Red Sox Week in Review: Another Sweep of the Yankees In June

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Boston Red Sox Weekly Snapshot

Record Last Week: 5-2

Runs Scored Last Week: 34

Runs Surrendered Last Week: 22

Standings:

5th in AL East

12.5 GB 1st Place

Transactions:

06/23/26: Boston Red Sox signed free agent C Andrew Knizner to a minor league contract.

06/23/26: Boston Red Sox sent LHP Patrick Sandoval on a rehab assignment to Worcester Red Sox.

06/23/26: Boston Red Sox sent 1B Romy Gonzalez on a rehab assignment to Worcester Red Sox.

06/25/26: Boston Red Sox sent LHP Jovani Morán on a rehab assignment to Worcester Red Sox.

06/26/26: Boston Red Sox recalled SS Tsung-Che Cheng from Worcester Red Sox.

06/26/26: Boston Red Sox placed 2B Marcelo Mayer on the 10-day injured list. Bone stress reaction to the left ulna.

06/28/26: Boston Red Sox optioned C Mickey Gasper to Worcester Red Sox.

06/28/28: Boston Red Sox transferred LF Roman Anthony from the 10-day injured list to the 60-day injured list.

06/28/26: Boston Red Sox activated 1B Romy Gonzalez from the 60-day injured list.

Scores:

Game 76: BOS 2, COL 3

Game 77: BOS 5, COL 2

Game 78: BOS 6, COL 8

Game 79: BOS 6, NYY 3

Game 80: BOS 6, NYY 1

Game 81: BOS 4, NYY 1

Game 82: BOS 5, NYY 4

Series Breakdown/Highlights

Rockies Series: Do we really even want to talk about this series? Yes, the Red Sox won the middle game, but their awful defense and inability to come through with runners in scoring position was the biggest news story out of Colorado when the series was over. The Sox were up in the seventh in both the first and third games, a situation in which they were undefeated going into the series, and managed to lose both games.

In game one, Jake Bennett dazzled over six innings, striking out nine and giving up four hits. Tyron Guerrero continued to show why he needs to be flying up other team’s trade boards. Garrett Whitlock and Aroldis Chapman combined for eight straight hits over two innings, with Chapman taking the loss after giving up three earned runs. Offensively, Willson Contreras and Caleb Durbin supplied both RBIs.

In game two, Wilyer Abreu hit a mammoth home run while Ceddanne Rafaela and Nate Eaton provided the other four RBIs. Sonny Gray worked around a shaky first inning where he gave up his only earned run on the night. He proceeded to toss six more innings of six-hit, 11-strikeout baseball en route to the win. If you watched the game, you saw an absolute masterclass in how to pitch at elevation. The trade for Gray may be the thing that Craig Breslow can hang his hat on more than anything else; the man knows how to identify pitching. Justin Slaten and Whitlock both worked clean innings to put the game away.

Game three, on the other hand, was just awful. The Red Sox looked like a junior varsity team playing in a big-league ballpark. Andruw Monasterio hit his second home run of the season while Connor Wong finally sent one over the wall for the first time in almost two years. Ranger Suarez tossed six innings of one-run baseball, striking out nine. The starting pitching wasn’t the problem in this series at all, the bullpen and the defense gave it away. The Rockies scored eight runs in this game, but only three of them were earned.

Yankees Series: Who is this team? Seriously: Where has this version of the Red Sox been all season? It wasn’t perfect, as we’ll get to in game four, but this was the most complete series the Red Sox have played all season. Game one saw the Yankees boot the ball around like crazy and the Red Sox took full advantage. Caleb Durbin stayed hot by hitting another home run while Connelly Early tossed six innings of two-earned-run, nine-strikeout baseball. Both Whitlock and Chapman looked to avenge their Rockies series and mostly did so. Chapman, curiously, had no strikeouts in this appearance though.

Game two was mostly domination by the Red Sox, who chased Will Warren after giving up five earned runs over 5.2 innings. Tsung-Che Cheng was called up after Marcelo Mayer went on the injured list and knocked his first big-league hit. Connor Wong contributed two RBIs while Contreras hit an absolute moon bomb that cleared the Green Monster by quite a few feet. Payton Tolle pitched a gem of a start, especially considering he had been sick the whole day prior. He tossed seven scoreless innings, striking out seven while giving up only one hit late in the outing. The young core of this rotation is going to be fun to watch for a long time.

Game three was another impressive outing for the Red Sox against Gerrit Cole, who threw 5.1 innings while giving up four earned runs. Jake Bennett threw 6.1 innings of one-run, three-strikeout baseball. Chapman notched another save and looked more like himself in this game. Masataka Yoshida hit his second home run of the season while rookie Anthony Seigler hit his first career homer off Cole. No matter what happens in Seigler’s career, that will be a moment he never forgets.

If you were anywhere but the edge of your seat during the second half of game four, we had to be watching different games. Gray was amazing, again. He carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning while striking out nine. His final strikeout was also number 2,000 for his career. This start gave the Sox their 11th quality start in a row, showing just how bad the previous series had to go in all other areas for the team to not be riding a seven-game winning streak right now. Chapman likely hurt his trade value a bit with this game, but the defensive lapses by Abreu in right field are the main reason the game went to extras. In a season where the Red Sox have continually rolled over late in games when they’ve been losing, Sunday night was a breath of fresh air. The names you’d expect to get it done, didn’t. The game was won by Seigler, Monasterio, Yoshida, Cheng, and Duran in the bottom of the tenth. What a game, what a sweep.