Red Sox dominating Yankees in suddenly one-sided rivalry: ‘Kicked our ass’

Sunday was the most recent indignity, the latest instance of this one-sided rivalry.

9 occasions the Yankees and Pink Sox have met this season, and the Yankees have gained simply as soon as.

One out of 9. One measly victory.

On Sunday, Boston discovered a method regardless of blowing 4 completely different leads. Regardless of nearer Kenley Jansen placing the primary two males on base within the ninth inning with a one-run lead.

Nothing appears to matter this 12 months on the subject of the Yankees and the Pink Sox.

Boston will discover a option to prevail.

The Pink Sox dominance head-to-head is a significant purpose they’re solely three video games behind the Mariners for the third AL wild card and the Yankees want a miracle simply to get again into the race.

“They’ve kicked our ass,” supervisor Aaron Boone stated after the Yankees fell to the Red Sox, 6-5, dropping their eighth straight recreation to cap off this three-game sweep. “We’ve performed a handful of aggressive video games which have come right down to the top. We simply haven’t been adequate.”

The Pink Sox cruised to wins within the first two video games of the collection by a mixed 16-4.

Sunday was completely different.

Sunday the Yankees punched again.

However the Pink Sox had a solution each time.

It was a enjoyable weekend for them, notably the duo of Rafael Devers and Justin Turner.

Devers, a Yankees killer batting .429 (15-for-35) towards them this 12 months, went 9-for-13 within the collection, homered twice and drove in 4 runs.

Turner was 6-for-11 with six RBIs, 4 coming within the collection finale.

He hit a three-run homer within the seventh and plated the game-winning run within the ninth.

“That had an actual playoff really feel, particularly in these final three innings the forwards and backwards and the followers had been into it,” Turner, a former Mets infielder, stated. “It was good to get that win.”

There are nonetheless 4 video games left between the 2 at Fenway Park from Sept. 11-14, 4 extra occasions for the Pink Sox to additional crush the Yankees if their 9 video games thus far are any indication.

The Pink Sox have gained three one-run video games from the Yankees and so they have additionally prevailed in blowouts. They’ve outscored them, 54-24.

It hasn’t been a good combat this 12 months.

“All people within the AL East is hard this 12 months, and so they simply acquired the higher of us this 12 months,” Isiah Kiner-Falefa stated. “They’re swinging the bats properly, and so they have a great recreation plan pitching. They’re simply higher than us proper now.”

By a large margin.