In one of the classic games of their long and illustrious rivalry, the Boston Red Sox finally outlasted the New York Yankees 6-5 in 19 innings early on Saturday when the game-ending double play was made at 2.13am.
In the first meeting of the year between the teams, Boston at last went ahead for good on a sacrifice fly by Mookie Betts of Esmil Rogers (0-1). Xander Bogaerts scored the decisive run after reaching on his fourth hit in extra innings.
Chase Headley and Mark Teixeira hit tying home runs for the Yankees in an early-season epic interrupted by a power outage for 16 minutes in the 12th. That's why the official time of game was 6 hours, 49 minutes - even though it took more than 7 hours to complete.
David Ortiz hit a solo homer for Boston to break a 3-all deadlock in the 16th. But then Teixeira led off the bottom half with a no-doubt drive to left field off knuckleballer Steven Wright (1-0).
Pablo Sandoval put the Red Sox back in front with an RBI single in the 18th only to see Brian McCann and Carlos Beltran hit doubles in the bottom half to tie it again.
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