Dobbins Does a Job on Yanks Again. Boston 4 NY 3

June 15, 2025 paperbacklou 2025 0
Austin Wells rips and RBI single in the 7th.

Hunter Dobbins, the rookie righthander who said last week “If the Yankees were the last team to give me a contract, I’d retire,” beat them for the 2nd time in 6 days, throwing 6 innings of 2-hit, shutout baseball in the Red Sox 4-3 victory on a Saturday night at Fenway.

The Yankees scored 3 runs against the Boston bullpen — but fell a hit short: in the 9th Jasson Dominguez doubled in a run with 2 outs, and was on 2nd as the tying run — but Austin Wells flied out against former Yankee Greg Weissert to end it.

NY wasted a possible opportunity for a run in the 7th when Jasson Dominguez got picked off 2nd with 1 out after he forgot how many strikes there were on the batter, Trent Grisham.

“They obviously hit the ball around on us in NY; we’ve pitched them tough these first couple games, we haven’t scored; it’s baseball,” said manager Aaron Boone afterwards.

On Dobbins, Boone said “He’s got a lively fastball at the top of the zone, I thought he had a little presence with his splitter for the lefties, and it looked like he was spinning the ball pretty well — was able to keep us off balance enough to not really string anything together against him.”

NY falls to 42-27, in 1st in the AL East by 4.5 games over Tampa and Toronto. Boston improves to 36-36, in 4th place, 7 games back.

1. Rodon Pretty Good, But Not Good Enough

This was a rematch of the Carlos Rodon vs Hunter Dobbins matchup of last weekend at Yankee Stadium. In that one, Rodon was throwing a shutout thru 4 innings, but allowed a 2-run HR in the 5th and a 3-run HR in the 6th.

This time Rodon did not allow any HR’s, and pitched pretty well but got outdueled by Dobbins.

Rob Refsnyder led off the game with a double, but Rodon got a strikeout and fly out. With 2 outs, former Yank Carlos Narvaez hit a grounder to the hole at short that Anthony Volpe tried to make a Derek Jeter -esq jump throw on — which would have been his 3rd in 3 days — but this time his throw to 1st was off and Paul Goldschmidt couldn’t scoop it — it went past him for a Volpe error and the run scored.

Rodon pitched a shutout 2nd and a 1-2-3 inning in the 3rd, but in the 4th Carlos Narvaez led off with a double, and with 1 out Trevor Story doubled him home. Boston 2 NY 0.

Rodon allowed a 3rd run in the 5th — a 2-out double by Romy Gonzalez scoring Kristian Campbell who was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning.

Rodon left after allowing a leadoff double to Story in the 6th.

Yerry de Los Santos came in and Boston moved the runner with a sacrifice and sac fly. Boston 4 NY 0.

2. Dobbins Throws 6 Shutout Innings

Meanwhile Hunter Dobbins was tough. The Yanks pecked at him in the first two innings — a leadoff single by Trent Grisham in the 1st, and a 1-out single by Jazz Chisholm Jr. and walk by Anthony Volpe in the 2nd — but in both cases Dobbins got out of it.

Dobbins then threw a 1-2-3 inning in the 3rd and 4th. Anthony Volpe led off the 5th with a single but Dobbins got 3 straight outs to end that inning, and then pitched a 1-2-3 inning in the 6th.

Dobbins got a little help from his defense — in the 6th, Marcelo Mayer made a tremendous play on a shot down 3rd to just nab Aaron Judge. Judge went 0-4 on the night.

Dobbins mix of 95-MPH fastball, 88-MPH slider, 80-MPH sweeper, occasional 94-MPH splitter, and 80-MPH curve kept the Yankee offense off balance.

3. The Martian & Wells Plate 2 in 7th

Dobbins left after 6 innings and the Yankees immediately pounced on reliever Luis Guerrero. Paul Goldschmidt led off the 7th by just missing a homer to the short porch in right — just foul — then worked a 7-pitch walk.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. followed by working a 6-pitch walk, and after Anthony Volpe lined out to shortstop, Jasson Dominguez singled to center for a 4-1 game.

Former Yank Justin Wilson relieved Guerrero, and next batter Austin Wells singled to left and it was 4-2 and the Yanks were cooking.

And then just like that Jasson Dominguez was picked off 2nd — thinking Trent Grisham had struck out.

4. de Los Santos Throws 3 Shutout Innings

After relieving Rodon in the 6th, de Los Santos pitched a shutout 7th and 8th to finish with 3 shutout innings.

5. A Hit Short in 9th

Former Yankee Greg Weissert came in for the 9th, Boston up 4-2, and Paul Goldschmidt greeted him with a leadoff double.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. grounded out, moving Goldschmidt to 3rd, and a groundout by Anthony Volpe scored him making it 4-3.

Jasson Dominguez then doubled to left to put the tying run on 2nd, but Austin Wells flied out to center for the old ballgame.

The Boxscore

https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401695955

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