Bello & Blown Chances Spell Sweep. Boston 2 NY 0

June 16, 2025 paperbacklou 2025 0
Max Fried threw down at Fenway Park -- pitching 7 innings of 6-hit, 2-run ball, striking out 9 and walking 2.

The Yankees had baserunners in each of the first 5 innings, and were set up with 1st and 2nd and nobody out in the 8th – but blundered the opportunities away with double plays, strikeouts, and – for the 2nd time in 2 days – having a sleeping runner picked off 2nd base.

It all spelled 2-0 shutout for Brayan Bello and the Red Sox bullpen, and a sweep of the 3-game series at Fenway Park.

On a Sunday afternoon in Boston; Father’s Day.

“Especially when you’re playing the Red Sox you always want to put your best foot forward. They took us down this weekend,” said manager Aaron Boone afterwards. “Back to back weekends. So you hate that. But we have a really good club; just didn’t play our best this weekend. Obviously had a hard time putting runs on the board. Overall I thought we pitched pretty well, and did enough run-prevention wise to keep them in check to win some games, but didn’t get much going.”

NY drops to 42-28, in 1st in the AL East by 3.5 games over Tampa and 4.5 over Toronto. Boston improves to 37-36, now 6.5 back after sweeping the 3-game series (and taking 2 of 3 in NY last weekend).

Bosox Trade Devers After the Game

Red Sox fans only had 3 hours to enjoy the win and sweep — 3 hours after the game — at around 8pm EST — the Red Sox announced they had traded Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants for pitcher Jordan Hicks, pitcher Kyle Harrison, and outfield prospect James Tibbs.

1. Fried Terrific – Deserved Better

Max Fried did his job – 7 innings of 6-hit, 2-run ball, striking out 9 and walking 2.

He allowed a run in the 1st on a 2-out triple by Romy Gonzalez and single by Trevor Story, and then allowed a 2-out solo homer to Rafael Devers in the 5th – and that was it.

Ironically — it would be Devers’ last homerun against the Yankees as a member of the Red Sox, as he was traded to San Fran 3 hours after the game ended.

Fried took the tough loss to go 9-2 1.89.

2. Bello Very Good; Yanks Blow Many Chances

It wasn’t just Yankee blunders that blew this game for them. They were up against Brayan Bello — Boston’s top young 6’1 righthander who is coming off a 14-8 4.49 season last year – one of the bright spots in the season for Boston. The 26-yr-old came into this game with a 2-1 3.96 slash line.

Bellow pitched well – although the Yanks peppered him constantly in the first 5 innings.

  • Trent Grisham led off the game with a double – but Ben Rice popped out — Trevor Story barely catching the ball behind 2nd as he lost it in the bright sky — and Aaron Judge struck out. Cody Bellinger worked a 2-out walk to put runners on 1st and 2nd, but Jazz Chisholm Jr. grounded out to 2nd to end the inning.
  • J.C. Escarra worked a 2-out walk in the 2nd, but Oswald Peraza struck out to end the inning.
  • Ben Rice ripped a 1-out single to right in the 3rd, and after Judge struck out again, Cody Bellinger reached on an infield single — so Yanks had runners on 1st and 2nd with 2 outs. But with Jazz Chisholm Jr. up — Ben Rice got picked off 2nd to end the inning. It was the 2nd time in 2 games the Yanks had someone get picked off 2nd — Jasson Dominguez forgot how many strikes there were the night before.
  • Jazz Chisholm Jr. walked to lead off the 4th, but was immediately erased by a double play hit into by Anthony Volpe.
  • Trent Grisham reached on an error with 2 outs in the 5th but Ben Rice flied out to end the inning.
  • Bello then struck out the side in the 6th, and pitched a 1-2-3 inning in the 7th (ground out, pop out, strike out of Escarra).

Bello’s line: 7 IP, 3 hits, 0 runs, 8 K’s, 3 walks. He wins to go 3-1 3.49.

3. Yanks Rally in 8th Snuffed by Another Doubleplay

Bello was good; but Brennan Bernardino is not as good — and the Yanks have ripped the 6’4 lefty this season. Bernardino came in to pitch the 8th with Boston up 2-0, and the Yankees pounced.

Paul Goldschmidt led off with a single to left, and Trent Grisham followed with another single to left.

DJ LeMahieu worked the count 3-2 — then took a sinker low — that the ump called a strike for strike 3.

Aaron Judge hit a shot down 3rd — for a double play. End of inning.

4. Leiter Good; Whitlock Saves It

Mark Leiter Jr. pitched a shutout bottom of 8th to keep it 2-0, striking out 2.

But former Yankee Garrett Whitlock pitched a 1-2-3 inning in the 9th — striking out Chisholm and Anthony Volpe swinging for the old ballgame.

The Boxscore

https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401695970

 

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