G98: Red Sox 4, Yankees 2

Yankees - 000 110 000 - 2  5  0
Red Sox - 120 000 10x - 4  8  1

Jacoby Ellsbury and Jonny Gomes hit early home runs and Felix Doubront (6.1-3-2-3-5, 93) stifled the New York bats.

The Yankees fell to 7.0 GB the Red Sox.

Andy Pettitte / Felix Doubront

Ellsbury, CF
Victorino, RF
Pedroia, 2B
Ortiz, DH
Napoli, 1B
Gomes, LF
Saltalamacchia, C
Snyder, 3B
Iglesias, SS

Andrew Bailey has been placed on the disabled list, with Jose De La Torre filling his spot in the bullpen. Also: the Red Sox have signed Jose Contreras and Brandon Lyon to minor league contracts and assigned both pitchers to Pawtucket.

The weekend match-ups:

Saturday: Hiroki Kuroda / John Lackey, 4 PM
Sunday: CC Sabathia / Jon Lester, 8 PM

         ALE   W   L   PCT   GB   RS   RA  DIF EXP-WL
Red Sox  1st  58  39  .598  ---  498  407  +91  57-40
Yankees  4th  51  44  .537  6.0  373  375  - 2  47-48

Dave Robertson:

We're in fourth, but we are only six games back. We can turn that around real quick ... We are still the Yankees and I think that that gives us an edge.

But Joe Girardi has already thrown in the towel!