BOSTON -- David Ortiz smashed a two-run home run with one out in the eighth inning to break a 2-2 tie, leading the Boston Red Sox to a 4-2 win over the New York Yankees in the first of 19 meetings between the two rivals on Friday night at Fenway Park.
Ortiz's homer was his fourth of the season and landed in the first row beyond the Green Monster in left field. The decisive hit came off of Yankees' reliever Dellin Betances (0-2), and Ortiz had gone 0-for-7 against Betances with four strikeouts before Friday's late-game heroics.
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