The Red Sox defeated the Yankees 4-3 in the fourth game of the ALDS and qualified for the ALCS

Match 4 of the American League division series was a tense affair with an even tighter end – the Yankees were down 4-1, and they made it real, really terrifying for the Red Sox and their fans in the end, and gave their own fans all the hope in the world. This was not the case, however, and the Red Sox held up. They will now move to the American League series against the Houston Astros, which start Saturday in Boston.

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Red Sox vs. Yankees ALDS Match 4 Live Score

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9th round: Aroldis Chapman is on the mound, trying to keep the Red Sox's lead at 4-1. He will face the heart of the Boston order and it starts well by forcing Pearce to fly to the right. J.D. Martinez continues with the ground on the next throw, which brings Bogaerts with two tries.

Bogaerts shows a little more patience and counts 3-2 against Chapman. He begins to look, however, and we are at the bottom of the ninth: the last chance of the Yankees to come back and keep the series alive. They will have to do it against Kimbrel and they will send Judge, Gregorius and Stanton to the plate. It's definitely the guys you want in this situation.

Kimbrel begins by missing with a few corners and a fastball and he walks Judge on four courses. Here is Gregorius with a runner. And he chooses, placing the judge in the scoring position. Here is Giancarlo Stanton with a great story hanging from his head.

Stanton did not have a very good playoff series, his first. It is the great acquisition of the off season. This is the moment when he can make everyone forget everything he said about him, his True Yankee ™ initiation.

A strike called and an oscillating strike open the bat. Kimbrel makes a quick pass with a fast ball, 1-2. Stanton sways down on a low ground and out of the area. A little lower, here is Luke Voit with two runners again. Voit is also able to go deep – this range may have been silent most of the evening, but it remains dangerous and endless.

Kimbrel has up to 15 lengths, and Voit is ahead in the 3-0 account. Kimbrel just misses out with a fastball at 99 mph, and Voit loads the basics with a walk. Neil Walker is now standing, which is the victory.

The Yankees use Adeiny Hechavarria as the best choice for Voit. Kimbrel then strikes Walker with a pitch, and the score is 4-2. Gary Sánchez arrives, the bases still loaded. Kimbrel makes him swing at the first and second launches, but Sánchez restrains himself in the third pitch and Vazquez blocks him well enough to earn praise from the stand.

It's now 2-2 after a foul and another ball: Kimbrel has 22 shots. 23 locations, and the count is complete. Sánchez hits a huge ball on the alert track in the right field. It's almost a bag. He almost won the game, but the Yankees lost only one goal and rookie sensation Gleyber Torres has the opportunity to catch up with him. or win it for the Yankees.

The Yankees are in their last game. Torres takes the balloon one. The runners on the first and second, the score is 4-3. Kimbrel goes 96 mph, and it's a 1-1 account. Torres goes through the second shot, and Boston is at a stroke of the advance to the ALCS – the Yankees no longer stop.

Núñez, who may have been the first to finish at the end of the match and the series – there is a challenge in the field. The call on the ground is secure, but let's see what the video says. The first appearances show that it was an exit, as it was called on the ground, but nothing is official yet, it is the angle that the TV had to provide.

It's an exit! The Red Sox will win 4-3 and qualify for the American League Championship Series to face the Houston Astros in last year's ALDS rematch.

8th round: Chris Sale is getting ready or the Red Sox, probably to start the eighth inning. That makes sense: Dirty would start the fifth game if there was one, and he would also be the starter of the first game in the ALCS if Boston won the fourth match. Offering him a sleeve or even a sleeve to get to Kimbrel does not interrupt any of this.

That's Kinsler, Núñez and Bradley topping the eighth. Kinsler has only started on four courts, which leaves Sale little time to warm up. Betances goes up and arrives on Núñez – it was not supposed to go there, but he pulled a little bit of Matrix shit to avoid it, anyway.

Núñez followed the alert with a brace in the left corner of the field, giving Boston a runner in late goal. Bradley agrees with Voit, but he can not fix it, and JBJ is safe at first. Núñez passes in third place. That's the double for Vazquez, who hit a circuit earlier. This is my way of saying that we should not expect anything here against Betances from the backstop.

Bradley flies on the pitch 0-2, placing a second runner in goal position. It's a double for Vazquez, with a withdrawal and the top of the order ahead. Here's another mound tour between Betances and Sánchez – they can not seem to be on the same page here. The visit paid! Betances lets a breakout ball come out in the strike zone, and Vazquez has an embarrassing but understandable breath.

