Max Fried earned his major league-leading 17th victory and Jazz Chisholm Jr. had three hits, leading the New York Yankees to a 5-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox.

It wasn’t as if Red Sox manager Alex Cora went into full Jim Mora “PLAYOFFS?!?” mode during his briefing with the media prior to Saturday’s game against the Yankees at Fenway Park. But he did make a p

Boston fallen to 5 1/2 games behind Toronto for first place in the AL East. And its cushion for an AL wild-card spot has shrunken shrunk to two games over Texas.

Now, the Red Sox turn to Brayan Bello for a Saturday afternoon tilt. He's a big reason why Boston found success against New York this season. Bello logged 14 scoreless innings with just six hits and 13 strikeouts in his first two outings against the Bronx Bombers this season.

His offense continued to string together good at-bats against Bello in the third. Judge drew his second walk in as many trips to the plate and Bellinger singled to put runners on the corners with no outs. Jazz came through with his second RBI single of the game to make it 3-0, though Jasson, Caballero, and Wells were retired to strand a pair.

Alex Bregman has played in eight postseasons — and eight consecutive meaningful Septembers. It’s fair to say, then, that he has gained some pretty good perspective when it comes to how to handle adversity late in a season when the standings get tight.

As the Yankees led 4-0 in the bottom of the seventh, second baseman David Hamilton was up to bat with one out. During the at-bat, the Apple TV+ broadcast camera caught a Boston fan sitting on the Green Monster, presumably having his way with Hamilton or one of Boston’s other players.