NEW YORK — Just when the Yankees and Red Sox seem to have shown us everything that can possibly happen on a baseball field, a new chapter is written.
Through six and a half innings the teams matched each other blow for blow, the game knotted 2-2 when Yanks' outfielder Aaron Hicks strolled to the plate with no outs. Hicks turned around an 86-mile per hour change-up that resulted in his first homer as a Yankee, giving New York the lead, 3-2.
Cool.
Don't get me wrong: that mattered, because it set up what happened in the ninth, but really, Hicks' homer will end up a footnote.