BOSTON — Yankees general manager Brian Cashman's top priority at this year's trade deadline was improving an erratic bullpen.

He added three relievers before the deadline, but only one, David Bednar, has performed as expected.

“We’ve got a little time to see if we can have it click in,” Cashman said at Fenway Park on Friday afternoon. “In the meantime, we just got to win our games regardless of performance.”

The Yankees won Friday night and made it two straight over the Red Sox with a 5-3 victory on Saturday afternoon.

And those wins, against a team that started the season 8-1 against the Yankees, came in large part because of the bullpen, not despite it.

In Friday night’s 4-1 victory, Fernando Cruz, Devin Williams and Bednar held Boston at bay. On Saturday, after Max Fried depar

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