Just as it seemed the Yankees were turning a corner, they got shoved into a locker by their worst enemy. Earlier this week in our series preview, I described this four-game bout with the Red Sox as “one of the most pivotal series of the season.” As the Bombers have so often done in series with high stakes this year, they completely humiliated themselves in the first three games and must now win Sunday night to salvage any positive result from a complete disaster of a weekend.

All three losses have had distinct flavors. There was the familiar so-close-so-far frustration of Thursday night, where the Yankees were their own worst enemy—making multiple foolish errors to give Boston all the extra chances they needed to win. Then came Friday night’s tedious futility in which the offense failed t

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