The Los Angeles Angels superstar launched a mammoth 493-foot home run Friday night in the bottom of the sixth inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The blast, his 30th homer of the year and 15th in the month of June alone, is the longest home run hit in MLB this season and the longest of his career. Per MLB’s Sarah Langs, it’s the longest home run hit by an Angels player in the Statcast era (since 2015) and, according to MLB’s Brent Maguire, it’s the longest home run hit at Angel Stadium by anyone during that time.
Ohtani is just the fourth American League player to hit 15 home runs in the month of June. Included in that short list is Babe Ruth (1930) and Roger Maris in 1961, the year he broke Ruth’s longstanding single-season record.
Ohtani’s 15 home runs in June is also an Angels record for home runs in a month and moves him into another exclusive club: He’s just the ninth player ever to hit 30 home runs before the calendar turned to July. The Orioles’ Chris Davis was the last man to do it in 2013; the others to achieve the feat are Babe Ruth (twice), Ken Griffey Jr. (twice), Sammy Sosa (twice), Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, Luis Gonzalez and Albert Pujols.
Unfortunately for Ohtani, he didn’t get much help from the rest of his teammates. His solo homer cut the deficit to 5-1 and the Angels went on to lose 6-2. As a team the Angels managed just four hits, with three-time MVP Mike Trout (two) and Ohtani — who seems well on his way to adding a second MVP award — accounting for three of them. Ohtani ended the night 1-for-2 with two walks and scored both of the Angels’ runs.
Each week, we round up the most notable releases new to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. This week he have some highly anticipated releases on Netflix, as well as some fantasy action and dystopian satire movies on VOD.
Nimona, the long-awaited adaptation of ND Stevenson’s celebrated graphic novel starring Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) and Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal), is available to stream on Netflix, as well as a new psychological horror thriller starring Sarah Snook (Succession). The sci-fi horror comedy M3GAN is finally available to stream on Max, while the new Children of the Corn remake is now streaming on Peacock. On the VOD side of things, we’ve got the live-action adaptation of Masami Kurumada’s classic mythological action manga Saint Seiya starring Mackenyu (Rurouni Kenshin, One Piece) and Sean Bean, as well as a wild grindhouse-style spoof of the classic Swiss children’s story Heidi.
Let’s get into it!
New on Netflix
Nimona
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Image: Netflix
Genre: Fantasy adventure comedy Run time: 1h 41m Directors: Troy Quane, Nick Bruno Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Riz Ahmed
Inspired by ND Stevenson’s beloved 2015 graphic novel, this animated adventure comedy stars Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) as Nimona, a teenager shapeshifter who teams up with the knight (Riz Ahmed) tasked with assassinating her to clear his name of a crime and save her own life.
Run Rabbit Run
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Image: Netflix
Genre: Psychological thriller Run time: 1h 40m Director: Daina Reid Cast: Sarah Snook, Lily LaTorre, Damon Herriman
Sarah (Sarah Snook), a fertility doctor, grows troubled by the strange behavior of her daughter (Lily LaTorre), whose mannerisms and personality begin to resemble that of her long-lost sister, Alice. As she attempts to understand the root of her daughter’s condition, Sarah is forced to confront her own beliefs about life after death as she processes the repressed trauma of her past.
New on Max
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
Where to watch: Available to stream on Max
Image: Max
Genre: Documentary Run time: 1h 44m Director: Stephen Kijak Cast: Rock Hudson, Illeana Douglas, Carole Cook
This documentary delves into the career of Rock Hudson, one of the most iconic and celebrated leading men of Hollywood’s golden age, as well as his private life as a closeted gay man and his tragic passing in 1985 from AIDS complications.
Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music
Image: HBO
Genre: Documentary Run time: 1h 46m Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
In 2016, queer theater luminary Taylor Mac put on a one-time only, 24-hour show that went through the history of American popular music in extravagant fashion. Seven years later, we have a documentary about that day, following the exhilarating (and exhausting) process of performing for 24 consecutive hours, with all the costume changes, musical numbers, and audience interaction that show entailed.
