Final: Red Sox 6, White Sox 3

Chris Young blasted a pair of homers and Doug Fister delivered 6 1/3 innings of solid pitching to help the Red Sox finish off a four-game sweep of the White Sox Sunday afternoon at Fenway, 6-3. Overall, it was the sixth straight win for Boston and eighth in their last nine games. The Red Sox kept their three-game lead over the second-place Yankees.

Starting in right field in place of Mookie Betts, Young led the offense with his second two-homer game of the season. He cranked a solo shot in the first off Chicago starter Doug Pelfrey and added a three-run job in the fifth, while Eduardo Nunez added a solo shot of his own in the first.

Young's homers were sandwiched around an RBI double in the third to give the Red Sox all the offense they would need. Fister limited Chicago to three in the second and none the rest of the afternoon. He ended up going 6 1/3 innings, allowing eight hits, three runs (all earned) to go along with seven strikeouts and no walks to pick up his second win of the season. Along the way, he threw 87 pitches, 64 of them for strikes.

The Boston bullpen again worked masterfully, as Addison Reed, Matt Barnes and Craig Kimbel combined to blank Chicago the rest of the way. Ultimately, the Red Sox relievers allowed no runs in 14 innings of work in the series against the Pale Hose.

Looking forward to being with you for this one.

GAME NO.: 112
WHO: Red Sox (62-49) vs Chicago White Sox (41-67)
WHEN: 1:35 p.m.
WHERE: Fenway Park
TV: NESN
RADIO: WEEI (93.7 FM); Spanish: WCEC (1490 AM/103.7 FM)
PITCHERS: RHP Doug Fister (1-5, 518 ERA) vs. RHP Mike Pelfrey (3-9, 5.04 ERA)
BOX SCORE: MLB Gameday.

SERIES TO DATE: The Red Sox have won five straight, and go for a sweep of the ChiSox this afternoon at Fenway. On Friday night, the Red Sox overcame a 2-0 deficit to win 3-2. Mitch Moreland had a two-out, two-strike solo home run in the 11th for his third career walk-off homer (first with the Red Sox). Saturday saw two-run home runs by Andrew Benintendi and Jackie Bradley Jr., and another strong start by Drew Pomeranz on the way to a 4-1 win.

WHERE THINGS STAND: The Red Sox have jumped to a three-game lead over the Yankees in the A.L. East with a five-game winning streak. The White Sox have lost five in a row and nine of their last 11.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR: Fister allowed two runs on five hits in 7 2/3 innings Monday against the Indians. … Pelfrey is coming off his roughest start of the season Tuesday against the Blue Jays when he yielded a season-high six runs on seven hits in 5 2/3 innings for his second straight loss. Earlier this season, Pelfrey tossed five scoreless innings against the Red Sox on May 31, allowing five hits for the no-decision.

STAT OF NOTE: Red Sox relievers have thrown 11.1 scoreless innings to this point in the series. The Boston bullpen currently has a 2.91 ERA, best in the majors — the Red Sox have not finished a season with MLB’s lowest bullpen ERA in the last 100 years, and have not finished in the top 10 since 2009.

LINEUPS
RED SOX
Holt 2B
Nunez DH
Benintendi LF
Young RF
Devers 3B
Bogaerts SS
Moreland 1B
Bradley, Jr CF
Leon C
Fister SP

WHITE SOX
L. Garcia CF
Moncada 2B
Abreu 1B
Delmonico LF
Saladino DH
Sanchez 3B
Anderson SS
Narvaez C
Hanson RF
Pelfrey SP

Other pregame notes:

• Posted a quickie story here on John Farrell's pregame Q&A with the media, where he discussed (among other things) a timetable for the return of Dustin Pedroia and Hanley Ramirez, as well as his thoughts on the recent run of extra-inning games for his team and why he decided to give Mookie Betts the day off on Sunday.

• Quick tweak to the White Sox lineup: Tyler Saladino has been inserted as the new DH.

GAME COVERAGE FROM PRICE

4:05: Kimbrel on to try and nail down the save.

3:41: Doug Fister went 6 1/3 innings, allowing eight hits, three runs (all earned) to go along with seven strikeouts and no walks. 87 pitches, 64 strikes.

3:31: That'll be it for Doug Fister. Good start for a back-of-the-rotation guy -- six good innings with one real semi-stinker, that one coming in the second. You have to assess the level of the opposition, but that's the sort of outing you need from a guy like that. Addison Reed in to replace him. We'll have Fister's final line shortly.

3:27: The final line on Pelfrey: 5 2/3 innings, 8 hits, 6 runs, all earned, 3 walks. 89 pitches. Addison Reed now warming for the Red Sox here in the top of the seventh.

3:19: Holmberg throws one pitch. He hits Brock Holt. He departs for Juan Minaya. In my next life, I want to come back as a left-handed reliever.

3:18: That's it for Pelfrey. The Pale Hose are going to David Holmberg, a lefty out of the pen.

3:01: After the White Sox deliver an intentional walk to Andrew Benintendi, Chris Young blasts his second of the game on a 1-0 pitch over The Wall. A three-run job that makes it 6-3. It's his 15th career multi-homer game. He has five RBI on the day. Even a football writer masquerading as a baseball guy for a day can tell you the following: It's a good day for Chris Young. #elitebaseballanalysis

2:51: Nice job of Fister battling back there after allowing as pair of base hits in the top of the fifth that set up first and second with one out. He got a deep fly to right and a strikeout (looking) on Nicky Delmonico to end it. Through five, he's yielded three runs on seven hits with six strikeouts. An eminently respectable pitching line from someone at the back end of the rotation.

2:19: Chris Young doubles home Andrew Benintendi, but he's tossed out in a rundown between second and third to end the inning. Young's second RBI of the game ties it at three after three innings.

2:17: Good (mostly clean) inning for Fister. He's now at 41 pitches through three, 32 of them for strikes.

2:13: NFL Media is reporting that Jay Cutler is close to a deal with the Dolphins. The AFC East is about to get a little more mentholated, baby! (We now return you to our previously scheduled programming.)

2:10: Xander Bogaerts just did everything possible to manufacture a run: bloop single, nice steal of second, moved to third on infield ground ball. (He bolstered his recent streak to seven consecutive games with a hit.) But that's where he stayed. Still 3-2 after two.

2:01: Rough inning for Fister, although only one of the four Chicago hits was really that well struck. A few ground balls fall in, and it's 3-2, Chicago.

1:48: Chris Young takes a 2-2 pitch over The Wall and it's 2-0. His sixth of the year.

1:44: The Eduardo Nunez Experience continues. He goes yard on an 0-1 pitch, and it's 1-0 Sox.

1:36: First pitch from Fister, who proceeds to work a 1-2-3 first with a pair of strikeouts on just 11 pitches. Dynamite start to the afternoon.

1:29: Patriots LB Trevor Bates -- a University of Maine product -- throws out one of the first pitches here on Maine Day, and we are almost underway.