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BATTING LEADOFF

The Yankees arrived at Fenway Park on Thursday night with the best record in the American League, the Red Sox with the worst.

The Sox also had the disadvantage of having arrived home from a road trip long after the sun came up because of mechanical issues with their chartered flight from Denver.

But when you put these teams together, no matter what the standings say, things happen you don’t expect.

This time it was the Sox scoring six unearned runs to beat their rivals, 6-3, before a sellout crowd of 36,307 at Fenway Park.

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MISSING OUT: Though Walpole native and Northeastern product Cam Schlittler allowed four runs, all unearned, in the loss, he lowered his ERA to an AL-best 1.62. With his emergence, a natural question has followed for Red Sox fans: Why didn’t the Sox draft a kid who played high school and college ball in Fenway’s shadow, instead leaving him for the Yankees to take in the seventh round (No. 220) in 2022? Alex Speier delves in.

QUICK TURNAROUND: Mechanical issues delayed the Red Sox' return flight from Denver, resulting in the team not getting back to Fenway until 6 a.m. Thursday. Peter Abraham looks at how they managed to adjust and ultimately prevail against the Yankees.

ABOUT TONIGHT: Payton Tolle will be on the mound when the Red Sox continue their series with the Yankees at Fenway Park Friday night. Here is a preview.

LABOR TALKS: Major League Baseball unveiled a new set of proposals it considers friendly and advantageous to both fans and players. Unsurprisingly, the players reacted to the owners’ latest ideas as hostile affronts to both camps. Michael Silverman writes that while it’s still early, the day’s already familiar rhythm of point-counterpoint ramped up the odds of a significant interruption to the 2027 season after the all-but-inevitable players’ lockout begins in December.

See more of our Red Sox coverage here.

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