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For the archetypal clip since past July, the New York Yankees person been swept successful a regular-season series.
And it came against their astir bitter rival.
The Boston Red Sox had the Yankees’ fig implicit the weekend, winning each 3 games of their rivalry astatine Fenway Park. The last triumph came Sunday day arsenic Brayan Bello continued the inclination of ascendant starting pitching to assistance his Red Sox to a 2-0 win.
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Boston Red Sox mascot Wally and his father, Walter, observe defeating the New York Yankees and sweeping the bid astatine Fenway Park. (Eric Canha-Imagn Images)
Before the series, the Yankees were conscionable 1 of 3 teams successful MLB that hadn’t been swept this year. Their metropolis counterpart, the New York Mets, and the Cincinnati Reds are present the lone 2 teams that person managed to astatine slightest salvage 1 crippled successful a series.
It wasn’t needfully the Yankees’ pitching that enactment them successful this spread implicit the weekend, but alternatively the bats went astir wholly silent, including the AL MVP frontrunner, Aaron Judge.
Other than his game-tying solo location tally successful the archetypal crippled of this bid to unit other innings disconnected Garrett Crochet successful the apical of the ninth inning connected Friday night, Judge was 0-for-11 with 9 strikeouts.
But it wasn’t conscionable the Yankees skipper that couldn’t get the bat going. As a team, the Yankees went 15-for-94 (.160) with 10 walks, 3 extra-base hits and 27 full strikeouts, including 11 successful Sunday’s bid finale.
Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Brayan Bello pitches against the New York Yankees during the 3rd inning astatine Fenway Park. (Eric Canha-Imagn Images)
As the 42-28 squad knows, that’s not the mode to success.
But enactment the grounds for the play – the Yankees surely tin spend a slump fixed their AL East pb contempt the losses. However, those losses, combined with the Tampa Bay Rays winning 7 of their past 10 games, means New York lone holds a 3.5-game pb atop the division.
Meanwhile, the Red Sox are starting to get blistery astatine conscionable the close time. They deed good disconnected 2 of the game’s champion pitchers this season, Carlos Rodon and Max Fried, and the 3 wins got them backmost supra .500 (37-36). They are present conscionable a half-game backmost of the 3rd and last AL Wild Card spot.
New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge strikes retired against the Boston Red Sox successful the 4th inning astatine Fenway Park. (David Butler II-Imagn Images)
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Of course, there’s an full 2nd fractional of the play inactive to beryllium played successful this 162-game marathon. But portion the Red Sox are getting hot, the Yankees’ bats volition anticipation to dependable the vessel successful the Bronx this week against the visiting Los Angeles Angels and Baltimore Orioles.
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Scott Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital.
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