When the gate to the visitor’s bullpen opened in the seventh inning, you did not need perfect eyes to see who was entering. All you needed was a functioning pair of ears. The boos that reverberated through the stadium were loud enough that even Giancarlo Stanton — getting loose in the subterranean batting cages — knew it was Boston reliever Joe Kelly.
“I could hear it through the door,” Stanton said.
If the Red Sox and Yankees are destined to revive the passion in their rivalry this season, there will surely be many more confrontations like the one Tuesday night in which Aaron Judge greeted Kelly with a bases-loaded single that gave the Yankees a 3-2 victory.