The latest horror film from Housebound director Gerard Johnstone and Malignant screenwriter Akela Cooper follows Gemma (Allison Williams), a roboticist for a Seattle toy company who creates an artificially intelligent doll to look after her orphaned niece, Cady (Violet McGraw). But when the doll begins to commit a series of violent murders ostensibly in service of its prime directive, Gemma will have to fight to protect her niece and the world from what she has created.
From our review:
The graveyard of awful horror comedies is among the saddest and most boring in all of film. It’s filled with hundreds of bad-taste parodies, laughless messes, silly garbage, and probably a few unfortunate movies that weren’t deliberately designed to be laughed at. The worst movies in the subgenre feel like tightrope acts that try too hard to balance what the creators seem to think are two opposite extremes, hoping the audience laughs one moment and screams the next. But following in the footsteps of classics like the original Chucky movie Child’s Play, director Gerard Johnstone and the team behind the new horror comedy M3GAN realize that laughing and screaming aren’t actually that different — and most importantly, that either one can be the key to a great time.
New on Peacock
Book Club: The Next Chapter
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
Image: Focus Features
Genre: Comedy Run time: 1h 47m Director: Bill Holderman Cast: Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen
Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen reprise their roles as Diane, Vivian, Sharon, and Carol in the sequel to the 2018 romantic comedy Book Club. Meeting in person for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the four friends travel to Italy to celebrate Vivian’s upcoming marriage.
New on Shudder
Children of the Corn
Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder
Image: RLJE Films
Genre: Horror Run time: 1h 33m Director: Kurt Wimmer Cast: Elena Kampouris, Kate Moyer, Callan Mulvey
Kurt Wimmer’s 2020 adaptation of Stephen King’s 1977 short story centers on Boleyn Williams (Elena Kampouris), a high school girl who finds herself at odds with a psychopathic 12-year-old rallying the other children in her small Nebraska town to kill every adult who stands in their path. It is the 11th Children of the Corn movie, but it’s not connected to any of the previous ones.
New on VOD
Knights of the Zodiac
Where to watch: Available to purchase for $14.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Photo: Stage 6/Toei Animation
Genre: Fantasy action Run time: 1h 52m Director: Tomasz Baginski Cast: Sean Bean, Famke Janssen, Mackenyu
This mythological martial arts fantasy film based on Masami Kurumada’s manga Saint Seiya follows the story of teenage orphan Seiya (Mackenyu) who, after being recruited by a wealthy billionaire (Sean Bean), learns that he is destined to protect the reincarnation of the goddess Athena (Madison Iseman). Donning the armor of the Pegasus Knight, Seiya must do battle against supernatural forces in order to protect humanity from harm.
From our review:
[There are] two things for new viewers to enjoy: Bean and Janssen’s unfortunately brief performances, and short, erratic bursts of creative action. It seems like the people behind Knights of the Zodiac started by drawing on the worst part of the franchise, then kept making progressively worse decisions. The movie’s only saving grace is that there was once a ’90s live-action American TV pilot (only 19 seconds of which have survived), so Knights of the Zodiac at least can’t be called it the worst piece of Saint Seiya media ever made.
Showing Up
Where to watch: Available to purchase for $5.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Photo: Allyson Riggs/A24
Genre: Dramedy Run time: 1h 47m Director: Kelly Reichardt Cast: Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, André 3000
Kelly Reichardt (First Cow) is a special filmmaker, the kind whose newest work is always appointment viewing. Her latest is Showing Up, about a sculptor (Michelle Williams) balancing her professional life with her personal one as she gets ready to open up a new how.
Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret
Where to watch: Available to purchase for $5.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Photo: Dana Hawley/Lionsgate
Genre: Coming-of-age dramedy Run time: 1h 46m Director: Kelly Fremon Craig Cast: Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates
Judy Blume’s iconic coming-of-age story gets this adaptation from Kelly Fremon Craig (The Edge of Seventeen), starring Abby Ryder Fortson (the original Cassie from the Ant-Man movies) as Margaret and Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, and Benny Safdie as her family.
Mad Heidi
Where to watch: Available to rent for $2.99 on Amazon
Image: Raven Banner Entertainment
Genre: Dystopian action adventure Run time: 1h 32m Directors: Johannes Hartmann, Sandro Klopfstein Cast: Alice Lucy, Kel Matsena, Casper Van Dien
This action thriller reimagines the classic Swiss children’s story of Heidi into a gory grindhouse-style exploitation spoof. In a dystopian Switzerland ruled by a tyrannical cheese baron (Casper Van Dien), Heidi embarks on a violent campaign to free her country and avenge her murdered lover.
Love Gets A Room
Where to watch: Available to rent for $3.99 on Vudu
Image: Nostromo Productions
Genre: Drama Run time: 1h 43m Director: Rodrigo Cortés Cast: Clara Rugaard, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Mark Ryder
Inspired by a true story, Love Gets A Room is a real-time World War II drama that follows a Jewish actress caught in the Nazi occupation of Poland, and her theater troupe’s bold efforts to stage the play the movie derives its title from in the face of that occupation.
Jamie Foxx’s $10.5 million California mansion appears to be getting an upgrade as his health condition continues to remain up in the air.
Foxx’s sprawling 17,000-square foot Hidden Valley estate was seen being renovated in photos obtained by Page Six on Friday.
The snaps show a large dumpster filled with discarded building materials sitting in the backyard of the luxurious home.
Handyman equipment like a ladder and a worker’s table and slabs of wood were also seen beneath his wrap-around balcony.
It’s unclear what kind of refurbishments were being made to the not-so-humble abode and his rep did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
The “Ray” actor, 55, reportedly purchased the Mediterranean-style villa, which sits on 40 acres of land with panoramic mountain views, in 2007.
A massive dumpster was spotted on Foxx’s property. SplashNews.comWorkers’ tools and equipment were also seen on the estate.SplashNews.comFoxx purchased the abode in 2007 for $20.5 million. SplashNews.com
The home was built in 1995 and consists of 10 bedrooms, 12 baths, a formal living room dining area, game room, gym, gourmet kitchen, library, a recording studio and five-car garage.
Arguably the most impressive feature of the home is Foxx’s opulent primary bedroom, which includes a sitting room, two large fireplaces, dual baths, a sauna and a balcony.
And outside, the home is just as decked out as the inside. The property features a grand Olympic swimming pool with outdoor cabanas, multiple tennis courts, guest houses, a customized basketball court with stadium-style seating.
His yard is complete with an Olympic-sized swimming pool.SplashNews.comThe property also has a basketball court with stadium seating. SplashNews.com
It’s unknown if the Oscar winner has been staying in the massive residence amid his health struggles.
Page Six exclusively reported last week that Foxx was “recovering well” after he suffered a “medical complication” that sent him to the hospital while filming Netflix action comedy “Back in Action” in Atlanta on April 11.
Foxx gave fans an update in May, taking to his Instagram Story with the statement: “Appreciate all the love!!! Feeling blessed.”
Rumors started swirling that Foxx’s health had taken a turn for the worse, but his daughter Corinne, 29, denied the claims later that month, sharing that he was “recuperating” and had “been out of the hospital for weeks.”
The actor suffered a “medical complication” on April 11. Billy Farrell/BFA.comHis family has been very private about his current state of health. Instagram/@iamjamiefoxx
While Foxx’s family members remain tight-lipped about the details of his current standing, though his reps did deny the “completely inaccurate” claims from gossip columnist AJ Benza on Dr. Drew Pinsky’s show that the actor had been harmed by the COVID-19 vaccine.
