Facing the Red Sox (37-36) on back-to-back weekends, the Yankees (42-28) dropped five of six and seemingly gave life to their rival’s season. In The Bronx, it was their pitching that failed them. At Fenway, it was their lifeless bats, plus a costly baserunning miscue in each of the past two games.

Rafael Devers homered and Brayan Bello tossed seven shutout innings as the Boston Red Sox completed a three-game sweep of the visiting New York Yankees with a 2-0 victory Sunday.

Brayan Bello struck out eight over seven innings, Rafael Devers homered and Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees 2-0 for a three-game sweep that extended their winning streak to five.

DP_New York 3 (Volpe, Rice; Chisholm, Volpe, Rice; Volpe, Peraza, Rice); Boston 2 (Story, Campbell, González; Toro, D.Hamilton, González). Inherited runners-scored_Whitlock 2-0.

This comes after Yankees manager Aaron Boone had admitted trainers had told him Chisholm was only available “in an emergency” for the series finale. Boone wouldn’t commit to Chisholm starting the opener at Fenway Park after Thursday night's game, seemingly a warning for this.

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Aaron Judge hit his 4th home run in 3 games against the Royals on Wednesday, slotting the Yankees superstar into multiple pages of the MLB history books.

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