In the first three games of their five game series with the Yankees, it barely seemed like the Red Sox were bothering to show up given the fact that they were out-scored 39-20 in three games. Last night, it looked as though they would actually win one. They were leading 8-5 going into the 9th inning. But, again, the Yankees proved they have the best of Boston this weekend:
BOSTON (AP) — Twenty-eight years after the “Boston Massacre” set the stage for Bucky Dent and yet another Yankees championship, New York is snuffing out the Red Sox once again.
Changing the style — but not the outcome — of an epic series that’s propelled them to a 5?-game lead in the AL East, the Yankees beat Boston for the fourth consecutive time on Sunday night, coming back with two homers and five RBIs from Jason Giambi to win 8-5 in 10 innings.
“This could have been the most incredible of them all,” New York manager Joe Torre said. “This ballclub just won’t be denied.”
Giambi led off the 10th with his second homer and Jorge Posada added a two-run shot for the Yankees, who have beaten Boston in the first four games of the five-game series and turned a 3?-game deficit into a 5?-game lead in just one month. A victory on Monday would top the 1978 series known as the “Boston Massacre” — a four-game September sweep that erased the remnants of Boston’s 14-game lead in the division
And it would go a long way toward putting a lid on the AL East race as we head into September.
Today’s game is a 1:05pm start, which means we could well have a replay of Friday.
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