Betts is intentionally hired to charge the Benintendi bases, allowing the Yankees to recover their strength on each base and allowing them to avoid facing MVP's potential.

It works, but it also worked in part because Angel Hernandez has just called a low, outdoor shot. All we asked for was consistency, Angel.

This is a 4-1 win, Red Sox, and Chris Sale is the last one to cross the Kimbrel Bridge. He will face Torres, Gardner and the top of the order, Hicks. Kimbrel is already warming up. I imagine he will try to make more than three stops if necessary, but Sale's idea is to try to make sure that does not happen.

Torres flew to the center-right alert lane, bringing Andrew McCutchen to the Gardner Square. The Yankees have five outs remaining in their season, with the exception of a few points here. Some races they are very capable of marking, whether Sale or Kimbrel on the mound.

It's not for McCutchen, as he says to Núñez. I completely understand the Yankees' plan to "attack Núñez until he goes down". Hicks strikes on three courts, and the bridge to Kimbrel is over. The Yankees have three outs and the Red Sox are 4-1.

7th round: Robertson remains in the game, which is not a surprise, since it took him a dozen shots to pass the last round of Sox. He makes Benintendi 0-2 fall in a hurry. Dellin Betances is warming up, though, probably for the eighth. Benintendi will swing.

Pearce is still in the game, even after Sabathia, given Moreland's thigh injury. It takes eight pitches, but he tries a hit in check. Ryan Brasier warms up in the Boston office. We do not know if Barnes will come back and if Brasier will take over, or if Brasier will start from scratch.

Martinez works hard and Robertson has 29 shots. This could be the last hitter for him, out or not. Martinez goes first to a free pass, and I was right: Boone is now heading for the mound to pull out Robertson for Betances. Robertson's beautiful appearance, however: he pulled out four hitters and five outs.

Betances had another fantastic season in relief, but this time he finished much stronger. It has been used extensively in the playoffs. He will face Bogaerts with two outs and Martinez first. A throw goes to the bottom and Martinez is placed in goal position.

It does not matter, because Bogaerts is right to be short. The Yankees will take Voit, Walker and Sánchez to the plate to try to reduce that lead by 4-1, and they will do it against Ryan Brasier, not Matt Barnes.

Seeks Forge to make seven throws, but ends up flying to Betts up to the wall in a vacant lot. Neil Walker is next in the line to hit a fake ball that seemed to have a chance to be a homer. Walker stands out and here it is: the game you've been waiting for. Brasier vs. Sánchez, the guy Brasier said to come back in "the fucking [batters] "The last time they clashed, then scratched." A revenge match here would certainly galvanize the Yankees and their supporters in this stadium, who hate Far more than a week ago.

Sánchez returns this time, however, so as in the second match, he will have to take revenge on Brasier against another pitcher of the Red Sox. He is 4-1, Red Sox, after six.

6th round: David Robertson entered the game instead of Britton. He will face the rest of the bottom of Boston's command. Porcello could also have finished for the night, as it is not in his usual place, and Barnes is back in the paddock. Bradley gets ready for the first outing, while Vazquez hurries to watch.

Ron Darling, one of the match 4 announcers, said he would push Porcello another round, considering Bullpen's problems. While I fully understood this reasoning, Porcello left several balls suspended during the last run and started to miss his points. He just got out of the way at the bottom of the New York order: do not try your luck against Judge Gregorius and Stanton seems quite defensible. Robertson hits Betts and that's the goal of the round.

It will indeed be Barnes on the mound to face Judge and Co. in the lower half of the sixth inning. The judge counts a lot, because Barnes does not take it after him and the judge has a good eye. The judge makes a stop after swinging the number four ball on the previous court.

Gregorius arrives at the mound and Núñez catches him because the pitchers are weird. Stanton is right, and Barnes' first round of work is a blank 1-2-3. He is still 4-1, Boston.

5th round: Britton is back for the top of the fifth inning and will face J.D. Martinez first. Martinez has six attack lengths here and Britton has 20 shots – no one is warming up for the Yankees, but we thought they would get up soon. Martinez ends up going astray in front of Gregorius.

Britton may have cost an outing to the Yankees – perhaps – because he deflected a bouncing ball into play, which gave Bogaerts time to get to the start. The game might not have been played even without the deviation: if Britton could not play cleanly, it was probably a simple one anyway.

