The Yankees’ AL East clinch party was delayed at least another day, but with a light slate of games across the entire league, Baltimore was the only one of their rivals in action Monday night. Given their playoff hopes lie somewhere between dismal and extinct, and this is likely one of the last times we see the O’s in our daily recap, let’s go long on just how they did against the Red Sox.
We got off with a bang in the night’s only rivalry contest, after Cedric Mullins took the second pitch he saw from starter Connor Seabold deep to put Baltimore up early.