FINAL: Red Sox 8, Yankees 3 - Bryan Bello and Masataka Yoshida stellar in win

WHO: Red Sox (63-58) at Yankees (60-61)
WHEN: 7:10 p.m.
WHERE: Yankees Stadium, New York, NY.
SERIES TO DATE: Boston leads series, 5-1.
STARTING PITCHERS: RHP Jhony Brito (4-5, 4.76 ERA) vs. RHP Bryan Bello (8-7, 3.81 ERA)
TV/RADIO: Apple TV+, WEEI-FM 93.7

LIVE BOX

LINEUP 

RED SOX

Verdugo RF 
Devers 3B 
Turner DH 
Yoshida LF
Casas 1B
Story SS 
Duran CF
McGuire C
Reyes 2B
Bello SP 

YANKEES 

LeMahieu 3B
Judge DH
Bauers 1B
Stanton RF 
Torres 2B
McKinney LF 
Bader CF 
Volpe SS 
Rortvedt C
Brito SP 

PRE-GAME NOTES 

Alex Speier noted Triston Casas' 431-foot home run off LHP Patrick Corbin on Thursday marked the longest by a lefty not named Shohei Ohtani against left-handed pitching outside of Colorado. He hit only his third home run this season against a lefty. Casas finished sixth all-time with 25 home runs through 420 at-bats before turning 23. He bats fifth against RHP Jhony Brito, who handled bulk work last week and is scheduled to open tonight's game with Carlos Rodon (hamstring) and Nestor Cortes (shoulder) injured for New York. 

The Red Sox trail the Blue Jays by 3.5 games in the Wild Card standings, and now sit 3.0 games behind the Mariners after losing this week's series in Washington. 

DH Justin Turner returns to the lineup after taking Thursday off resting his heel. SS Trevor Story makes his sixth shortstop appearance after taking a break as DH on Thursday. He's hitting 7-31 (.226) since returning. 

WHAT'S UP 

The Red Sox have lost back-to-back games...They’re 2-3 in their last 5 games, after a 4-1 stretch...They’re 23-16 since 6/30, the 7th-best mark in MLB....At 63-58 (.521), Boston owns MLB’s 12th-best record...Boston lost yesterday’s series finale at Washington, 10-7, dropping the 3-game series...It was the Sox’ 41st game with 5+ runs and 10+ hits, tied with TB for 4th most in MLB (TEX-52, ATL-49, BAL-42)....Yesterday was Boston’s 1st loss with 5+ runs and 10+ hits since 5/30 vs. CIN, snapping a streak of 19 consecutive wins when doing so...The Sox scored 6 runs on 4 hits (2 HR) and 2 walks in the 7th inning yesterday at WSH....With 2 outs in the frame, Luis Urías (2-for-3) hit his 1st career grand slam to cut the Nats’ lead to 9-5....Rafael Devers (1-for-5) hit a 2-run HR to make it a 9-7 game...At 453 ft., it was the 3rd longest HR of his career (458 ft.-6/6/19 at BAL, 457 ft.-8/14/21 vs. BAL)...The Sox are 21-16-2 in series play...They are 8-9-2 in road series, compared to 13-7-0 at home....Boston is 2-4 over its last 6 series since 7/28, after going 6-1 in the previous 7 series from 6/30-7/26...The Red Sox have won 5 of their 6 games vs. NYY this season...The clubs will play a 3-game series this weekend and a 4-game set at Fenway Park from 9/11-14....The Sox swept the Yankees in a 3-game series at Fenway Park from 6/16-18, including a doubleheader on 6/18....Boston also won a 3-game series at Yankee Stadium from 6/9-11 (2-1)...All 3 games were decided by 1 or 2 runs....Dating back to 8/12/22, 13 of the 15 games between...BOS and NYY have been decided by 3 runs or fewer....BOS is 13-7 in Bello starts...Leads the Sox in starts (20) and innings (113.1)....Has posted a 5.67 ERA in 6 starts since the All-Star break (21 ER/33.1 IP)....In his previous 12 starts before the All-Star break (4/29-7/5), posted a 2.35 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, and .219 opponent AVG (72.2 IP, 19 ER, 60 H, 19 BB, 62 SO)....Earned the win in his last start vs. NYY after allowing 1 run over 7.0 IP on 6/18/23-G2....Owns a 2.08 ERA (3 ER/13.0 IP) in 2 career starts at Yankee Stadium...Has issued 2 or fewer walks in 18 of his 20 starts this season and 1 or fewer in 10 starts...Has tossed 6.0+ innings in 10 of his last 12 starts, including 3 of his last 4....Owns a 3.39 ERA (29 ER/77.0 IP) in 13 starts following a team loss this season...

Yankees have lost a season-high five straight games...marks their longest losing streak since 8/2-7/22 (also 5G)...their last longer losing streak was a seven-game streak from 9/4-10/21...The Yankees were shut out for their second straight game and for the seventh time this season on Wednesday (also 4/29 at Texas, 5/17 at Toronto, 5/31 at Seattle, 7/7 vs. Chicago-NL, 7/28 at Baltimore and Tuesday at Atlanta)...have been shut out in back-to-back games for just the second time in the last seven seasons since 2017 (also 2G from 8/14-15/22)...RHP Jhony Brito will make his 16th appearance (13th start) of the season tonight vs. Boston...the 25-year old will pitch on extended five days' rest due to Thursday's team off day...was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on 8/11...is in his fifth stint with the club (3/30-4/2, 4/8-5/20, 6/21-27, 7/31-8/6, 8/11-present)...last pitched on Saturday at Miami, allowing just 1ER over 5.0 innings of relief (3H, 6K, 1HP)...was just the fifth pitcher in Yankees history to allow 4H-or-fewer in five of his first eight career starts, joining Bill Burbach (five such starts in 1969), Dave Righetti (five such starts from 1979-81), Sam Militello (five such starts in 1992) and Luis Gil (five such starts in 2021)...became the first pitcher in franchise history to allow 3H-or-fewer in four of his first five career starts...became the first pitcher in Yankees history to throw at least 5.0IP, allow 3H-or-fewer and allow 1R-or-fewer in each of his first two career Major League starts...made his first career Opening Day roster this year...over parts of six minor league seasons in the Yankees organization (2016-17, '19, '21-23), has gone 28-23 with two saves and a 3.86 ERA (429.0IP, 415H, 219R/184ER, 97BB, 377K, 36HR) in 93 career appearances (77 starts)...was signed by the Yankees as a non-drafted free agent on 11/9/15...Last pitched on Saturday at Miami, allowing just 1ER over 5.0 innings of relief (3H, 6K, 1HP)...marked his third career relief appearance (also 8/6 vs. Houston and 5/15 at Toronto)...His only run allowed came from an RBI single by Joey Wendle in the fourth inning...Marked his fifth outing of at least 5.0IP with 1ER-or-fewer allowed this season...His 6K matched his career high (also 6K on 5/20 at Cincinnati and 4/2 vs. San Francisco)...