Rain, Homers Help Yankees to Finally Beat Red Sox

 YANKEES 3 - RED SOX 1 

The Yankees finally have a crooked number in the "win" column against the Boston Red Sox this season. 

Behind a pair of solo homers by Gary Sanchez and Gleyber Torres, the Yankees finally beat the Sox 3-1 at a rain-soaked Yankee Stadium on Saturday night. 

The game was called after six innings due to the heavy rains and strong thunderstorms in the area. At least the Yankees learned something from the last time they waited out a rainstorm with a lead (i.e. their implosion against the Angels a few weeks ago). 

Gerrit Cole was magnificent for the Yankees. He held the Red Sox to a single run on five hits over six innings of work, while stirking out 11. After a rough June, Cole has given up only one earned run in his last two starts, or 15 innings of work. 

The headline however coming out of Saturday's game had to be the incident that occurred in left field when a fan tried to drill Red Sox outfielder Alex Verdugo with one of the home run balls. Verdugo took issue with it and starting yelling up at the fans and had to be restrained. Alex Cora pulled all of his players off the field and play had to be halted. 

 

This is the second time this week a fan/player incident has occurred at a baseball game. Earlier this week in Little Falls, New Jersey players from the New Jersey Jackals and Sussex County Miners went into the stands after a fan allegedly threw beer onto a Miners player in the visiting dugout. 

Clearly there are a lot of tensions in the nation right now, but the wild behavior between fans and players is getting out of hand. No player should be the target of fans throwing stuff onto the field. And players have no reason to go into the stands.