Oswaldo Cabreras first game back since gruesome ankle injury comes with a costly Yankees error

BOSTON — For the first time since a gruesome ankle injury last May, Oswaldo Cabrera was back in a big league lineup Sunday night.Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.

It did not go as well as he had hoped, though, with a crucial fielding error giving way to a pair of runs early on the way to the Yankees’ crushing 5-4, 10-inning loss to the Red Sox at Fenway Park.Cabrera went 0-for-3 while laying down a sacrifice bunt that keyed the Yankees’ two-run top of the 10th.But his fielding error at third base loomed large in the fourth inning.With a runner on first and one out in a scoreless game, Carlos Rodón got Willson Contreras to hit a hard grounder to third.

Cabrera bobbled it and by the time he threw over to first, it was too late.One out later, the Yankees should have been out of the inning, but instead Caleb Durbin came up next and hit a two-run single in what became a 37-pitch inning for Rodón, a big reason why he only lasted five innings.The Yankees defense had let them down Thursday night, committing four errors, and then came back to bite them again Sunday.“When we’re not scoring, we just didn’t play clean enough here this weekend,” manager Aaron Boone said.Cabrera was making his season debut after being called up from Triple-A on Wednesday as an injury replacement for Ryan McMahon.It was his first major league game since fracturing his left ankle and sustaining ligament damage on an awkward slide home in a brutal scene in Seattle.“He’s worked incredibly hard to overcome a really tough injury,” Boone said before the game.

“He’s done it with grace and class and hard work, all while being Oswaldo, which is one of those people that makes the room better when he’s around.”Longtime lefty killer Amed Rosario was in the lineup Sunday against righty Sonny Gray — breaking up his no-hitter in the eighth inning — putting a spotlight o...