The Red Sox were unable to complete a 4-game series sweep of the Yankees thanks to a strong pitching effort by Carlos Rodon and two home runs apiece by Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Trent Grisham.
Four-game sweeps are hard.
Four-game sweeps on the road are near-impossible.
At least, that’s the case for the Red Sox, who last swept the Yankees in a series longer than three games 31,458 days ago.
July 9, 1939.
After taking the first three games of the long weekend in the Bronx, the Red Sox were finally kept down by their rivals. The Yankees triumphed 7-2 to avoid being swept on their own diamond and pick up their first win against the Red Sox after an eight-game losing streak.
Dustin May worked out of an immediate jam in the bottom of the first, but the Yankees came back with a vengeance every inning thereafter. They tallied just seven hits in the contest, but Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Trent Grisham each homered twice.
Facing the Bronx Bombers for the first time in his career, May managed to pitch into the fifth, but yielded five earned runs on five hits, including three home runs, all to right-center.