Kinsler gets in motion and the action takes place in the New York Enclosure. They will not need it in the fifth inning, Britton finishing at the top of the table with a flight going to the right.

It will be Walker, Sánchez and Torres this round against Porcello. Walker flies in the center, almost right to Bradley. Sánchez almost hit a circuit left on the first pitch of the attack, a slider that was suspended just a little too long. He ends up having a double, so he is in a position to score with one for out for Torres.

Torres makes a full count, then a single on a ball that does not want to crumble, and Sánchez is also on the third goal. The Yankees rallied here with one on the fifth. Matt Barnes warms up – Alex Cora is not going to take a risk here, apparently, despite the fact that Porcello made only 56 shots.

Gardner is 0-in-8 in the playoffs, but he picks up a flying bag here to reduce the lead to three. It's 4-1, Boston, and the Yankees still have a runner. The top of the order is now at the rendezvous. Hicks just failed to reduce to one with a sheath slotted on a fast ball, but it became a foul. The count is 0-2, but Porcello has missed his places since the start of the round and the Yankees have almost dominated twice because of that.

Hicks commits a foul on the third field – this one was in place, maybe to push him back a bit. And here's a fourth foul – Hicks pushed Porcello's throwing number to 64 after making a full count in the eighth offering of that plate.

Hicks sends him into the right field, low enough for Kinsler to catch him, and Porcello limits the damage to one point while avoiding a situation in which Judge puts two runners at the base. This is 4-1 Red Sox after five.

4th round: Sabathia is indeed offside and Britton takes his place on the knoll. Britton has actually started more for the Yankees than for the Orioles this year, despite being in a mid-season, thanks to an injury to Achilles that kept him on the disabled list to start the year .

Vazquez, the first hitter Britton faces, scores a home run to win the field match in front of the close. It's 4-0 Red Sox because a guy who hit three homers this year went deep into things. The post-season is weird.

As I was saying about the extraordinary post-season, Britton continued this Vazquez momentum by eliminating Betts, who could win the MVP title, and Benintendi, who was not good at Betts in 2018 but who stays very good. Baseball! Britton gets out of the way thanks to Gregorius' superb defense. It's 4-0, Red Sox.

It's good to remember that the Yankees set a new home run record for one season in 2018 with a 4-0 lead in Boston. If you consider that Porcello has given 1.3 points out of nine – 27 in 193 innings – this seems even more relevant. No tracks are safe in this park, neither of the two teams.

Porcello is guarding Judge in the park this time around, however, getting a fly shot right. Gregorius finds a hole in the Boston field and gets a double to put a runner in a goal for Stanton. The slugger scores and breaks his bat, but he moves Gregorius to the third goal for Voit.

Núñez manages another scorer in third place, and he is still 4-0 Sox. Porcello shot four goals without scoring, but perhaps more importantly, he used only 40 pitches to do so. The Red Sox struggling to get closer to Craig Kimbrel, a long start Porcello could win or cancel the match 4 for Boston.

3rd round: The third round begins with Sabathia diving Benintendi in the arm on a cutter that has not cut, so the Red Sox have a runner in mind for Pearce. Pearce is 2-2, pushing Sabathia to 41 after a few fouls.

Pearce ends up dropping another single in front of Hicks in the middle, and this one takes Benintendi to third. No outs, and here is J.D. Martinez with two. Martinez hits the ball in the middle, almost on the alert track, and it's a long pass to get to 1-0, the Red Sox. Pearce stayed on the first goal, so one at a time, one on Bogaerts.

There is no one warming in the Yankees' paddock, despite the deep fly balloons and the number of Sabathia throws approaching 50.

Bogaerts is 3-2 on Sabathia's pitch 50. Bogaerts strikes a soft goal on the knoll, but far enough away from the goal that there is no chance of getting Pearce in second place: Bogaerts is absent and there are two losses for Kinsler with a runner in goal position. And now, Pearce is in third base, because of a bad pitch.

David Robertson is now warming up in the Yankees office, so Boone listened to this fan.

Kinsler is showing a little more patience this time around because he's 2-0 down. He got the field he wanted on a score of 2-1, this one over Gardner's head, and it's 2-0 in Boston thanks to a double RBI.

