The weather gods in Boston appear to be in a particularly uncooperative mood, with the first and third of this four-game series getting rained out and rescheduled as twin bills the following days. The Yankees picked up their first doubleheader sweep at Fenway since 2006 and will look to match that today — on the same day that the Red Sox canned chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom.
The end-of-year experiment to stretch Michael King out as a starter could scarcely have started out better, with the 28-year-old righty pitching to a 1.93 ERA with 24 strikeouts against just three walks in his five starts totaling 18.