Tonight will mark the beginning of the end of the regular season first half, and what better way to mark it than with another Yankees-Red Sox series. These 2 teams haven’t seen each other in a while and they’ve both gone in very different directions since their last encounter. When the Yankees came to Boston for a weekend set to open May, they swept the Sox out of their own building and sent them below the .500 line for the first time on the year, where they have stayed ever since.
With that backdrop, recent developments for both clubs, and the ever-tight AL East division race looming over everything, this series feels like it has a little more juice to it than recent Yanks-Sox series have had.