The Yankees can not stop Red Sox from winning in the Bronx

After adding Giancarlo Stanton last December, the Yankees thought they had a strong chance of avoiding the wild-card game for a second consecutive season.

When Miguel Andujar and Gleyber Torres quickly became candidates for the Rookie of the Year, the goal of winning the AL East was alive.

However, by the beginning of August, when the Red Sox buried the Yankees without Aaron Judge with a four-game sweep at Fenway Park, it was clear that the only way for the Yankees to play in October was to to hand over.

Thursday night at Yankee Stadium, what was known for a long time became official, when the Red Sox attacked Masahiro Tanaka and the Yankees, 11-6, in front of a crowd of 47,351 sold-out spectators. .

"First of all, I want to congratulate the Red Sox for an excellent regular season," Yankees manager Aaron Boone told the press conference after the Red Sox.

If the Yankees get the A's in the wild card game on Oct. 3, they'll get another shot at the Red Sox in the top-five finish in the world rankings.

The first are the A, who beat the Angels, 21-3, Thursday and found themselves a half-length behind the Yankees in the pursuit of the top spot and home game for the losing match.

Starting with three games against the Orioles at Friday night, the Yankees still have 10 losses to avoid a trip from Boston on the last Sunday of the regular season in Oakland for the wild-card match.

"They can celebrate now and we can celebrate later," Stanton said of the Red Sox, who dropped the first two games against the Yankees but attacked Chad Green. and spanked Aroldis Chapman in his first game off the disabled list.

Heath Hembree, winner of Stanton's Grand Slam in the fourth inning, wiped out a 4-2 deficit and gave the Yankees a 6-4 lead. Tanaka conceded a fifth-place finish in Mookie Betts (4-for-5, one-run, five RBIs) and a single to Andrew Benintendi that allowed JD Martinez, the RBIs' leader, to enter the match. , who had driven in the first run.

Boone called David Robertson and he traded a race for a double game started by Didi Gregorius. Robertson then insulted Xander Bogaerts and the Yankees could taste the sweep. Let their blood rivals meet next to the Yankees sandbox.

The Yankees did not understand that after Stanton's slogan, they were going to be eliminated by bobsleigh.

Steven Wright's knuckleball baffled them for three innings. Hicks made the mistake of throwing an expensive pitch in the seventh when the Red Sox scored three points. Chapman, in his first action since August 21 because of tendonitis left knee, was beaten for three points and two hits in two-thirds of a set, including the three-point Betts in the eighth.

"Obviously, it's disappointing. We had two good wins and (I) I wanted to give them a chance to win, and I obviously could not do it, "said Tanaka, who allowed five runs and six hits in more than four innings. run in his last three outings and none in the previous two. "Now we have to look forward."

While feeling the breath of the A.

No team leaves spring training to get a generic ticket. Even worse, no team dreams of playing the biggest game of the season away from home. The Yankees have the ticket. Now they have 10 games to make sure the first pitch is not in Oakland.