Yankees snag big comeback win over Red Sox after Jazz Chisholm trade

BOSTON — A drunken bar fight broke out between the Yankees and Red Sox on Saturday night at Fenway Park.

And just when it looked like the Yankees had taken one too many stools over the head courtesy of their pitching staff, they caught a third wind to avoid a fourth straight loss.

Down to their last strike in the ninth inning, the Yankees got a game-tying double from Trent Grisham and then put up a three-spot in the top of the 10th, which was finally enough to stave off the Red Sox for an 11-8 win.

For most of the night, a shutdown inning was a foreign concept for the Yankees (61-45).

In each of the first four innings in which they scored, their pitchers immediately pulled the chair out from underneath them in the bottom of the inning.

But they finally got big outs late Tommy Kahnle (eighth inning) and Clay Holmes (the ninth and 10th) to capture the win that seemed elusive for much of the night.

After Juan Soto had blown through a stop sign at third base to get thrown out easily at the plate as the potential tying run in the eighth, the Yankees found a way to tie it off Kenley Jansen in the ninth.

Ben Rice doubled off the center-field wall with one out and pinch-runner Jahmai Jones came around to score the tying run on Grisham’s two-out double off the Green Monster.

Holmes, who helped blow a three-run lead Friday night, was much sharper Saturday and tossed a quick bottom of the ninth to send the game to extras.

Juan Soto singled and Aaron Judge walked — reaching base for a career-high six times — to load the bases with one out for Austin Wells, who hit a sacrifice fly that put the Yankees up 9-8.

Gleyber Torres then ripped a double to the gap that plated both Soto and Judge to make it an 11-8 game.

Holmes then came back out for the bottom of the 10th and shut the Red Sox (55-48) down again.

Taking the field roughly 25 minutes after their trade for Jazz Chisholm Jr. became official, the Yankees raced off to a quick start with some juice from their offense.

The rest of the night only exposed the Yankees’ bigger need ahead of Tuesday’s trade deadline: pitching.

Marcus Stroman turned in his shortest outing of the year, lasting just 3 ¹/₃ innings.

He got tagged for nine hits and gave up five runs, though only three of them were earned because of an Anthony Volpe fielding error.

The first two innings of the game were pure chaos, and much of it not pretty for the Yankees.

Alex Verdugo led off by admiring a 373-foot single to right field, but was spared by Juan Soto, who followed by crushing a 400-foot homer into the bullpen to put the Yankees up 2-0.

Judge came up next and made it back-to-back, obliterating another baseball 432 feet onto Lansdowne St. off Kutter Crawford, who had tossed seven shutout innings against the Yankees earlier this month.

But the Red Sox quickly tied it up in the bottom of the frame against Stroman.

Two batters in, Wilyer Abreu ripped a solo shot to straightaway center field to make it 3-1.

Then, after singles by Masataka Yoshida and Rafael Devers, Tyler O’Neill roped a double past the dive of Trent Grisham to score both runners and tie the game.

Oswaldo Cabrera, starting a second straight game at third base over DJ LeMahieu, got the Yankees the lead back in the top of the second on a solo home run to right field.

He was nearly robbed by a spectacular grab from Abreu, but as the right fielder crashed into the first row of seats trying to make the catch, the ball was jarred loose from his glove, putting the Yankees back up 4-3.

The bottom of the second began with Volpe bobbling a ground ball, which spilled into more trouble for Stroman.

Ceddanne Rafaela followed with a single and then fired off a double steal with David Hamilton before Jarren Duran tied the game with an RBI single to center field.

Grisham had no chance of throwing out Hamilton (scoring from third) on the play, but unloaded a big throw home anyway, which allowed Duran to take second on the play.

The Yankees did get another out on the play, as they caught Rafaela sleeping a few steps off the bag while talking to his third-base coach and threw over for Cabrera to slap the tag on him.

But allowing Duran to take second proved costly, as he came around to score on Yoshida’s single that put the Red Sox up 5-4.

The Yankees tied it at five and later six, but Jake Cousins and Michael Tonkin each handed the Red Sox the lead right back in the bottom of the inning.