BOSTON (AP) — Carlos Narváez hit a walk-off RBI single off the wall in the 10th inning after Aaron Judge hit a tying solo home run in the ninth and the Boston Red Sox rallied to beat the New York Yankees 2-1 on Friday night.
Ceddanne Rafaela added an RBI.
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New York Yankees third baseman Oswald Peraza throws to first base, but the throw is too late to get the Boston Red Sox's Romy Gonzalez (not pictured) in the third inning of a baseball game Friday, June 13, 2025, in Boston. (AP/Photo/Jim Davis)
The Boston Red Sox's Ceddanne Rafaela (3) is tagged out by New York Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe, center, as he is caught stealing second base during a baseball game Friday, June 13, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Jim Davis)
Boston Red Sox shortstop Trevor Story throws out New York Yankees' Ben Rice at first base in the first inning of a baseball game Friday, June 13, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Jim Davis)
Boston Red Sox pitcher Garrett Crochet winds up during a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Friday, June 13, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Jim Davis)
New York Yankees' Aaron Judge takes a swinging strike during the first inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Friday, June 13, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Jim Davis)
Boston has now won its last three against its longtime rivals. The loss snaps a three-game overall win streak for New York, which came in off a sweep of Kansas City last week.
Jarren Duran grounded out to open the 10th, moving automatic runner David Hamilton to third. Reliever Tim Hill (3-2) then walked Rafael Devers. After a strikeout, Narváez came to the plate.
Garrett Whitlock (5-0) pitched a scoreless 10th to salvage a master performance by Boston starter Garrett Crochet, who pitched a career-high 8 1/3 innings, yielding four hits and striking out seven.
Crochet gave up just three of those hits over eight innings, striking out Judge each of the first three times he faced him.
His luck ran out the fourth time when Judge unloaded on Crochet’s seventh pitch of the at-bat — a 99.6 mph fastball — belting it 443 feet over the Green Monster.
Crochet was replaced by Aroldis Chapman, who got the final two outs of the inning.
Yankees starter Ryan Yarbrough gave up four hits over 4 2/3 innings, walked three and struck out three.
With two outs in the 10th , Yankees manager Aaron Boone challenged a foul ball call on a grounder by DJ LaMahieu down the first baseline. A review determined it to be foul. Boone came out to argue and was ejected.
Judge is now 1 for 7 with six strikeouts against Crochet this season.
LHP Carlos Rodón (8-4, 2.87 ERA) took the loss in the finale of last week’s series against the Red Sox. RHP Hunter Dobbins (3-1, 4.20) has won each of his last three starts.
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New York Yankees third baseman Oswald Peraza throws to first base, but the throw is too late to get the Boston Red Sox's Romy Gonzalez (not pictured) in the third inning of a baseball game Friday, June 13, 2025, in Boston. (AP/Photo/Jim Davis)
The Boston Red Sox's Ceddanne Rafaela (3) is tagged out by New York Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe, center, as he is caught stealing second base during a baseball game Friday, June 13, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Jim Davis)
Boston Red Sox shortstop Trevor Story throws out New York Yankees' Ben Rice at first base in the first inning of a baseball game Friday, June 13, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Jim Davis)
Boston Red Sox pitcher Garrett Crochet winds up during a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Friday, June 13, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Jim Davis)
New York Yankees' Aaron Judge takes a swinging strike during the first inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Friday, June 13, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Jim Davis)
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are ticking higher Friday following a mixed report on the U.S. job market, one that may delay another cut to interest rates by the Federal Reserve but does not slam the door on it.
The S&P 500 rose 0.5% in morning trading and was on track to top its all-time high set earlier in the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 182 points, or 0.4%, as of 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.6% higher.
The quiet trading came after the U.S. Labor Department said employers hired fewer workers in total during December than economists expected, though the unemployment rate improved and was better than expected. It reinforced how the U.S. job market may be in a “ low-hire, low-fire” state.
The improvement in the unemployment rate was enough to get traders to ratchet back expectations for a cut to interest rates at the Fed's next meeting, which is scheduled for later this month. Traders are now forecasting just a 5% chance of that, down from 11% a day before, according to data from CME Group.
But traders nevertheless still largely expect the Fed to cut rates at least twice this upcoming year. Whether they’re correct carries high stakes for financial markets. Lower interest rates can goose the economy and push up prices for investments, though they can also worsen inflation at the same time. And inflation has stubbornly remained above the Fed's 2% target.
“Until the data provide a clearer direction, a divided Fed is likely to stay that way,” according to Ellen Zentner, chief economic strategist for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. “Lower rates are likely coming this year, but the markets may have to be patient.”
After the report, Treasury yields were mixed in the bond market. The yield on the 10-year Treasury eased to 4.17% from 4.19% late Thursday. It tends to track expectations for longer-term economic growth and inflation.
The two-year Treasury yield, which more closely tracks forecasts for what the Fed will do with short-term interest rates in the near term, ticked up to 3.51% from 3.49%.
A separate report released Friday morning suggested sentiment among U.S. consumers is strengthening, particularly among lower-income households. Perhaps more importantly for the Fed, the preliminary report from the University of Michigan also said expectations for inflation in the coming 12 months may be at their lowest level in a year. That could prevent a vicious cycle where worsening expectations lead to behaviors that accelerate inflation further.
On Wall Street, power company Vistra soared 14% to help lead the market after signing a 20-year deal to provide electricity to Meta Platforms from three of its nuclear plants. Big Tech companies have been signing a string of such deals to electrify the data centers powering their moves into artificial-intelligence technology.
Oklo jumped 15.2% after saying it also signed a deal with Meta Platforms that will help it secure nuclear fuel and advance its project to build a facility in Pike County, Ohio.
They helped offset a 3.6% drop for General Motors. The auto giant said it will take a $6 billion hit to its results for the last three months of 2025 related to its pullback from electric vehicles. That’s on top of the $1.6 billion in charges GM took in the prior quarter. Fewer tax incentives and easier fuel-emission regulations have been eating into demand for EVs.
WD-40 tumbled 7.3% after reporting a weaker profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. Chief Financial Officer Sara Hyzer said the soft numbers were primarily because of timing issues, not weaker demand from end customers, and the company stood by its financial forecasts for the upcoming year.
In stock markets abroad, indexes rose across much of Europe and Asia.
The French CAC 40 rose 1%, and Japan’s Nikkei 225 jumped 1.6% for two of the world’s bigger gains. In Tokyo, Fast Retailing, the fashion company behind Uniqlo, jumped 10.6% after its quarterly operating profit surged about 34% year-on-year. It revised its full-year forecasts upward.
AP Business Writers Chan Ho-him and Matt Ott contributed.
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