Hunter Dobbins beats Yankees for second time this week as Red Sox top rival New York, 4-3

BOSTON (AP) — Hunter Dobbins pitched six shutout innings to beat the Yankees for the second time in a week, and the Boston Red Sox won their fourth straight game on Saturday night, 4-3 over New York.

A week after saying he’d rather retire than pitch for the Yankees because his father was drafted by New York twice before being traded — and then having to defend his dad’s story midweek — Dobbins (4-1) struck out five and gave up two singles.

Dobbins earned the victory against the Yankees last Sunday, too, when he worked five innings and allowed three runs, two on a first-inning, two-run homer by Aaron Judge.

Judge went 0 for 4 with three strikeouts on Saturday, dropping his major league leading average from .390 to .384.

Greg Weissert got the final three outs for his second save despite giving up a run. Austin Wells flew out to the track in center with two runners on.

Carlos Rodón (8-5), who entered 7-1 with a 1.90 ERA in his previous 10 starts, gave up four runs (three earned) on seven hits in five-plus innings.

Boston grabbed a 1-0 lead on Anthony Volpe’s throwing error in the first that allowed Rob Refsnyder to score on Carlos Narváez’s infield hit. Trevor Story had an RBI double in the fourth and Romy Gonzalez added one in the fifth.

Jasson Domínguez and Wells had consecutive RBI singles in the seventh for the Yankees.

The Yankees were down by two runs and had two runners on with Judge looming on deck in the seventh when Red Sox catcher Narváez, who had a walk-off hit in the series opener against his former team, picked Domínguez off second to end the inning.

Boston has won four of five against the Yankees this season.

Yankees LHP Max Fried (9-1, 1.84 ERA) is slated to face Red Sox RHP Brayan Bello (2-1, 3.96) in the series finale on Sunday.

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Boston Red Sox's Rob Refsnyder, right, slides out at second as New York Yankees second baseman DJ LeMahieu, left, throws to first to complete a double play in the third inning of a baseball game, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Boston Red Sox's Romy Gonzalez hits a one-run double, allowing Kristian Campbell to score, in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Boston Red Sox's Trevor Story, right, scores near New York Yankees catcher Austin Wells, left, on a sacrifice fly by Marcelo Mayer in the sixth inning of a baseball game, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

New York Yankees' Carlos Rodón delivers a pitch to a Boston Red Sox batter in the first inning of a baseball game, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Boston Red Sox's Hunter Dobbins delivers a pitch to a New York Yankees batter in the first inning of a baseball game, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

MUMBAI, India (AP) — Shreyas Iyer was provisionally named in India’s squad on Saturday for the home one-day international series against New Zealand starting Jan. 11.

India will host the Black Caps in a white-ball engagement — three ODIs and five T20s — in the build-up to the 2026 T20 World Cup.

Iyer returns to the international fold after sustaining a spleen injury during an ODI against Australia in Sydney last October.

His selection is subject to fitness clearance from BCCI’s medical team and he will return as India’s vice-captain for the three-match series.

Skipper Shubman Gill also returns, after he missed the ODI series against South Africa in December. He had a neck spasm in the test series earlier, and subsequently played in the T20s against the Proteas.

Ruturaj Gaikwad and Tilak Verma missed out. Gaikwad had scored a maiden ODI hundred against South Africa in Visakhapatnam.

Rishabh Pant is retained as second keeper-batter behind Lokesh Rahul, who had stood in as captain against the Proteas.

Star batters Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma had both participated in the domestic List A tournament — Vijay Hazare Trophy — and return to the international stage for the ODIs.

All-rounder Hardik Pandya is fit, but not sufficiently enough to bowl 10 overs in an ODI. Thus, he has been rested further ahead of the 2026 T20 World Cup (in India and Sri Lanka) starting Feb. 7. Nitish Kumar Reddy is included in the squad.

Pacer Mohammed Siraj returns to lead the bowling lineup with Jasprit Bumrah rested again. Siraj had missed the South Africa series because of workload management.

The three ODIs will be played in Vadodara (Jan. 11), Rajkot (Jan. 14) and Indore (Jan. 18), with the five-match T20 series starting Jan. 21.

Squad: Shubman Gill (captain), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Harshit Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Kuldeep Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Arshdeep Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal.

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FILE - Captain of Punjab Kings Shreyas Iyer addresses a news conference on the eve of the final match of Indian Premier League at Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad, India, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)