The Yankees, that is, thanks to some skilled pitching from a former Boston Red Sox:
NEW YORK (AP) — More than a decade after bolting from Boston, Roger Clemens left the Red Sox scratching their heads.
The Rocket shut down his original team, allowing only two hits and outpitching an ace 18 years younger than him in the New York Yankees’ 4-3 victory over the Red Sox on Wednesday night.
“I was trying to be as stingy as possible,” Clemens said. “It’s going to be a grind for me. I’m asking my body to be 25 right now.”
Alex Rodriguez hit his major league-leading 44th home run and the Yankees got another big hit from Johnny Damon to earn their second consecutive win in the series. New York trimmed Boston’s cushion to six games in the AL East and moved within a percentage point of Seattle for the wild-card lead.
A six game lead is still pretty big at this point in the season, but this is New York and Boston……..
