BOSTON -- Make contact and good things will happen. Red Sox manager Alex Cora has preached that since Spring Training, and it materialized in a big way on Saturday night.\n\nThis was a game in which the Sox -- at least from an offensive standpoint -- simply scratched and clawed their way to a 4-2 victory against the Yankees in front of another packed house of 36,857 at Fenway Park.\n\n• Box score\n\n“We got enough today,” said Cora. “When we score four, we’re really good, so we should shoot for four every night.”\n\nThe Red Sox are 41-4 when they score four runs or more this season and 5-27 when they don’t.\n\nHow did the four runs score? On three sacrifice flies and an infield hit -- one of three that Hunter Renfroe had on the night. Overall, Boston had five infield hits.
To some managers, that might seem like winning ugly. To Cora, it was beautiful.\n\n“Did a good job putting the ball in play. We had traffic early on, a lot of traffic,” said Cora. “We hit some balls hard. We got lucky on a few of them, but we ran the bases well, and we put pressure on them.”\n\nThe second sacrifice fly was a true work of art, hit all of 152 feet by Bobby Dalbec and caught in foul territory by first baseman Luke Voit.\n\nYou can bet that Voit never envisioned
The gritty offense was just one element to this highly-satisfying win that pushed the Red Sox to 5-0 against their forever rivals this season, a monumental improvement from last year’s 1-9 mark.\n\nNate was great
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