It's difficult to believe that we had to wait until June for our first dose of the Yankees - Red Sox rivalry. I don't know about you, reader, but I could have sworn these two had already played this year. I had to double-check! Times have changed, the MLB schedule has changed, but that old Boston-New York hatred certainly hasn't.

The Yankees have retained their steady lead over the rest of the AL East with a series win over the Guardians, entering action with a 5.5-game lead. They're 9.5 games above the Red Sox, who have fallen behind the Rays and Jays to slip into fourth place.

Boston has had plenty of problems with injury: Alex Bregman recently joined Triston Casas, Masataka Yoshida, Patrick Sandoval, and Kutter Crawford—among others—on the IL. The Red Sox have gone 4-8 since losin

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