The final time the Yankees confronted the Pink Sox, the since-traded Rafael Devers hit a house run for Boston.
Luis Gil had not but made his season debut, whereas Boston’s Alex Bregman was coping with a quad pressure that saved him out of the primary two sequence towards the Yankees.
However one factor that hasn’t modified within the two-plus months since then?
The Pink Sox nonetheless have the Yankees’ quantity.
The Yankees dropped Thursday evening’s sequence opener within the Bronx, 6-3, for his or her sixth consecutive loss towards the Pink Sox as their lead for the highest American League wild card spot weakened.
They’re now 1-6 towards their century-old rival this yr.
The Yankees dedicated 4 errors and a expensive balk in Thursday’s defeat, resulting in 4 unearned runs on an evening Boston went 3-for-19 with runners in scoring place and stranded 14 baserunners.
Nathaniel Lowe’s RBI double towards reliever Luke Weaver broke a 3-3 tie within the seventh and proved to be the game-winner. It got here in Lowe’s third recreation with the Pink Sox, whom he joined after being launched by the Nationals final weekend.
Rookie phenom Roman Anthony added a two-run residence run within the ninth towards Yerry De los Santos to cap an enormous Yankee Stadium debut.
Boston’s late-inning offense adopted an up-and-down begin by Gil, who held the Pink Sox to 2 runs (one earned) over 5 innings, regardless of issuing 5 walks and permitting 4 hits.
It was the fourth begin of the yr for Gil, who missed the season’s first 4 months attributable to a high-grade lat pressure.
Gil dedicated the Yankees’ first error of the evening when he did not discipline a Masataka Yoshida comebacker to start the highest of the second.
That was the primary of three errors within the inning by the Yankees.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. overthrew first base on a possible double-play ball, permitting Ceddanne Rafaela to achieve safely and advance to second. Rafaela later scored from third when catcher Ben Rice overthrew second base on a steal by David Hamilton, giving the Pink Sox a 1-0 lead.
Rice atoned for his miscue within the backside of the second with a game-tying solo residence run — his twentieth homer of the season — off of Boston starter Lucas Giolito.
However that was the one residence run of the evening for the Yankees, who totaled 14 on Tuesday and Wednesday in Tampa to tie an MLB report for essentially the most homers over a two-game span.
Paul Goldschmidt’s RBI single towards Giolito broke the 1-1 tie within the fourth, and Chisholm’s run-scoring bloop single off of left-hander Justin Wilson gave the Yankees a 3-2 lead within the fifth.
However the Pink Sox answered towards reliever Camilo Doval, who gave up an infield single to Hamilton, then balked him over to second base. Anthony’s ensuing RBI single tied the sport, 3-3.
Lowe then broke the tie within the seventh, and Goldschmidt dedicated a fielding error that allowed Hamilton to achieve within the ninth earlier than Anthony’s lead-padding homer.
Anthony completed 2-for-5 with three RBI. Bregman, in his first look within the Yankees-Sox rivalry, went 3-for-5 with a stroll.
The Yankees beat Boston of their first assembly of the season on June 6 within the Bronx, however they dropped the ultimate two video games of that sequence and had been swept at Fenway Park per week later.
With Thursday’s loss, the Yankees’ lead over Boston for the highest AL Wild Card spot is all the way down to a half-game.
The Yankees are 1.5 video games forward of the Seattle Mariners, who maintain the third and last wild card place, and three.5 video games forward of the Kansas Metropolis Royals, who’re on the skin wanting in.
The four-game sequence continues Friday evening, with Max Fried (13-5, 3.26 ERA) set to start out for the Yankees and Brayan Bello (9-6, 3.23 ERA) scheduled to pitch for Boston.
Initially Printed: August 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM EDT
