The Boston Red Sox scored five times on five hits to begin a six-run first inning and Garrett Crochet matched a season-high 12 strikeouts across six innings en route to a 6-4 win over the visiting New York Yankees on Sunday night.

Carlos Narvaez punctuated the big inning with a two-out solo homer to deep center field while Trevor Story, Nathaniel Lowe, Romy Gonzalez (double) and Masataka Yoshida all had multiple hits for Boston (82-68), which lost the first two games of the three-game series.

New York (83-66) fell four games behind the first-place Toronto Blue Jays in the American League East but lead the Red Sox by 1 1/2 games for the top AL wild-card spot.

Crochet (16-5) allowed just two baserunners through the first three innings and finished his outing with six innings of three-run

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