BOSTON — Alex Cora has said it so often these past few weeks that it’s felt like a recording. If you give the other team more than 27 outs, they’re going to make you pay.
But after being the ones paying for defensive slip-ups in recent days, the Red Sox finally got a chance to punish their opponents, and Justin Turner was up for the task.
After the New York Yankees twice failed to get out of the bottom of the third on what should have been routine infield grounders, Turner crushed his second home run of the night for a grand slam, blowing the game open in what wound up a 15-5 win for the Red Sox.
