Yankees bury Red Sox, Cam Schlittler whiners with statement sweep in Boston

If there was ever a time for Yankees fans to beg for a regular season victory (and sweep), it was Thursday night against the Boston Red Sox. New York cruised to effortless victories on Tuesday and Wednesday, but what really mattered was the finale.

Cam Schlittler, arguably the league's best pitcher at the moment, was set to take the mound. Dating back to last year, he had been catching wildly unnecessary heat from Red Sox fans because of his Boston ties (and the fact he sent them packing in the postseason). This week, the discourse got worse, as Sox fans attempted to backtrack on the entire thing, painting Schlittler as the instigator because he brought up the previous incidents when asked about his upcoming first career start at Fenway Park.

Anybody who pays attention to baseball knows that isn't true. Sox fans went as far to attack Schlittler's mom on social media because she said she was a now Yankees fan, in support of her son. Schlittler sending some saucy tweets in response over the coming days and weeks was hardly "retaliation" for that.

Well, good luck with the discourse now, Boston. Because the Yankees swept the series with a 4-2 victory on Thursday night in back-breaking fashion. Schlittler pitched eight innings, allowing two runs (one earned) on just four hits and a walk. He struck out five and lowered his ERA to 1.77 on the season.

Yankees continue to gain upper hand over Red Sox with Cam Schlittler dominance

Schlittler stayed strong with the Sox leading for most of this one. Thanks to his resiliency, the Yankees' offense was able to rip the hearts out of the Sox in the top of the seventh. After Payton Tolle struck out 11 batters in his sterling six innings of work, Boston's bullpen imploded.

Danny Coulombe loaded the bases on three singles, and then former Yankee Greg Weissert was no match for Cody Bellinger, who was called on to pinch hit by Aaron Boone (a massive sigh of relief after the manager's decision to start Randal Grichuk in this game). Bellinger dumped a single into left-center field to drive in two runs and give the Yankees a 3-2 lead. Aaron Judge came through with an RBI single in the next at-bat, and that was it. The magic number was four — a figure the Red Sox lost to in all three games of this series.

Throw in a Jazz Chisholm Jr. Pesky Pole homer in the fifth inning to tie the game, and we're not sure where Red Sox fans are going to go from here. Their petulant meltdowns all week long, in an attempt to guise their unabashed insecurity about this team, are about to go into overdrive.

They'll have to stew in this until June 5, when the Sox come to the Bronx for a three-game set. That's surely a long time to wait, especially when they badly needed any sort of moral victory to help cope with one of the league's worst offenses and starting rotations.

It was the first Yankees sweep of the Red Sox at Fenway since 2021. We're sure the Boston faithful are going to be rational about this one. We'll enjoy the mental breakdowns while we can.

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