brett gardner waiting on deck should stewart reach. payoff pitch for the yankee catcher. hits him. >> tim: nunez got out of the way of the up and in fastballs. but not chris stewart. right on the left tricep and i think that's going to be all for lackey.

>> kenny: manager john farrell heads out to the mound. lackey will be replaced by craig breslow. receives an ovation from the crowd. leaves with a 5-1 lead. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] you'll probably never bat in the ninth inning of game 7. or have to make a shot with 20,000 fans screaming at you. or choreograph an original touchdown dance. ♪ but you do have a sport, and every weekend is your chance to take the field. [ fans cheering ] lowe's. never stop improving.

>> kenny: john lackey exits with a 5-1. allows one run on 6 2/3. 33-year-old left-hander craig breslow, the new haven, connecticut, native who graduated from yale university in 2002. he will face a pinch hitter, vernon wells. wells batting for brett gardner. >> tim: it's a bit of a surprise. even though gardner's numbers

are not as good against left handers as vernon wells, wells hitting .300, gardner .242. gardner will be back up probably in this game go it goes to the ninth inning. got to figure if it doesn't, the yankees are going to lose anyway. but it's a bit strange to pinch hit for gardner in this situation. a lot of ways gardner can get on base. >> kenny: slow roller. and middlebrooks unable to bare hand it. wells safe at first. stewart moves to second and the inning continues. >> tim: i'm sure it's a base hit. middlebrooks tried to bare hand it and the ball came up on him. so wells does get on there even though it's an infield hit. sometimes hitters put balls in the spots where nobody can make the play.

>> kenny: it is an infield for wells. two outs for ichiro who has grounded out three times today although he did drive in the yankees only run his last time up. ichiro tim, lifetime against breslow. lefty against lefty is 7 for 15. >> tim: that's not unusual for ichiro hitting better against left-handed pitchers this year than right handers.

>> kenny: the right-hander throwing in the red sox pen. junichi tazawa. stewart and wells the base runners. now 1-2 on ichiro. >> tim: john farrell telling us before the game, that uehara and tazawa have been god sends for the red sox this year. getting much, much more than expected out of the two right handers. >> kenny: 1-2 from breslow. a sharp grounder taken to the bag by carp. ichiro ground out for the fourth time today. yankees strand two. it's seventh inning stretch time here at fenway. ♪

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rid of gray. and by mazda. we believe if it's not worth driving, it's not worth building. changes for the yankees. ichiro moves from right field to center field. vernon wells remains in the game in right after pinch hitting for brett gardner. dustin pedroia leading off against adam warren who retired the only batter he faced. shane victorino to end the sixth inning. yankees starter, hiroki kuroda went 5 2/3. allowed five runs, three earned on 11 hits. so now it's warren, the 25-year-old right-hander out of the university of north carolina. >> tim: tar heel. >> kenny: he was a teammate and good friend with mets ace, matt harvey. >> tim: i had read that. by the way, i think the

matchup -- i think the matchup next week when detroit plays at shea stadium, matt harvey, i beg your pardon, citi field, little freudian slip there. matt harvey and max scherzer, the starters in the allstar game at citifield. >> kenny: matt scherzer, who you predicted along with joe buck on the opening telecast of the season, tigers and yankees, you said during the open that max scherzer would win the american league cy young award. >> tim: i thought that because i thought everything was coming to the and it certainly has come together for a guy who is 17-1. pitches tomorrow against the red hot kansas city royals. and then next saturday at citifield against matt harvey.

that's what's scheduled to happen. that's pretty good. rarely does an allstar matchup pitch after the allstar game. scherzer pitched one inning because he started for the tigers the previous saturday and jim leland did not want to use a pitcher who pitched that saturday more than one inning of the allstar game. >> tim: right. >> kenny: david ortiz, one for three. doubled, came around to score in the fourth inning. they added two runs in the sixth.

>> kenny: ortiz deep center. ichiro watches it. it's gone! number 24 on the season for david ortiz. the 425th home run of his major league career. red sox now lead 6-1. >> tim: i'll tell you, it's disheartening for a pitcher when he's not sure whether the ball is going out or not, when sees the outfielder turn toward the wall. he always wants to see the outfielder's face. the minute he says his back, he knows the ball is at least against the wall.

the home run by david ortiz. home run number 24 on the year. and it was a bomb to center. >> kenny: with 425, he's now one behind billy williams for 47th on the all-time list. mike carp with a base hit down the left field line into the corner. carp in at second with a stand-up double. his second hit today. >> kenn . >> tim: brian cash man of the yankees, finding the pieces, albeit late in the season with the week the yankees have had. you know who else has, ben sherg

ton. i don't think major league baseball had heard of mike carp before this year. but they've heard of him now. nice pickup by ben cherrington, the general manager of the red sox who has done a terrific job. his first move last year. the big trade in august where adrian gonzalez, nick punto -- >> kenny: carl crawford. >> tim: and josh beckett went to the dodgers unloading a ton of salary from the red sox. i did not think that the red sox would be able to move that salary. i don't think anybody did. now look at the hottest team in baseball. the remarkable los angeles dodgers. >> kenny: who will be on fox this jon henry. red sox owner. red sox and dodgers next

saturday. on fox -- in los angeles. red sox lost 93 games a year ago. what a turn around and how about the dodgers. 41-8. 41-8 over their last 49 games. >> tim: 24-3 since the allstar game. 24-3. >> kenny: how did they lose the three games? >> tim: i don't know. i know clayton kershaw lost one of them to the st. louis cardinals in a recent three-game stand. >> kenny: larry rothschild, the slow walk down to the mound. with 37,517 in attendance, we take a look around fenway park via the fox sports 1 fan cam.