Mike Tyson, who is planning a biopic starring Foxx, claimed he suffered a stroke, though that has not been confirmed.
For more Page Six you love …
Corinne, his other daughter Annalise, 14, as well as Annalise’s mother, Kristin Grannis, have all visited him at a recovery clinic.
Foxx’s daughter Corinne claimed that he was recovering. JamieFoxx/instagram
This week, a source claimed that he is still in recovery but not back to where he should be.
“He is getting the best care and working hard to recover right now, but he is still not himself,” the source told People. “He has the tightest circle around him.”
But John Boyega shared on Tuesday that he has talked to the “Django Unchained” star on the phone and he’s “doing well.”
US home prices are on the cusp of a major correction due to “cratering” demand among cash-strapped buyers, a prominent economist warned in a note to clients on Tuesday.
Ian Shepherdson, a chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, noted that single-family home listings have surged by 40% in the last four months even as unit sales plummet due to sky-high prices and rising mortgage rates.
Given current conditions, US home prices are likely “about 15 to 20% overvalued” compared to incomes, according to Pantheon’s calculations – setting the table for major declines.
“The market is adjusting to a new reality, with much lower sales volumes and far more inventory. Prices, therefore, have to adjust to the downside, likely quite substantially,” Shepherdson said.
Sales of new single-family homes plunged by 8.1% to 590,000 units in June, Commerce Department data showed on Tuesday. Sales have now fallen to their lowest level since 2020, according to Reuters.
The Federal Reserve is set to hike interest rates again this week.Getty Images
New home sales figures “closely” follow the data on mortgage applications “which make it clear that demand is cratering,” according to Shepherdson.
Shepherdson also said clients should “ignore” the latest data from S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, which showed a 1% month-to-month increase in prices on the national level in May.
The economist noted that the Case-Shiller report utilizes a three-month average and does not account for rapid changes in the US housing market.
New home sales plunged in June.Bloomberg via Getty Images
“The sellers’ market of the early spring became a buyers’ market more or less overnight, as large numbers of potential purchasers had their spending power dramatically reduced—or were pushed out of the market altogether—by the surge in mortgage rates,” Shepherdson said.
As The Post reported last week, the volume of mortgage loan applications recently hit a 22-year low as prospective homebuyers face the dual pressure of surging inflation and high interest rates.
Home prices may be as much as 20% overvalued relative to income, according to an economist.Getty Images
Mortgage rates have risen steadily as the Federal Reserve hikes its benchmark interest rates in a bid to cool the economy. The Fed is expected to enact another hike of at least three-quarters of a percentage point on Wednesday.
Pantheon Macroeconomics projects that seasonally-adjusted existing single-family home prices declined by 0.4% from April to May and by another 1.8% from May to June.
Another prominent economist, Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics, recently warned the housing market was on the cusp of a “deep freeze” due to soaring mortgage rates.
Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Suffolk) is vowing to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes on “day one” if elected over Gov. Kathy Hochul this November.
“The special prosecutor should pursue justice for thousands of New York families who have lost their loved ones and should not give up that fight,” the GOP hopeful told the Post Wednesday.
“If a special prosecutor determines that no criminal statutes were violated then so be it so long as it’s a thorough investigation that seeks out the truth,” he added.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rep. Lee Zeldin has promised to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate COVID-19 deaths in New York nursing homes.William Farrington
Such an investigation would focus on actions taken by ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the early months of the pandemic, including a controversial March 2020 directive that critics say contributed to the death toll among nursing home residents.
Zeldin said that he would look to a current or former district attorney to conduct the investigation, which he expected could take somewhere around six months or a year to complete.
The special prosecutor could expand the scope of the probe to include other controversial topics like a multimillion-dollar book deal on the pandemic that Cuomo inked before his political downfall, according to Zeldin.
