| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 14 | 1 |
| NY Yankees | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | X | 15 | 16 | 0 |
Orbiting NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman threw out the ceremonial first pitch on Wednesday night for a game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. The Parsippany, NJ, native and a lifelong Yankees fan threw the pitch while orbiting aboard the International Space Station.
Reisman’s fastball must have done some good. The Yankees improved to 9-7 on the year by beating their archrivals from Beantown in a 15-9 slugfest in the Bronx. The 774th Yankee Stadium meeting between the two teams featured Alex Rodriguez’s 522nd home run, moving the Yankee slugger into 15th place on the all-time list ahead of Ted Williams and Willie McCovey.
Boston scored six runs in the fifth inning to pull ahead 9-7, but the Yankees came right back in the bottom of the inning with four runs of their own. The Bronx Bombers added four more runs in the eight inning to close out the scoring.
The New York Post reports that Reisman carried dirt from the Yankee Stadium pitcher’s mound, a Yankees banner, and a hat autographed by Yankees principal owner George M. Steinbrenner to ISS last month.
“Launching on the space shuttle and living aboard the International Space Station is a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” Reisman said. “But as a lifelong Yankees fan, throwing out the first pitch at a Yankees-Red Sox game is also a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”
