Yankees doomed by wild pitch in extra-inning loss to Red Sox

In a season in which they did almost everything right in the first half, the Yankees are finding out how the other half lives. 

The Yankees rallied in the bottom of the ninth to force their third straight extra-inning game, but then failed to score the winning run with the bases loaded in both the ninth and 10th innings before losing to the Red Sox, 5-4, in 11 innings in The Bronx. 

They have lost five of six games, including their last three games against Boston. 

Xander Bogaerts, the automatic runner, scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch with two outs in the top of the 11th. 

Michael King retired the first two batters he faced in the 11th, with Bogaerts advancing to third on a fly out by Alex Verdugo. King, however, then bounced a pitch to Christian Vazquez and the ball rebounded too far away from Jose Trevino as an alert Bogaerts raced home to score. 

The Yankees couldn’t do anything against Ryan Brasier in the bottom of the 11th inning. 

The Red Sox loaded the bases in the 10th against Clay Holmes, who struck out the first two batters he faced with the automatic runner on second, before an intentional walk to Rafael Devers and a single by J.D. Martinez. 

But Holmes recovered and struck out Bogaerts. 

The Yankees scored a run in the bottom of the ninth thanks to some sloppy fielding by the Red Sox after manager Aaron Boone was tossed for arguing a called strike to Matt Carpenter. They had the bases loaded and no one out after that, but couldn’t come up with the game-winning run. Trevino grounded into a double play and DJ LeMahieu was out on a comebacker. 

The Yankees loaded the bases again in the 10th with one out, but Gleyber Torres grounded into a double play to extend the game. 

Yankees starter Jordan Montgomery gave up three runs in six innings, surviving a grueling first inning in which he gave up two runs, left two on and needed 31 pitches to get through. 

Facing Nathan Eovaldi — who was making his first start in over a month after suffering lower back inflammation — and a Red Sox team that had just been swept by the Rays, the Yankees got one big swing from Giancarlo Stanton and little else. 

They played from behind early, as Devers continued to torment them. 

After a leadoff walk by former Yankee Rob Refsnyder, Devers jumped on the first pitch he saw from Montgomery and drilled it for a two-run homer. 

Martinez followed with a ground rule double and Bogaerts’ single to left gave Boston runners on first and third with no one out. 

After a visit from pitching coach Matt Blake, Montgomery got both Verdugo and Vazquez to fly to left, too shallow to score Martinez from third. 

Montgomery then struck out Bobby Dalbec after a 10-pitch at-bat to end the 31-pitch inning and keep it a two-run game. 

In the second, Torres drew a one-out walk and Carpenter reached when his hard shot went through Dalbec’s legs at first. 

But Isiah Kiner-Falefa lined out to third and Kyle Higashioka bounced back to Eovaldi to end the threat. 

In the third, LeMahieu singled with one out and, after Aaron Judge flied to center, Anthony Rizzo worked a walk after falling behind 0-2. Stanton followed by hammering a three-run homer into the right field seats to make it 3-2. 

Montgomery, who retired 10 straight, gave the lead back by allowing a solo shot by Vazquez in the fourth, but made it through six innings with the score knotted at 3-3. 

That changed in the seventh, when Aroldis Chapman replaced Montgomery and gave up a leadoff homer to Dalbec.