fans around fenway excited about america's new sports network. fox sports 1, which debuted this morning. curt menefee brought the network on the air. ufc fight night tonight on fox sports 1 from td garden here in boston. what a weekend here in boston. >> tim: what a weekend. >> kenny: involving fox. pre-season football last night, yankees/red sox today. ufc fight night tonight. red sox leading the yankees 6-1. stephen drew, the run back in the fourth inning. two on, one out. carp and nava the base runners. >> tim: by the way, we mentioned clayton kershaw.

in about 16 minutes, he opposes the philadelphia phillies against kyle kendrick. phillies losing to greinke in last night's game, a shutout from the dodger right-hander. >> kenny: right field. vernon wells. two away. we talked about matt harvey the starting pitcher for the national league in the allstar game. some felt that clayton kershaw deserves a start. but he was very gracious. he said look, harvey is having a great season. i understand. >> tim: classy move by classy guy. clayton kershaw. with two away jarrod saltalamacchia who drove in a run his last time up. 6-1 lead for the red sox. you referenced it earlier,

they'll head out on a road trip. red sox play a night game here tomorrow. red sox stay home. sleep in their own beds and then leave at 10:00 monday morning and they have a game in san francisco that night. >> tim: just a murderous week for the red sox. time to get your body adjusted to play a game when you immediately get there. i was telling you about a couple of double-headers that were slated in a rather murderous two days back in 1978. on october 3rd and 4th, a sunday and then labor day, september 3rd and 4th of 1978, a scheduled doubleheader in san francisco. and then a scheduled doubleheader the next morning at 11:00 a.m. in st. louis. >> kenny: here's cano.

hitting comes to an end. giving new meaning to labor day weekend. >> tim: it certainly -- we certainly did labor those two days. >> kenny: four games in two days in two cities. ortiz goes deep. his 24th. 6-1 red sox.

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>> alan: time for the mustache and beard play like a champ profile. robinson cano, alfonso soriano back with the new york yankees. career as a second baseman and when the yankees made the

trade with texas prior to the 2004 season, as cano bounces one foul back behind first, you and i talked about this last week during a telecast from san francisco, a-rod to the yankees. soriano to the texas rangers. now, the yankees provided texas with a list of five other players. rangers were able to choose one of the five. cano was actually on that list. but texas went with joaquin arias to be -- >> tim: you have a lot of decisions to make as a general manager. we talked about ben cherington and cash man. sometimes they're wrong. that was -- everybody knows now, the wrong decision. you also look at how the course of baseball history would have

changed had aaron beau not played basketball during the off season. >> tim: isn't that the truth. has a knee problem. cano became a more paramount interest to the yankees. where is cano going to play next year, the dodgers? they're the new yankees. >> tim: became a red sox in 2004. >> kenny: broken bat. ground out to pedroia. we head upstairs to ken. >> ken: at this point, still late in the season, guys. it certainly lacks like robinson cano will hit the free agent market and the dynamics have changed since he was given an offer by the yankees in spring training. a big offer. we can talk about this more after the pitching change. >> kenny: we certainly will. as bres owe retires cano.

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>> kenny: right-hander, junichi tazawa has a scoreless hitting streak against the yankees dating back two seasons with one away here in the top of the eighth inning. he will face alfonso soriano, who is two for three today. now 15 for his last 21. it's the first time he comes to the plate, tim, in today's game without leading off an inning. >> tim: but still with nobody on. >> kenny: two singles for soriano today. facing tazawa for the first time and for more on robinson cano, we head to ken. >> ken: what has happened is the yankees, we can see them being

in somewhat of a decaying state. they might not represent as appealing a long-term option far cano as they once did. the other change and a big one is that he switched agents going from scott forest to a partnership of jay z and creative artist agency. if jay z wants to make a huge splash with him, you can have that opening for the dodgers or even another club. but the dodgers have obviously the biggest threat. they might choose, instead, to give extensions to clayton kershaw and hanley ramirez. they don't have unlimited money, but we have yet to see proof of that yet. they could trade an outfielder and maybe robby cano will be in l.a. next season. >> tim: both could be available, at least one of the two, not both. no way they get rid of puig.

yasiel puig, the sensational right fielder who put l.a. on its ear. arriving june 3rd and that's when the dodgers took off. more than coincidental. >> kenny: i read some quotes from cano's father jose who pitched briefly in the major leagues with the houston astros. >> tim: and the allstar games. >> kenny: that's right in the home run derby. >> tim: to robinson. >> kenny: his personal pitcher. jose cano said he would love robinson to stay with the yankees. it's an easy trip for him. >> tim: that's an interesting comment by ken rosenthal. the decaying state of the yankee farm system and the future for them. i think it bodes well for the dodgers offhand. dodgers with as much money as the yankees now.

and a brighter future, especially if they go to the world series this year. who is going to beat them. you never know in the first round, the 3 out of 5 or the 4 out of 7 in the lcs. the dodgers, i think, would be odds-on favorite if they continue to play anywhere like they have for the last two months. >> kenny: now 2-2.