Yankees Silenced by Red Sox Again, German Struggles

 RED SOX 5 - YANKEES 3

The Boston Red Sox honored Dustin Pedroia Friday night before a sellout crowd at Fenway Park -- the first sellout in Beantown since pre-COVID-19. And to cap off the party, the Red Sox held off the Yankees 5-3 to push their lead over them for second place in the AL East to 3.5 games. 

For the Yankees it was another frustrating night -- something that has become all too commonplace for them. Not only are they now 0-4 against their arch rivals this year, but they watched chances to win this game slip away. 

The Yankees erased an early 3-0 deficit in the second inning on a bases loaded walk to Clint Fraizer and a two-run single by DJ LeMahieu to tie it. The Yankees would never score again. 

The only time they came close to scoring, Gio Urshela was thrown out at the plate in the fourth inning on a controversial decision by third base coach Phil Nevin to send him. 

Domingo German was bad again on the mound for New York. He gave up four runs, three earned in four innings of work, as both Hunter Renfroe and Xander Bogaerts had multi-RBI games off of him. 

To make matters worse, Zach Britton had to leave the game with an apparent leg injury after giving up an RBI single to Christian Vasquez. Britton already spent time on the IL, including a rehab stint at the Somerset Patriots. 

At 40-35 the Yankees are stuck in mediocrity, and stuck in third place in the AL East.