BOSTON — Masahiro Tanaka gave up only one run to the Red Sox on Sunday night, and even though he was effective, he couldn’t get out of the fifth inning.
It took 97 pitches for the right-hander to go 4 2/3 innings, and afterward, he said there wasn’t much he could do about the high pitch count.
“You do want to keep it down,’’ Tanaka said through an interpreter after a 5-4, 10-inning Yankees loss at Fenway Park. “But in a game like today, you don’t want to give up a run. You need to throw a number of pitches to do that.