And now it's 3-0 Red Sox, while Núñez hits a single for which Kinsler returns home. Spike Lee is present and he called the manager, but Boone does not listen. Bradley Jr. is opposed to Sabathia and it is hard to blame Boone for this precise hitter: he is not very good against left-handed pitchers. And he continues on this path by freeing himself here. The damage is however caused and it is the 3-0 victory of the Red Sox as we move down the third third.

Zach Britton is also warming up in the Yankees' market, so Boone's chances of pushing Sabathia to fourth place seem non-existent. Porcello has three lead lengths to play, which he will likely need, given the combined circuit problems as well as the problems the Yankees do not have. Gleyber Torres leads to New York here in the third.

Torres strikes the ball in what should have been left in the center-left, but Beninty managed to get it just in time to take the advantage. Say what you want about Jackie Bradley Jr.'s incoherent stick, but the Red Sox with three players in the center helps them defend themselves.

Gardner stands out for the second outing, which brings Hicks to the top of the list. Hicks appears in the Núñez stop-stop zone during the shift, and this is the third. It's 3-0 Red Sox after three full in New York.

2nd round: Sabathia is back on the hill. He made 21 shots first despite all the downs, and Eduardo Núñez just helped him by making a turn on the first. One down.

Sabathia has to work a little harder to get Jackie Bradley Jr., but JBJ strikes in the end. That brings the number nine hitter, Christian Vazquez. The 27-year-old is definitely not in training for his bat, and although he is not a regular receiver of Porcello, Alex Cora is working on it tonight. Hey, it's not like Sandy León was still there for his racket. Vazquez works on foot and Sox's range is back at Betts.

Sabathia's score is 0-2, then fires a low shot in the area where Betts must hit – he hits a harmless fly, and Sabathia is through two scoreless frames.

Giancarlo Stanton has to face Porcello in the lower half of the second. Núñez barely manages to put Stanton on a slow roll thanks to the gearshift, but he makes a good run this time, and Stanton is absent.

Luke also sees Núñez, but the next hitter, Neil Walker, strikes in the straight for a singles for the Yankees' first scorer in Match 4. That brings receiver Gary Sánchez, who did not have a lot of success this season. but made them count in the second game to help the Yankees win. Sánchez is also enlightened and it is the end of the second. We are still 0-0 in New York.

1st round: CC Sabathia has made 29 starts and 153 launches this year: this is not one that the Yankees are trying to push deeply. And with their pens, they do not have to push it either. Keeping this in mind, Sabathia could be removed early if it is not malignant or has problems, and the pen will go from there. Tonight is the last game of the season or the day before a rest day. The bullpen can handle this workload.

Sabathia will face Mookie Betts, Andrew Benintendi and Steve Pearce to start the match.

If you're wondering why Pearce qualifies third, it's because Sabathia is left-handed: Pearce would play this game even though Mitch Moreland was not healing an injury suffered in Match 2, as brewing left-handed was what he had been acquired first place.

Mookie Betts gets things done. Benintendi is initially deprived on his ground, even if Sabathia did not run to cover himself: it was neither forgetfulness nor laziness, it is that Sabathia can not beat Benintendi in a running with his knees. Voit arrived at the first in time, however, so two down.

Pearce does what he is for him and gets the first hit of the game on a single in the center. By the way, he hit Aaron Hicks, who is making his comeback in Yankees training for the first time since he's hurt the hamstring in the first game.

J.D. Martinez has just received a love stroke, so we are already in the category of "things you did not expect to see" in this game. The change kept this part of the inner field open, and no one could get there in time. Give, take away, and so on. Here is the short stop Xander Bogaerts.

Angel Hernandez is behind the plate tonight. I mention it because he missed what looked like a shot in the upper part of the area and what looked a lot like a hit earlier. As long as his bad zone is consistent, everyone can work with it! It's the inconsistency that ruins everyone and their good times.

Bogaerts is walking on a very far field and the bases are loaded for Ian Kinsler, who starts in second place despite the Brock Holt cycle on Monday. The Red Sox play these squad matches. Kinsler plays in the first field, on the warning track almost in fault territory, but Brett Gardner took him away. The Yankees escape the opportunity for Boston to have fun with two goals to 0-0 to be down the first goal.

It will be Aarons Hicks and Judge, followed by Didi Gregorius, against Rick Porcello. Hicks also sends one on the alert track, but Jackie Bradley stands under it just in front of the barrier in the center.

The judge follows with a much calmer exit, it on the field, but it counts the same thing in the boxscore. Gregorius strikes a fast ball away from him and the Yankees slump 1-2-3 in the first.