Shortly after the Yankees suffered a 1-0 loss to the Pink Sox on Friday evening, a couple of pinstripers acknowledged Boston’s dominance over the Bombers this season.
“It’s been tough,” Ben Rice stated. “They’ve had our number so far.”
“I honestly don’t have an answer for that,” Jasson Domínguez added when requested why the Sox have been so robust on his crew.
Solutions continued to elude the Yankees on Saturday, as they humiliated themselves in a 12-1 loss to the Pink Sox. The Yanks are actually 1-8 in opposition to their oldest rival and a mixed 4-15 in opposition to the Pink Sox and first-place Blue Jays this season.
These are devastating information in opposition to division foes with Aaron Boone’s third-place ballclub chasing Alex Cora’s second-place squad within the American League East and Wild Card standings.
“There’s absolutely frustration,” Rice stated Friday. “Those are our division [rivals]. So we gotta be better. Gotta find ways to win our division games.”
Saturday’s massacre started with the Pink Sox taking good care of enterprise in opposition to Will Warren, who totaled seven hits, 5 earned runs, three walks, three strikeouts and 69 pitches over simply 4 innings.
Boston started scoring within the third inning when Trevor Story smacked a two-run double off Warren. Extra hassle discovered the righty within the fourth, as Trent Grisham misplayed a leadoff ground-rule double from Ceddanne Rafaela with the wind blowing in heart area. The play, which had a 90% catch chance, preceded sac flies from Roman Anthony and Alex Bregman, which put the Pink Sox up, 4-0.
Giancarlo Stanton responded with a solo homer off Pink Sox ace Garrett Crochet within the fourth, giving the scorching slugger 16 dingers in his final 37 video games. However Story clapped again together with his personal bases-empty blast to guide off the fifth, ending Warren’s afternoon.
Crochet, then again, cruised by seven innings. The Stanton dwelling run was the one mistake the lefty made, and he racked up 11 strikeouts in opposition to an offense that didn’t present a lot life within the first two video games of this sequence.
A Cy Younger contender, Crochet additionally tallied 5 hits, one stroll and 103 pitches earlier than the Pink Sox added a couple of extra runs off Paul Blackburn within the ninth. With Jarren Duran, Nathaniel Lowe and Rafaela all selecting up RBI singles, Yankees followers raced for the exits whereas Bostonians chanted “Let’s go Red Sox” within the Bronx.
The Yankees followers who did stay had been then handled to some critically ugly baseball, because the struggling Anthony Volpe airmailed a throw to first and allowed one other run to attain. It was his seventeenth error of the 12 months, tying him with Elly De La Cruz for the main league lead.
Blackburn then balked a run in earlier than surrendering a two-run homer to Carlos Narváez. Similar to that, a disappointing loss become a complete laugher.
With one other sequence in opposition to the Pink Sox already misplaced — Boston took 5-out-of-6 video games over two units in June — the Yankees will attempt to keep away from a four-game sweep on Sunday Evening Baseball.
Dustin Could will begin for the Pink Sox. The ex-Dodger has been stable since being acquired on the commerce deadline, posting a 2.87 ERA over 15.2 innings for his new crew.
In the meantime, Carlos Rodón will attempt to play the a part of stopper for the Yankees. The All-Star has a 2.50 ERA over his final three begins, however he’s allowed eight earned runs over 10 innings in opposition to Boston this season.
Initially Printed: August 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM EDT
