New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox: What’s next for each squad?

With New York Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman’s recent struggles, it’s time to move Dellin Betances into the ninth-inning role.

This time, though, Red Sox closer Craig Kimbrel, who had come on in the ninth to strike out Gardner with a runner at third, zipped through the heart of the Yankees’ order.

Fister owns an inviting 10.7 walk percent this season, and the Indians have an attractive implied total (5.0 runs) in a batter-friendly matchup (10.0 over/under, 1.082 park factor) on Monday, so their lineup carries some upside for fantasy owners. numberFire’s models project Perez to score 6.4 FanDuel points at a cost of $2,000, so he could be a possible value play. The two get back together at Fenway for another three-game series next weekend. Reed hadn’t hit a batter since the second game of the 2014 season, and had faced more than 1,000 batters in that span before plunking Gardy.

In the aftermath, Chapman wasn’t acting or looking like he was all that bummed while taking media questions that were translated into Spanish by team interpreter Marlon Abreu. And Girardi was feeling the loss as deeply as the entire team when he spoke.

Girardi doesn’t plan on making a change however – he’s sticking with Chapman and said so forcefully after the game.

The Yankees are in real trouble as far as winning the division.

The Boston Red Sox on the other hand, take a 5.5 game lead over the Yankees as they next take on the Cleveland Indians in a makeup game. Rookie Aaron Judge has been in a slump lately but managed to record a stolen base in tonight’s game. “Kind of a vintage Chris Sale game that he’s given us so many times this year”. “We were in position to win”.

Eduardo Nunez has been sensational at the plate since being acquired by the Red Sox before the trade deadline, but he hasn’t been flawless.

The silver lining that’s in the Yankees’ back pocket is the Wild Card standings.

In less than 24 hours, the Yankees went from experiencing one of their most exhilarating wins of the season, to one of their ugliest losses in 2017.

“Maybe”, first baseman Chase Headley said.

Baseball hates you. You might think baseball loves you, but no, if baseball is being kind to you, it’s only so that it can hurt you later.

It just wasn’t the reason they lost on Sunday night.

The current Red Sox don’t have all that many at-bats against Bauer.

“So for the second half, I improved and I learned from that experience”, he said. “It would have been better if it was 3 1/2”.

“I just let him throw pitches, see pitches and I picked the one that I liked”, Devers said through an interpreter.

Sale is having a better season than either Kershaw or Justin Verlander did when they won their MVP awards and has been the most valuable player in baseball this season – and it isn’t close. New Yorkers know this all too well from his time in pinstripes.