Following three consecutive demoralizing losses to the archrival Red Sox, the Yankees needed to at least get one back tonight. Thanks to a pair of multi-homer nights from a few heroic lefties, they were able to break out of this rivalry rut. Trent Grisham and Jazz Chisholm Jr. each left the yard twice and drove in all but one of the Yankee runs in a 7-2 sanity-restoring victory. The Bombers snapped eight consecutive losses against Boston and pulled back within a game in the Wild Card hunt.

The Red Sox had scored first in each of the first three games of the series, and of course won all of them. So the Bombers had to snatch the initiative in this one, and they did so in the second inning. Jazz Chisholm Jr. came up following a leadoff single from Giancarlo Stanton and hit a skyscraping fly

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