The Red Sox were down to their final strike and on the verge of losing for the tenth time in their last eleven Friday games.
Then, on the eighth pitch of an at bat in front of a stadium full of screaming Yankee fans who thought it was the last of the night, Masataka Yoshida did this:
Boom! To extra innings we go for the second time in as many games!
Actually, Justin Slaten had to get through the bottom of the ninth inning first, but he set the Yankees down so fast on six pitches, it almost felt like that frame didn’t even happen.