Yanks complete four game sweep of O’s

The Yankees won their seventy-fifth game of the season today, when they beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-0. Today’s win made it a complete sweep of the four game series in Baltimore, and gave the Yankees a four game lead on the Red Sox in the American League East divison race. The win also puts the Yanks a season-high 28 games over .500.The Bombers return home to begin a three game series with the Kansas City Royals, who took two of three at Kauffman Stadium last week. The Red Sox face a three game set against Oakland at Fenway, with whom they split their four game series in California last week.

There are now only forty games left in the regular season for the Yankees. Of those, only sixteen are away from home. In comparison, the Red Sox have only thirty-eight regular season games left, fifteen of which are on the road.