“It’s clear to many that wrongdoing took place,” Zeldin said.William Farrington
“New Yorkers know cheap and craven politics when they see it and they generally don’t award it with votes,” Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi said in a text.
The former governor resigned last year amid a long list of alleged wrongdoing that included a reported cover-up of data detailing the deaths of thous ands of seniors in hospitals, which his administration did not include in the official tally of nursing home deaths.
“The full number of COVID fatalities in New York has never been in dispute and craven attempts to further politicize this pandemic become more and more transparent each passing day,” Azzopardi told the Post last week.
Zeldin said the goal of the investigation would be to uncover the truth, even if it exonerates the accusations against Cuomo.William Farrington
A blockbuster January 2021 report by the office of State Attorney General Letitia James found in that the Cuomo administration roughly undercounted nursing home deaths by thousands of people.
Months later, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli stated in a report of his own that state health officials hid the data to boost Cuomo politically.
“It’s clear to many that wrongdoing took place. It’s clear that an investigation was launched and then it was ended without any public report,” Zeldin said.
Zeldin said the special prosecutor investigation would “pursue justice for thousands of New York families who have lost their loved ones” in the early days of COVID. AP Photo/John Minchillo, File
Cuomo has denied wrongdoing and past probes of his handling of nursing homes by the Manhattan DA and federal officials did not lead to any criminal charges.
The Long Island Republican, who was endorsed by The Post’s Editorial Board weeks ago, is running in the Nov. 8 election against Hochul, who served as Cuomo’s lieutenant governor for two terms.
Hochul vowed months ago to conduct a broad investigation to the bottom of the state response to the pandemic, but she has yet to take any significant steps, such as appointing investigators, despite ongoing pressure from legislators and families of people who died of COVID-19.
The investigation could include other topics including former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 book deal, according to Zeldin.AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
“She’s slow-walking this investigation as a political move. She’s slowing the investigation because she was part of the administration. She was silent when Cuomo issued the order to put COVID patients in nursing homes. She was silent the whole time. We already don’t trust her,” Tracey Alvino, assistant director of Voices for Seniors – whose father, Daniel Alvino, died of COVID in West Islip Nursing Home – told The Post last week.
Albany Democrats have also kept a bipartisan bill establishing a nursing home investigation from moving forward in the legislative session that ended last month.
If Hochul ever launches a probe, Zeldin said he would consider continuing it – if elected – though he added that he would have to wait to see what progress might be made by the end of the year.
“All we know right now is that the investigation has just been getting delayed because the governor is purposely dragging her feet,” Zeldin added.
A spokeswoman for Hochul’s campaign declined to comment.
At least one police officer has died and several more were injured when a man barricaded himself inside his Kentucky home and opened fire on Thursday.
Sheriff deputies were attempting to serve an emergency protective order stemming from a domestic dispute at a Floyd County home at around 5 p.m. when the suspect immediately started shooting at them from inside the house, according to local news station WMDJ FM.
Two officers were hit at that point and the firing continued, LEX18 reported.
The ordeal quickly turned into an active shooter and hostage situation as the male suspect barricaded himself inside the home with his wife and daughter and continued offloading bullets at responding officers.
The deputies called for backup and several agencies responded, including state police, officers from neighboring counties and a SWAT team.
The stand-off lasted nearly five hours and ended with the suspect being taken into police custody, WMDJ reported. His wife and daughter were unharmed.
Multiple officers from different agencies were shot and rushed to area hospitals. Four to six officers were shot in total, according to local reports.
Mountain Top News reports deputies from the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office went to a home on Railroad Street to serve a suspect with papers. They say as they approached the home, they came under fire. pic.twitter.com/66kSMWd0l7
California firefighters were working to contain a massive blaze at a San José Home Depot that could be seen from outer space Saturday evening.
Residents were asked to avoid the commercial area in the southern part of the city as the fire department battled the five alarm fire, officials said.
No injuries had been reported from the fire. It was unclear exactly when or how it started.
