Red Sox sweeping Yankees feels even worse after acknowledging Boston fans' reality

The New York Yankees just experienced a nightmare weekend at Fenway Park, seeing themselves swept over four games by a team at the bottom of the American League. It was the first time since 2018 that the Boston Red Sox swept the Yanks in a four-game series.

The series had some dramatic elements of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry of old (like a benches-clearing moment and New York fans despising certain Red Sox instigators). Bad calls were made, people were ejected, and yet the Yankees didn't manage to snag a single win across the four chaotic contests.

Aaron Boone didn't exactly make Yankees fans feel warm and fuzzy inside with his comments following the sweep. Similarly depressing for Yankees Nation was the Red Sox media's response to the sweep. Specifically, Boston-based 98.5 The Sports Hub radio station reminded everyone how irrelevant this sweep was for the Red Sox, who are an irrelevant baseball team when it comes to the 2026 playoff picture.

Boston sports radio just delivered a frank take on the Red Sox's sweep of the Yankees

Marc “Beetle” Bertrand of 98.5 made it clear that Boston's sweep of the Yanks meant "absolutely nothing". Bertrand pointed out that, despite the Red Sox winning seven of 10, it doesn't mean they are suddenly a playoff hopeful, nor does it mean that Boston's chief baseball officer, Craig Breslow, is forgiven for his shoddy roster construction.

No lies were detected in Bertrand's take, and the accuracy of it all led us back to the fact that the 2026 Red Sox are a bad baseball team. Of course, this only makes Yankees fans feel worse about having just watched their supposed World Series contender drop four straight games to Boston.

Injuries are starting to catch up to the Yankees' offense

Not to take anything away from Red Sox starters Payton Tolle and Sonny Gray — both of whom were awesome in this series — but it's obvious that the Yankees' lineup is starting to collapse from the burden of operating for so long without Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton's power.

This was an inevitable outcome for the Yanks at some point. No one ever expected Stanton to play a full season, but when you lose your reigning MVP and main offensive engine, and Stanton's not there to provide some slug in the meantime, it eventually becomes tough to tread water. Not even Paul Goldschmidt's fountain-of-youth season has kept this offense afloat.

But that's just the thing: the Red Sox have nobody nearly as prominent in their lineup. They have three good hitters right now, and they still managed to victimize the Yankees in the manner they did.

It was an atrocious weekend in Boston for the Yankees; what more can be said? It's time to bear down and get back on track. New York still has the good fortune of existing in an American League that's pretty darn bad in 2026, which is all the more reason they can't let a sweep at the hands of a meaningless Red Sox team throw them off track of their ultimate goal.

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