The Yankees Were Just Swept By The Red Sox In Embarrassing, Pathetic, And Historic Fashion

Paul Rutherford. Getty Images.

If you'll kindly rewind to the night of Friday June 6th it was a great time to be a Yankees fan. The team had just put the finishing touches on a 9-6 win over Boston, pushing their rival further and further down the AL East standings. While it's still too early to care about day-to-day standings positioning, you gotta make sure to not play yourself out of contention before we get to July. Boston was on the verge of doing that if the Yankees played their game and handled business. Nine days later the Sox have rattled off 7 of 8, including five straight against New York. Boston, you very much have yourselves a summer of meaningful baseball ahead. At the moment the Yankees hold a four game first place lead, but three straight weekends of bad baseball with a national audience paying attention won't exactly inspire much confidence. I saw someone on Twitter say this team has a fetish for embarrassment and boy does that feel true sometimes. 

The Yankees were just swept in Fenway without holding a single lead all weekend. Astonishing. They amounted all of four runs in three games, which is the first time that's happened to a Yankee team in Boston in 103 years. Their bats were abysmal. Aaron Judge was terrible outside of his game-tying homer against Crochet on Friday night, going 1 for 12 with 9 strikeouts. Volpe was a nightmare in the field. Rice and Dominguez both got picked off 2nd base. As a group they did their best to make Boston's pitching staff look like the 1996 Atlanta Braves. There was no approach. No urgency. No energy. They were just going through the motions while Boston played like a team that cared. 

Of course, Aaron Boone doesn't seem concerned. 

To a degree they shouldn't be panicking because of a mid-June series. For the most part they've played some great ball in 2025 and you can't just forget about all that because of a bad stretch. But losing 5 of 6 to Boston when you could have buried them, and losing 2 of 3 to the Dodgers, in a span of three weeks shouldn't sit well with anyone. You also have to factor in that they've wet the bed when it comes to playing their own division. It's honestly amazing they had the lead they did while playing this poorly.  

To begin the season I honestly thought this lineup would struggle to score runs. Before this stretch they had done the complete opposite. I really hope this weekend was an aberration and I was wrong from the jump. I thought Boston would contend with the Yankees for first all year long. It took them some time, but they finally joined the party. With Tampa and Toronto very much in the mix right now this could be a crazy race all summer long for first in the AL East. It didn't have to be this way, but of course the Yankees don't make anything easy. 

P.S. Giancarlo Stanton returns as soon as possibly tomorrow and that could not come at a better time. His swing will take some time to get up to speed, but his veteran leadership goes so far with this team. I almost want to imagine these guys come back from Boston and Stanton is waiting in the clubhouse waiting to unleash fury for the effort they gave up there. 

Advertisement

P.P.S. Fried was so good today and it didn't matter. Pathetic