“If you live/work in the area of this fire on [Blossom Hill] and smell smoke, we recommend that you shelter in place. Close all doors and windows to minimize smoke from getting inside,” the SDFD tweeted.
A pet hospital in the area had been evacuated and a meeting place was announced for owners to pick up their sick animals, authorities said.
An aerial shot shows the massive blaze at a San José Home Depot on April 9, 2022 in San Jose, California.Twitter/@Robert Handa, NBC Bay AreaThe fire department is seen battling the five alarm blaze at a San José Home Depot on April 10, 2022.Twitter/@Robert Handa, NBC Bay Area
A woman who lived 3 miles away from the scene alerted the department on Twitter that debris from the inferno was “falling on my property.”
The National Weather Service said heat-sensing satellites above the atmosphere were able to detect the humongous fire.
A government watchdog is demanding the US Attorney probing Hunter Biden in Delaware investigate tens of millions in anonymous donations from China to the University of Pennsylvania, where an academic center is named for his father, President Biden.
The Ivy League college raked in a total of $54.6 million from 2014 through June 2019 in donations from China, including $23.1 million in anonymous gifts starting in 2016, according to public records.
Most of the anonymous donations came after the university announced in February 2017 that it would create the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. Joe Biden, whose term as vice president had just ended, was to lead the center and was also named a professor at the university.
The center, which is located in Washington, DC., opened its doors in February 2018. Antony Blinken, whom Biden named as Secretary of State, briefly served as its managing director.
The Ivy League university received $15.8 million in anonymous Chinese gifts that year, including one eye-popping $14.5 million donation in May 2018, records show.
The flurry of donations may be related to Hunter Biden’s business interests in China, the National Legal and Policy Center, a Virginia-based watchdog, alleged in complaints sent in May and October 2020 to the Departments of Education and Justice.
Penn Biden Center — located in Washington, DC. — opened its doors in February 2018.
Last week, the group asked US Attorney David Weiss to step in and investigate the Chinese largesse to the school as part of his federal tax probe of Hunter Biden.
“We’ve asked … Weiss to pursue the larger network of individuals and institutions who benefited from millions doled out by foreign interests connected to Hunter Biden’s work in China and Ukraine,” said Tom Anderson, director of the NLPC’s Government Integrity Project.
In its 12-page complaint, the watchdog cited a 2017 text found on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop that CEFC China Energy Co, one of the firms that Hunter Biden had a financial stake in, wanted to lobby politicians in the US but did not want to register under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), required for all foreign lobbyists.
“We don’t want to have to register as foreign agents under the FCPA [sic] which … is much more expansive than people who should know choose not to know,” reads the May 1, 2017, text sent from Hunter Biden to his former business partner Tony Bobulinski.
A University of Pennsylvania spokesman denied any anonymous Chinese money had gone to the center.
“The Penn Biden Center has never solicited or received any gifts from any Chinese or other foreign entity. In fact, the University has never solicited any gifts for the Center,” Stephen MacCarthy said.
Although the center’s mission statement says it does not accept contributions, MacCarthy contended that it had received a combined $1,100 in three unsolicited gifts from two donors since 2017, but said both donors are Americans.
He would not disclose the identity of the donors or say how the massive, anonymous Chinese funds were used at the school.
After Biden was elected president in 2020, the center said it would operate “completely independent of the Biden administration.”
Other Ivy League colleges have raked in Chinese money, including Harvard, which got $75 million during the 2014-2019 period, and Yale, which received $43.5 million, records show.
The Education Department opened investigations in 2020 into whether Harvard and Yale were meeting reporting requirements for foreign cash.
Giancarlo Stanton finished the 2021 season by mashing against the Red Sox.
The Yankees slugger has started off 2022 by doing more of the same.
Stanton crushed a two-run homer in the sixth inning, his second in as many days, to break a tie and lift the Yankees to a 4-2 win over the Red Sox on Saturday in The Bronx.
