The Red Sox losing streak is now a week long.
The Sox dropped their eighth straight Sunday, outclassed by the New York Yankees, 7-4, completing a sweep by the Yankees in the four-game series in New York.
David Price was rocked for seven runs in just 2.2 innings, including six runs in the third inning. It was Price's fifth straight poor start.
The Sox managed a but of a comeback with solo homers from Christian Vazquez and Michael Chavis in the fifth and for a tw0-run single from Andrew Benintendi in the sixth, but the Sox got no closer than that.
WHO: Red Sox (59-54) vs. New York Yankees (71-39)
WHEN: 7:05 p.m.
WHERE: Yankee Stadium
SERIES TO DATE: New York 3-0
SEASON SERIES TO DATE: New York 10-4
STARTING PITCHERS: LHP David Price (7-4, 3.86) vs. LHP J.A. Happ (8-6, 5.19)
TV/RADIO: ESPN/WEEI 93.7 FM
IN-GAME OBSERVATIONS:
10:42 Given how well the Yankees have been swinging the bat this series, I didn't expect that Ryan Weber would be the guy who shuts them down. And yet, here we are and Weber has retired all six hitters he's faced.
10:23 Andrew Benintendi drills a single up the middle to score two, chasing Happ and making things mildly interesting.
10:00 Signs of life, finally, from the Red Sox offense, with back-to-back homers Christian Vazquez and Michael Chavis.
9:52 Tremendous play by Jackie Bradley Jr., who sprints into the gap in left center and takes extra bases away from Mike Fort, and, not that it matters, saved two runs.
9:28 That's it for Price, who comes completely unglued in the third. Faces 10 hitters in the third, eight reach, and six score, with 37 pitches thrown.
9:14 OK, so maybe the changeup wasn't great there -- left up in the zone for Gio Urshela to crush to left-center.
9:07 Despite the homer by Judge in the first, this is the best David Price has looked in some time. Both the changeup and cutter -- his two most important pitches -- have been effective.
8:28 Aaron Judge got jammed on the previous pitch and hit a ball down the line. But not on that one - driven the other way, but way out to RF.
LINEUPS
RED SOX
Betts RF
Devers 3B
Bogaerts SS
Martinez DH
Travis 1B
Benintendi LF
Vazquez C
Chavis 2B
Bradley CF
YANKEES
Torres 2B
Judge DH
Gregorius SS
Urshela 3B
Gardner CF
Maybin RF
Ford 1b
Higashioka C
Tauchman LF
WHAT'S UP: The Red Sox are in the middle of a seven-game losing streak, their longest in more than four years...The doubleheader sweep at the hands of the Yankees Saturday was the first doubleheader sweep of one team over the other since the Sox swept the Yankees in September of 2006...The Sox are 0-7 in their last seven series at Yankee Stadium....In their last 31 games, the Sox are just 8-23 at Yankee Stadium and 4-15 in the last 19....Outside of Fenway this year, the Sox are just 1-9 against the Yankees...Over the last four games, the Red Sox are just 3-for-27 with runners in scoring position....In the 42 games prior to that stretch, the Sox slashed .333/.405/.541 with RISP....Overall, for the season, the Sox are third in MLB with RISP with a .285 batting average. They rank first with RISP and two outs, with a .283 average...Rafael Devers Saturday became the first player to hit at least 22 homers at age 22 since Jim Rice in 1975....The last Sox players to hit more than 22 homers before turning 23 were Tony Conigliaro who hit 28 in 1966 and George Scott, who hit 27 in the same season....Devers has 83 RBI in his last 86 games...Xander Bogaerts, who has already established a career high in homers (25), is one homer away from the 100th of his career...The Sox, as a team, have homered in each of the last 10 games...Last year, their longest streak was 13 games...The Sox have at least one homer in 31 of the last 34 games for a total of 62, ranking them third in that span... Betts has 12 RBI in his last 10 games...Michael Chavis is hitless in his last 11 at-bats...Since being recalled on July 15, Sam Travis is batting .310 with an .879 OPS....David Price is winless in his last four starts...He's allowed 14 runs in those four games....Before that, he had allowed 15 earned runs in his previous 10 starts....Didi Gregorius is a .371 career hitters (13-for-35) with a homer against Price...Aaron Judge is just 2-for-11 lifetime against Price....Devers is 5-for-17 (.294) in his career against Happ while Betts is just 7-for-39 (.179).
PRE-GAME NOTES:
- The Red Sox made a series of roster moves before the game, activating David Price from paternity leave, recalling RHP Ryan Weber while optioning INF Marco Hernandez, RHP Josh Smith and RHP Colten Brewer. The reason they sent out more than they brought up? The Sox held onto LHP Brian Johnson, who was added as the 26th man for the Saturday doubleheader. But because Johnson is out of options and would have had to have been exposed to waivers, they held onto Johnson for the major league roster.