Mike Yastrzemski channels family history to power SF Giants over Red Sox at Fenway

BOSTON — Since the jewel box ballpark opened in 1912, there had been 238 instances of a Yastrzemski depositing a baseball on the other side of one of Fenway Park’s fences.

All but one of them belonged to Carl Yastrzemski, who slugged the final homer of his Hall-of-Fame career in 1983, seven years before his only grandson was born. Four decades later, Mike Yastrzemski carried on his family lineage’s on this turf, increasing the count to 239 to power the Giants’ 3-1 win Thursday afternoon over the Red Sox.