NEW YORK -- To hear their only slightly melodramatic manager tell it, the New York Yankees would have been all but finished for the season if they had lost again here Sunday night.
Lucky for them, then, Boston Red Sox ace David Price was unable to finish hitters.
Price pitched OK, which is to say he kept the game from spiraling out of control in the Yankees' three-run fourth inning. But the Red Sox didn't plunk down $217 million last December for Price to pitch only OK, especially when a performance more typical of a No.