You have a great start, you have a crap start. That’s the roller coaster Dustin May has been riding on at the moment, and what an ugly one it was at Yankee Stadium. The Red Sox trade deadline acquisition had a rough go of it on the bump with three dingers given up. Trent Grisham had May’s number all day.

This is how the Yankees win, they rely on the long ball to take them to victory. The Red Sox limited them a bunch in the first three games of the series, but couldn’t hang on for the fourth one. The offense fell immensely flat aside from Nathaniel Lowe, as Carlos Rodón absolutely carved up this Sox lineup. It wasn’t the strikeouts that got the Sox today, it was ground ball after ground ball. Even with five walks by Rodón, two double plays wiped them out and they left seven on base total.

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