{"id":278729,"date":"2026-06-26T09:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278729\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:18:13","slug":"boston-red-sox-and-new-york-yankees-play-in-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278729\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees play in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Yankees<\/a> (48-32, first in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox<\/a> (33-46, fifth in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Boston; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Yankees: Will Warren<\/a> (7-2, 3.45 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 84 strikeouts); Red Sox: Payton Tolle<\/a> (3-5, 3.08 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 62 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Yankees -119, Red Sox -102; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox take a 1-0 advantage into the latest game of the series against the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n

Boston has a 33-46 record overall and a 13-25 record at home. Red Sox pitchers have a collective 3.81 ERA, which ranks seventh in the majors.<\/p>\n

New York has a 48-32 record overall and a 26-17 record in road games. The Yankees have a 24-11 record in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n

The teams play Friday for the seventh time this season. The Yankees are ahead 4-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Wilyer Abreu<\/a> has 16 doubles, two triples and 10 home runs for the Red Sox. Caleb Durbin<\/a> is 13 for 34 with three doubles and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ben Rice<\/a> has a .281 batting average to lead the Yankees, and has 15 doubles, two triples and 22 home runs. Paul Goldschmidt<\/a> is 13 for 40 with five home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 4-6, .228 batting average, 3.10 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

Yankees: 5-5, .258 batting average, 3.17 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Red Sox: Romy Gonzalez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jovani Moran<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Isiah Kiner-Falefa: 10-Day IL (forearm), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Nick Sogard: 10-Day IL (oblique), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Roman Anthony<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Trevor Story: 60-Day IL (abdomen), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Patrick Sandoval: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Yankees: Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (leg), Max Fried<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ryan McMahon: 10-Day IL (throat), Trent Grisham: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Aaron Judge: 10-Day IL (rib), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Yankees (48-32, first in the AL East) vs. Boston Red Sox (33-46, fifth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48671,3472,63622,68633,54398,34722,107118,107120,996,34720,9,11,10,321,51140,82211,67651,107117,107119,46145,87074],"class_list":["post-278729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-ben-rice","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-caleb-durbin","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-event_preview","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-jovani-moran","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-fried","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-paul-goldschmidt","tag-payton-tolle","tag-roman-anthony","tag-romy-gonzalez","tag-triston-casas","tag-will-warren","tag-wilyer-abreu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}