If you purchased a ticket to this game months ago, my condolences. Red Sox vs. Yankees is supposed to resemble a clash of titans, but instead, the Red Sox have been such an embarrassment they’ve fallen through the cellar floor and might as well be in a different hemisphere than New York (15.5 games back and the season’s not even halfway over yet).
You’ll get no Aaron Judge, no Roman Anthony, and probably no competitive game if it goes anything like the first few starts for Cam Schlittler against the Red
Sox. It’s too bad too because normally a four game set between these two teams at this point in the calendar would be box office material and generate major fireworks. But now the biggest piece of drama is if the Red Sox will fail as badly as they did the last time the Yankees were here, which was such a disastrous, listless effort it got Alex Cora and most of the coaching staff fired a few days later in Baltimore.
If you’re looking for a shred of positivity (not that this team deserves any), Connelly Early will get a chance to back up his effectively wild outing last time on the bump in Seattle. It would also be a nice little revenge game personally for Early, who lost both the Game 3 Wild Card series to the Yankees last fall and his start at Fenway against them in April.
In any case, volcanos are much less interesting when they’re dormant; so please bring the rivalry back soon baseball gods. I miss it!
⚾️ First Pitch: 7:10pm — Fenway Park, Boston, MA
📺 TV: NESN
📻 Radio: WEEI