Anthony Rizzo also homered for the second straight game and Luis Severino threw three solid innings in his first start in more than two years as the Yankees clinched the series victory and opened a season 2-0 for the first time since 2018.
For the second day in a row, the Yankees’ bullpen was asked to cover a big chunk of innings and delivered, this time throwing six no-hit frames to shut down the Red Sox.
Stanton’s decisive blast came with one out in the sixth inning off Red Sox starter Nick Pivetta, who had held the Yankees to three hits up to that point. But Stanton took advantage of a hanging slider, driving it 437 feet into the left-field seats in a hurry to snap a 2-2 tie.
Giancarlo Stanton gave the Yankees their 4-2 lead with a two-run blast in the sixth inning.Robert SaboGiancarlo Stanton is embraced in the Yankees dugout after his home run.Robert Sabo
Including his line-drive home run in Friday’s 11-inning win, Stanton has homered in six consecutive games against the Red Sox — including a late-September series and the AL wild-card game at Fenway Park — while batting 12-for-24 with 14 RBIs.
Severino, making his first start since the 2019 ALCS (he was limited to just six relief innings since then because of Tommy John surgery and various setbacks), offered an overall encouraging, if brief, debut. He struck out five and averaged 97.8 mph on his fastball, though he gave up five hits and his return was blemished by a two-run homer from Alex Verdugo in the second inning.
Severino cruised through the first inning on 13 pitches, striking out Rafael Devers and Xander Bogaerts.
But his second inning was rockier, thanks in part to a pair of fielding misplays behind him. J.D. Martinez led off the second with a ground ball to shortstop, but Isiah Kiner-Falefa was not able to field it cleanly.
Alex Verdugo made the Yankees pay, crushing a 98 mph fastball from Severino into the right-field seats to put the Red Sox up 2-0.
Luis Severino pitches Saturday during the Yankees’ win over the Red Sox. Robert Sabo
Trevor Story then hit a fly ball to left field that Joey Gallo dove for but could not handle. The two miscues forced Severino to throw more pitches to get out of the inning, which proved to be costly because the final batter of the frame, Christian Vazquez, worked a 12-pitch at-bat before finally grounding out.
Gallo’s rough day continued. In the bottom of the second, he ripped a rocket off the right-field wall, but was thrown out easily by Jackie Bradley Jr. trying to stretch the hit into a double. Then, in the top of the third, Gallo let a fly ball off the left field wall bounce past him, allowing Rafael Devers to make leg out a double.
But Severino stranded Devers at second, striking out Bogaerts and Martinez to end the third.
Anthony Rizzo’s fourth-inning home run tied the game at 2-2.Robert SaboAnthony Rizzo celebrates after his game-tying two-run home run. Robert Sabo
Severino allowed a leadoff single to Verdugo in the fourth, marking the end of his day after 65 pitches.
Ron Marinaccio relieved Severino to make his MLB debut and flirted with danger, as the Red Sox put runners on the corners. But the Toms River, N.J., native escaped with a strikeout.
Rizzo then delivered his second two-run homer in as many days, a shot to right field off Pivetta to tie the score 2-2 in the fourth.
:format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24754059/RunRabbitRun_Netflix_140.jpg)
:format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24756421/Rock_Hudson_All_That_Heaven_Allowed_01.png)
:format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24760650/taylor_mac_2.jpg)
:format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24339109/Megan_2.jpg)
:format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24696112/Book_Club_The_Next_Chapter_01.jpg)
:format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24531000/children_of_the_corn.jpg)
:format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24651002/KOTZ_Dull_Armor.jpg)
:format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24711470/showing_up_01.jpg)
:format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24711479/Are_You_There_God_It_s_Me__Margaret_01.jpg)
:format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24756132/MadHeidi_Still_01.jpeg)
:format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24761483/LGaR_2941_2.jpg)
