The New York Yankees won’t visit Fenway Park over the first three months of the Major League Baseball calendar. And, given how good their rivals have been to start the 2022 season, that’s probably not a bad thing for the Red Sox.
Sure, any true competitor welcomes the chance to prove themselves against the best — but while the Sox were floundering through most of April and May before scratching back to .500 in early June, the Yanks were asserting themselves as the team to beat in the American League.
New York finished the first third of the season with a record of 39-15, good for a 7.