Yankees reliever Chad Green was one strike away from ending the top of the eighth inning with the score still tied 3-3. Rafael Devers had led off with a single, but Hunter Renfroe and Marwin Gonzalez had followed with a strikeout and a pop to third.
Green's 2-2 pitch to Kiké Hernández (whose strikeout with runners on second and third to close the sixth had extended his hitless stretch to 27 at-bats) was ripped into left field. It rolled all the way to the wall. Manager Alex Cora had sent Devers on the pitch and enabled him to score the go-ahead run.