{"id":3676,"date":"2026-06-27T05:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2026-06-27T05:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:03:41","slug":"phenomenal-payton-tolle-takes-perfect-game-into-sixth-as-red-sox-beat-yankees-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3676","title":{"rendered":"Phenomenal Payton Tolle takes perfect game into sixth as Red Sox beat Yankees again"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>As bleak as the first half of the 2026 season has been for the Red Sox, it has featured radiant exceptions. Payton Tolle has been foremost among them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3674\">Four current or future Hockey East players selected in first round of NHL Draft<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The mountainous lefthander increasingly looks like a present and future fixture of the rotation. On Friday night at Fenway Park against the Yankees, he delivered the most impressive outing of his career in a 6-1 win, the team\u2019s second straight victory against the American League East leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tolle delivered seven shutout innings \u2014 the longest scoreless outing of his career \u2014 while permitting just one hit. The performance was more impressive given its context: Tolle was bedridden for most of Thursday and Friday with illness.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>\u201cI woke up [Friday] morning, I was like, \u2018I don\u2019t feel great, but I\u2019m going to pitch today,\u2019 \u201d said Tolle. \u201cThere were a couple of times where I was like, \u2018Do I tell anybody?\u2019 . . . [The outing] was a grinder one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span>Illness zapped Tolle\u2019s typical zip. His four-seam fastball averaged 94.4 miles per hour \u2014 the lowest velocity of any start of his career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So, rather than leaning solely on his typical hard\/harder\/hardest arsenal of four-seamers, sinkers, and cutters, Tolle focused more on precision and unbalancing hitters with flail-inducing two-strike curveballs. Of his seven strikeouts, three came on hooks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The result: Artful dominance pointing to a deepening reservoir of skills. The lefthander carved the Yankees lineup with surgical precision and efficiency. He retired the first 16 batters, carrying a perfect game into the sixth inning before allowing a one-out single to shallow left by Spencer Jones on a cutter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Was there a point when he contemplated perfection?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWay too early,\u201d Tolle smirked. \u201cI might have thought about it in the third inning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span> Red Sox place Marcelo Mayer on injured list with stress reaction in his forearm<\/div>\n<p><span>Tolle didn\u2019t get into a three-ball count until fatiguing in the seventh, when he issued back-to-back two-out walks. But with the Yankees amid their only rally against him, Tolle got Jazz Chisholm Jr. to fly to the warning track in center. He pumped his fist, then sauntered off the mound to a roaring salute from the (non-sellout) crowd of 33,353.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt was a slow walk in, just because I wanted to look up and take it in,\u201d said Tolle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At 23 years and 237 days, Tolle (4-5, 2.78 ERA) became the youngest Sox pitcher to log at least seven shutout innings since Eduardo Rodriguez on Sept. 4, 2016. He also extended the streak of quality starts by the Sox rotation to nine games, the longest run for the team since Aug. 21-31, 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Sox mounted a steady offensive attack against Yankees starter Will Warren to give Tolle plenty of cushion. Wilyer Abreu tagged a first-inning triple to center and scored on a Willson Contreras RBI single for a 1-0 lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3672\">GM Don Sweeney wanted to add scoring talent, so the Bruins swung a pricey deal for winger JJ Peterka<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The Sox stretched the lead to 3-0 in the second, a small-ball rally including Caleb Durbin\u2019s bunt single and a run-scoring fielder\u2019s choice by Friday callup Tsung-Che Cheng, the first RBI of the infielder\u2019s career. Cheng later stung a double to center for his first big-league hit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI waited for this for a year,\u201d said Cheng, who went 0 for 7 over a three-game big league debut with the Pirates last April. \u201cIt finally showed up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Contreras launched a solo homer, his 17th, onto Lansdowne Street on a hanging sweeper from Warren to make it 4-0 in the third. <\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span>The 418-foot blast hung over the subsequent innings. When Contreras batted in the fifth, one of Warren\u2019s pitches to the first baseman was letter high and inside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Contreras concluded Warren was sending a message, and on his way to first after being walked, conveyed verbal displeasure with the pitcher\u2019s non-verbal communiqu\u00e9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPart of the game,\u201d Contreras shrugged of the disagreement. \u201cMaybe people can look at it in different ways. I looked at it one way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>After once pitching in a Red Sox uniform at Fenway Park, Cam Schlittler\u2019s one that got away \u2014 to the Yankees<\/div>\n<p><span>Warren didn\u2019t share the viewpoint, barking a retort. The conversation became animated, prompting the benches and bullpens of both teams to empty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Temperatures quickly cooled without an altercation. As the crowd on the infield dispersed, Yankees catcher Ali S\u00e1nchez even hugged Contreras. Carlton Fisk and Thurman Munson this was not. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEverybody went out there and stood around, had a picnic, then came back in,\u201d mused interim Sox manager Chad Tracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Calm prevailed, and so did the Sox. The Yankees scrounged a run against the Sox bullpen in the eighth to avoid the ignominy of a shutout, but the Sox offense remained pesky, plating six runs for a third-straight night \u2014 tied for the team\u2019s longest such streak this year \u2014 while cruising to a second straight home victory. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3670\">Norway pulls its starters, treats fans to an exhibition match in loss to France in Group I finale<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rookie lefthander took a perfect game into the sixth inning despite averaging the lowest velocity on his four-seamer of any start in his career. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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