BOSTON — Had the Yankees been asked to swim out of a soggy Fenway Park they would have floated into the nearby Charles River.
Nothing the Yankees attempted to do on a rainy April night against the Red Sox worked. Sonny Gray was awful. Second baseman Tyler Wade made a mental mistake and a physical blunder on the same ground ball. Giancarlo Stanton overran a fly ball near the left-field line that went for a run-scoring double. Gary Sanchez lost the battle with Gray’s pitches in the dirt when the catcher was charged with three passed balls in three innings.