'Got to get a win': Yankees' skid at 8 after overturned call - ESPN

NEW YORK — An overturned call at the plate in the eighth inning led to the latest loss in what has become the New York Yankees' worst season in decades.

The Yankees extended a losing streak to eight for the first time in 28 years, allowing Justin Turner's ninth-inning go-ahead double in a 6-5 defeat to the Boston Red Sox on Sunday.

«We got to be unbelievable the rest of the way,» manager Aaron Boone said after the Yankees dropped to 60-64 and fell nine games behind Seattle for the AL's last wild-card spot.

«We're really scuffling.»

New York appeared to break a 5-5 tie in the eighth when Isiah Kiner-Falefa scored from first on rookie Anthony Volpe's single. Plate umpire Junior Valentine signaled safe, ruling Kiner-Falefa's left foot got in ahead of Connor Wong's tag, but the call was reversed in a video review, which also upheld the catcher did not block the plate in violation of rules.

«I got the go sign, went in there,» Kiner-Falefa said. «I didn't feel like I had a lane. I think the rule is if you're catcher and you've over the foul line it's considered blocking the bag right there. The ball did beat me but I didn't feel like they had enough to overturn it.»

Kiner-Falefa took off from first right before Volpe made contact. He raced home after left fielder Rob Refsnyder slipped before making the throw to shortstop Trevor Story.

«From the get-go I thought he was out,» said Boston manager Alex Cora, who had been ejected two inning earlier for arguing a called third strike and watched the key play from the clubhouse. «I was wondering why Junior was waiting. He waited, waited to call him safe and I was like what is he doing.»

Swept in consecutive series by Atlanta and Boston, the Yankees have lost eight straight for the