None of that matched up the way the price suggested it would. What was supposed to be a tight, low-scoring finale instead turned into the most lopsided game of the set, and it wasn't particularly close from the middle innings on.
New York scored 5 in the 5th, tacked on single runs in the 6th and 7th, then blew it open with 9 in the 8th. The Yankees finished with 18 hits to Boston's 7, and the Red Sox's only run came in the 8th, long after the game had already gotten away from them.
The result closes out a 4-game set New York took 3 of 4, a series that flipped back and forth all weekend — Boston's only win came via a shutout in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader before the Yankees answered with a rout in the nightcap and finished the job Sunday.
Boston, now 74-62, heads out of the Bronx having dropped 3 of 4 with a lineup that managed just 1 run over the finale's final innings. New York improves to 77-59 and gets to enjoy an off day after a series that ended about as emphatically as one can.