NEW YORK _ Aroldis Chapman thrilled the sellout crowd at Yankee Stadium on Sunday night with multiple pitches above 100 mph in the ninth inning as he tried to save what would have been a gritty New York Yankees win over the Boston Red Sox.
Then rookie Rafael Devers turned around one of those fastballs, sending a 103-mph heater over the left-centerfield wall and into the Boston bullpen for a tying home run.
The Red Sox went on to beat the Yankees, 3-2, in 10 innings on Andrew Benintendi's RBI single off Tommy Kahnle. The run and the loss, however, were charged to Chapman, whom Joe Girardi kept in for the 10th even after his fourth blown save in 19 chances.
In the 10th, Chapman (4-2) recorded an out before hitting Jackie Bradley Jr. with a pitch and walking Eduardo Nunez.
Girardi called on Kahnle as Chapman walked off to boos. He walked Mookie Betts to load the bases before Benintendi lined the go-ahead single to right.
The Yankees failed to score in the bottom of the 10th against Craig Kimbrel, with Aaron Judge striking out for the second out. Judge, who fanned three times in four at-bats, has struck out in 30 consecutive games, two short of Adam Dunn's major-league record. He has struck out 51 times in 104 at-bats in that span.
The Yankees dropped to 5 1/2 games behind the AL East-leading Red Sox.
The score was tied at 1 until the eighth, when the Yankees scored the go-ahead run on Todd Frazier's sacrifice fly.
Red Sox starter Chris Sale allowed one run and four hits in seven innings, striking out 12. In three 2017 games against the Yankees, he is 0-1 with a 1.19 ERA and 35 strikeouts in 22 2/3 innings.
Overall, Sale is 14-4 with a 2.51 ERA, a 0.88 WHIP and 241 strikeouts in 168 1/3 innings.
Yankees starter Jordan Montgomery, who threw 5 1/3 innings and allowed one run, hadn't appeared in the big leagues since Aug. 5. On that date, Montgomery allowed one run in five innings in Cleveland but was removed after only 65 pitches by Girardi. The score was tied at 1 at the time and Montgomery was cruising, but Girardi wanted to go to his deep bullpen. The Yankees went on to a 2-1 win.
A day later, Montgomery was sent to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre because the Yankees had too many starting pitchers after the trades for Jaime Garcia and Sonny Gray.
He never threw a pitch for Scranton, though. CC Sabathia went on the disabled list with a knee injury. Masahiro Tanaka went on the DL with shoulder inflammation. Suddenly, the Yankees didn't have enough starters. Montgomery was back.
On Saturday, Montgomery was signing autographs down the rightfield line during Boston's batting practice when he was hit in the head by a foul ball. Fortunately, he was not seriously injured, and he took the ball Sunday night against Sale, the AL Cy Young favorite.
The Red Sox took a 1-0 lead in the fifth. Brock Holt walked with one out, advanced on a wild pitch and scored on Bradley's two-out single.
Chase Headley lined a one-out single in the bottom of the inning, and one out later, Austin Romine hit a drive to the wall in right. Betts, who might be the best defensive rightfielder in baseball, had the ball in his sights, but it hit off his glove at the top of the wall and bounced away. Romine had his first career triple and the score was tied.
