In a turn of events that can only be described as “truly stunning”, the New York Yankees today completed a five game sweep of the Boston Red Sox, in Boston. To quote MLB.com:
Before this weekend, the Yankees had swept the Red Sox in a five-game series at Fenway Park just twice in their history, doing so in 1927 and 1943.
They won the World Series in both of those years.
New York accomplished the rare five-game sweep again on Monday, but the Yanks will have to wait another couple of months before they can try adding another title to the franchise’s total of 26 World Series titles.
The Yankees closed out the improbable weekend with a 2-1 win over the Red Sox, marking the first five-game sweep for New York over Boston since Sept. 28-30, 1951, at Yankee Stadium. The previous two five-game sweeps in Boston came in June 1927 and September 1943.
What more can I say? I was thinking the Sox would use the home-field advantage to take the series 3 games to 2. For the Yanks to take all five games is just unbelievable. Who am I kidding? It’s fricken’ great!
The Yanks went to Boston with a slim 1.5 game lead in the AL East, and now they’re 6.5 up. The season’s far from over, but a lead like that, and the way it was created, makes this Yankee fan smile
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