NEW YORK — Instant reactions as Brayan Bello outduels Max Fried and the Red Sox (70-59) clinch the season series over the Yankees with a gritty 1-0 win in the Bronx:

1) It was Bello’s night in the Bronx . The righty has always dominated the Yankees and that continued Friday with a stellar seven-inning performance that was as crisp as any Bello start in recent memory. Bello allowed just three hits and walked one batter. He struck out five.

Alex Cora could have sent Bello out for an eighth inning at 92 pitches but decided what he had seen was enough. The outing only teetered for a brief moment in the sixth, when Austin Wells led off with a single and Trent Grisham smoked a line drive the other way. The problem for the Yankees? The liner was right at Trevor Story, who caught it and threw

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