BOSTON -- David Price's tortured postseason history continued Saturday night as the New York Yankees belted two home runs off him in the first two innings of Game 2 of the American League Division Series. Price exited after recording just five outs and the Yankees rolled to a 6-2 win.
Price is now 0-9 in 10 career postseason starts (he has two wins as a reliever). Price's teams have never won a postseason game that he's started, the 10 straight losses the longest streak in postseason history. Next closest is Randy Johnson, whose teams lost seven straight starts. Price is also the only pitcher in MLB history to allow multiple earned runs in each of his first 10 career postseason starts. The only pitcher to allow multiple earned runs in 11 straight postseason starts is Roger Clemens, but those starts were not at the start of his postseason career.
His postseason ERA as a starter now stands at 6.03 as he's allowed 13 home runs in 59⅔ innings as a starter. This was the shortest starting stint in his career and marked the first time in 299 career starts -- regular or postseason -- in which he failed to record a strikeout.
"It's tough." Price said after the game. "You know, just after we won Game 1 to go out there and have that opportunity to go up 2-0 and throw the baseball the way I did, it was definitely tough.
"But my spirits aren't down. My confidence isn't down. I'm looking forward to getting back out there and getting another opportunity."
Saturday's opportunity turned sour quickly as Aaron Judge hit the first home run in the first inning, a 445-foot blast over the Green Monster in left center. Gary Sanchez then led off the second inning with a line shot just over the Monster in left field.
Both home runs came off cutters. Remarkably, Sanchez now has six home runs off Price, tied with Jose Bautista for the most of any hitter against the veteran left-hander -- except Sanchez has done it in just 14 at-bats while Bautista has done it in 59.
The Yankees have owned Price this season. They hit five home runs off him July 1 and now have 11 off him on the season. Including postseason numbers, that's the most home runs one team has hit off one pitcher in the past 10 seasons.
After the Sanchez homer, Price got two quick outs, but then walked Gleyber Torres on five pitches before Brett Gardner worked an eight-pitch walk, taking a 2-2 pitch just inside before taking a fastball way up and out of the strike zone for ball four. Andrew McCutchen followed with a rocket single to left field, high off the Green Monster, a ball that would have been a home run in many parks. That was it for Price, done after 42 pitches, three runs, no strikeouts and a loud chorus of boos as he headed to the Boston dugout.
The 2012 Cy Young winner now has the third-worst ERA as a starter in the postseason among pitchers with at least 10 starts, trailing only Jaret Wright (7.77 ERA) and Tim Wakefield (6.45 ERA).
Joe Kelly replaced Price as manager Alex Cora had to maneuver through a bullpen that is already down Steven Wright after the knuckleballer was removed from the postseason roster Saturday with a knee injury (replaced by Heath Hembree). The Red Sox bullpen struggled to throw strikes in Game 1 of the best-of-five series, needing 89 pitches to get just 11 outs.
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