Sunday was the latest indignity, the most recent example of this one-sided rivalღry.
Nine times the Yank♕ees and Red Sox have met this season, and the Yankees have won just once.
One out of nine. One measly victory.
On Sunday, Boston found a way despite blowing four different leads. Despite closer Kenley Jansen putting the first two me🍷n on base in th🔜e ninth inning with a one-run lead.
Noth🐬ing seems 🍨to matter this year when it comes to the Yankees and the Red Sox.
Boston will find a way to prevail.
The Red Sox dominance head-to-💖head is a major reason they are only three games behind the Mariners for the third AL wild card and the Yankees need a miracle just to get back into the race.
“They’ve kicked our ass,” manager Aaron Boone said after the Yankees fell to the Red Sox, 6-5, losing their eighth straight game to cap of💖f this three-game sweep. “We’ve played 🧜a handful of competitive games that have come down to the end. We just haven’t been good enough.”
The Red So🥂x cruised to wins♈ in the first two games of the series by a combined 16-4.
Sunday was different.
Sunday the Yankees punched back.
But the Red Sox had an answer every time.
It was a fun ꧂weekend for them, part🧜icularly the duo of Rafael Devers and Justin Turner.
Devers, a Yan♕kees killer batting .429 (15-for-35) against them this year, went 9-for-13 in the series, homered twice and dro🌌ve in four runs.
Turner was 6-for-11 with siꦦx RBIs, four coming in the series finale.
He hit a three-run homer in the seventh and plated the ga꧒me-winning run in the ninth.
“That had a real playoff feel, especially in those last three innings the back and forth and the fans were into it,” Turner, a former Mets infielder, said.ꦐ “It was good to get that win.”
There are still four games left between the two at Fenway Park from Sept. 11-14, four more times for the Red Sox to further crush the Yankees if their nine games so far ꦦare any indication.
The Red Sox have won three one-run games from the Yankees and they have also pre🦩vailed in blowouts. They have outscored them,⛄ 54-24.
It hasn’t been a fair fight this year.
“Everybody in the AL East is tough this year, and they just got the better o♏f us this year,” Isiah Kiner-Fa📖lefa said. “They’re swinging the bats well, and they have a good game plan pitching. They’re just better than us right now.”
By a wide margin.
