 5 homers and 9 RBIs, batting .364.

Rafael Devers was 2-4 with a double and drove in a run. Devers now has 21 RBIs over his last 20 games, beginning on June 30th.

On the mound Brayan Bello started for the Red Sox and went 5.0 innings allowing 5 hits and 3 runs, striking out 4 and walking 2.

Kenley Jansen picked up his 20th save of the season and 440th career save, tying Craig Kimbrel for 4th-most all-time.

Aaron Judge hit a 3-run homer in the 7th inning for Yankees off of Zack Kelly. The homer was projected to go 470 feet. It was his 36th homer of the season.

Kelly allowed 2 homers in 2/3 of an inning in the 7th. He also gave up Austin Wells' 8th homer, a solo homer

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

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