NEW YORK -- The first time the Boston Red Sox visited Yankee Stadium this season, Roman Anthony was in Worcester, Massachusetts, less than a month after his 21st birthday, pummeling Triple-A pitching. On June 7, the night the Red Sox beat the Yankees 10-7, Anthony blasted a 497-foot grand slam against the Rochester Red Wings, his 10th of the season.
Two days later, Anthony was a major leaguer. And this week, on the Red Sox's next trip to the Bronx, the lefty slugger loudly introduced himself to baseball's most storied rivalry with a two-run moonshot to the second deck at Yankee Stadium with an appropriate bat flip in Boston's series-opening 6-3 win.