The Red Sox lost their fifth straight game to the Yankees on Saturday after Giancarlo Stanton hit a devastating grand slam in the eighth to give New York the lead before winning 5-3.
Here’s what happened and the takeaways from Saturday’s loss for the Red Sox.
The big picture
The Red Sox got off to another slow start offensively Saturday. Yankees starter Nestor Cortes retired the first seven Boston hitters he faced. Catcher Kevin Plawecki ended that streak when he hit a solo shot over the Green Monster for the first run of the day.
Cortes’s day came to an end in the fifth, when he allowed two singles.