Yankees swept – A disastrous Fenway weekend ended with a 5-4 extra-inning loss to the Boston Red Sox on Sunday night, sealing Boston’s first four-game sweep of New York since 2018 and handing the Yankees another gutting stutter in an already alarming offensive stretch.
The New York Yankees walked off Fenway Park on Sunday night with the same feeling that had hung over them all weekend: they just couldn’t get the offense going when it mattered. This time it came in the final, brutal act of a 5-4 extra-inning loss to the Boston Red Sox, finishing a four-game sweep.
Boston right-hander Sonny Gray—returning to the mound against his former team—carried a no-hitter into the eighth inning. It lasted until Amed Rosario broke it up with a one-out single, but by then the damage had already been written into the scoreboard and the momentum had shifted.
Gray reached a milestone while doing it. The 36-year-old struck out Spencer Jones for his 2,000th career strikeout. He finished with one hit allowed, one walk and nine strikeouts over 7 1/3 innings while throwing 97 pitches, including 64 strikes, lowering his ERA to 2.69.
The game briefly flipped anyway, and it flipped because New York refused to disappear. In the ninth. the Yankees scored two runs off All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman to tie the score. helped by a throwing error from Wilyer Abreu. The Yankees then put together two more in the 10th inning. including an RBI single from Rosario after another Abreu error.
Boston answered immediately in the bottom half. Anthony Seigler drove in the automatic runner before Masataka Yoshida doubled. Tsung-Che Cheng then tied the game with a sacrifice fly.
After New York shifted Rosario from left field into a five-man infield, Jarren Duran lined the game-winning hit into uncovered right field to complete the Red Sox comeback. Justin Slaten earned the win, while Fernando Cruz took the loss after being unable to protect the Yankees lead.
For a team that entered Fenway Park with the American League’s best record, the final line was unforgiving. New York finished with only three hits, went 1-for-6 with runners in scoring position and left four runners on base. Sunday’s setback was only the third time in franchise history that the Yankees managed three hits or fewer in three consecutive games. joining the 1908 and 1914 teams.
There was also something else to hold onto: how historic the skid looked from the outside. Boston’s four-game sweep was its first of New York since 2018, and it also marked the franchise’s first four-game winning streak of the season.
New York’s offensive struggles have now become part of the team’s weekend résumé. The loss Sunday capped what the Yankees endured amid one of the worst offensive stretches in franchise history, while their postseason expectations have been thrown into sharp relief.
On the mound, Gray’s run against the Yankees was more than a one-game story. His form has improved since returning from a right hamstring strain: over his last 10 starts, he has gone 7-0 with a 2.08 ERA after recording a 4.30 ERA before landing on the injured list.
Boston’s rotation was similarly steady. It recorded 11 consecutive quality starts, compiling a 7-1 record with a 1.51 ERA during that stretch—the team’s longest run since 14 straight quality starts in April 1988.
Even when the Yankees managed to find cracks late, they couldn’t turn those chances into a clean escape. By the time the series ended, New York—after dropping eight of their last 11 contests—had left Fenway trailing the Tampa Bay Rays by one game in the AL East.
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Yankees can’t hit at all at Fenway, wow.
Sounds like Sonny Gray was dealing and then suddenly it was all errors?? Like how do you have a no-hitter and still lose 5-4 extra innings… that’s rough. Also Chapman blew it which I didn’t expect.
So the Yankees tied it in the 9th off Chapman and then got another off errors from Abreu, but Boston still won. I’m confused—if Boston had a no hitter then it’s basically Yankees fault right? Or was it the ump bc extra inning stuff always weird.
I swear Fenway always messes with New York. Like every time I watch them there they look lost, then they suddenly score in bunches like it’s scripted. Gray had a no-hitter thru 8 and then Rosario single like ok sure. Also 2,000 strikeouts is cool but still doesn’t help if your team gives up 2 runs and then an auto runner thing, whatever.