Turner welcomes Yanks to Fenway with 2-run HR, grand slam

BOSTON — Justin Turner has primarily blended in throughout his first season with the Red Sox, grinding out each at-bat and getting his share of key hits whereas offering the management everybody anticipated within the dugout and clubhouse.

But on Friday evening, the red-bearded veteran jumped to the forefront of baseball’s most storied rivalry with an emphatic show of offense by which he compiled a double, a two-run homer and a grand slam within the first three innings of an eventual 15-5 rout over the Yankees at Fenway Park.

It was fairly a show, notably for a Boston staff that had been scuffling for runs and wins of late.

However, the hitting heroics by the 35-35 Red Sox have been dampened when beginning pitcher Tanner Houck received belted beneath the correct eye on a line drive by Yankees catcher Kyle Higashioka to begin the fifth inning. Houck exited underneath his personal energy. The preliminary analysis is that Houck has a facial contusion.

When Houck departed, the Red Sox held a 13-1 lead, due to the harm finished by Turner and Co. In a six-game stretch from June 7-12, the Red Sox didn’t rating greater than a run in a single inning.

On Friday, they busted out of the gate with 4 straight multi-run innings, with Turner in the course of most of it.

Fittingly, Turner had the primary hit of the evening for the Red Sox, a double to left that helped arrange Masataka Yoshida’s two-run double off the Monster.

An inning later, the Sox got here again for 2 extra runs, each approaching Turner’s two-run shot into the primary row of the Monster Seats. In the third, Turner unloaded for an imposing grand slam that hit the highest of the again wall behind the bleachers in middle, a Statcast-projected bolt of 429 ft.