
After Opening day was pushed back a day because of rain (I got 4 inches in my basement, had to take off of work, and spent most of the day with a plumber going over what will be major work on my house) the game started off very poorly, as I just mentioned. After starter Gerrit Cole gave up a walk on four pitches to the first hitter, a HR, a single and a double followed, and the Yankees were down 3-0 just four batters into the game. Cole settled in after that, giving up just one more hit in his four innings of work.
Anthony Rizzo got the Yankees back in the game with a 2-run HR in the bottom of the first inning. Maybe it was Opening Day jitters, may it was the shortened spring training, but both starters had trouble in the first inning.
Giancarlo Stanton hit a laser shot, a screaming liner that cleared the short porch in right to tie the game up at 3 apiece in the bottom of the fourth inning.
Boston got a run to go up 4-3 in the sixth, but D.J. LeMahieu tied it up again in the bottom of the eighth with a HR of his own.
To extra innings, and that ghost runner rule that is going away next year. Boston scored in the top of the tenth but the Yankees tied it up in the bottom half on a SF by PH Gleyber Torres.
Winner Michael King kept Boston from scoring in the top of the eleventh, and Donaldson, leading off the bottom of the eleventh, drove in ghost runner Isiah Kiner-Falefa with his game winning single.
Donaldson 2 hits, GW RBI
Judge 2 hits
Rizzo 2-run HR (1)
Stanton HR (1)
LeMahieu HR (1)
Cole 4 IP, 3 R, 4 H, 1 W, 3 K. 1 HBP. Gave up 1 HR. 6.75
Green 1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 W, 0 K. 0.00
Holmes 2/3 IP, 1 R, 3 H, 0 W, 0 K. 13.50
Castro 1/3 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 1 W, 1 K. 0.00
Loaisiga 1 1/3 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 W, 1 K. 0.00
Peralta 2/3 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 W, 1 K 0.00
Chapman 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 W, 2 K 0.00
King
Earlier in the day, Aaron Judge, who is being offered $17MM this season from the Yankees while he asked for $21 MM in arbitration, turned down a 7 Yr./$213.5 MM extension offer from the Yankees. He’s a free agent after the season. That’s a lot of moolah to turn down (I could use that to pay my plumbing expenses).