G20: Yankees 10, Red Sox 3

Red Sox - 000 100 020 -  3  7  0
Yankees - 002 030 32x - 10 14  0

Gerrit Cole (7-4-1-0-8, 95) put the kibosh on the Red Sox offense, but honestly, how hard could that have been?

J.D. Martinez and Xander Bogaerts went 0-for-8 with seven strikeouts as the Red Sox lost their fifth consecutive game. Boston is 3-10 since July 31.

The Red Sox stayed close until the fifth (Alex Verdugo's fourth home run cut New York's lead to 2-1) when Ryan Brasier gave up three runs with two outs: single, balk, double, home run.

Starter Colten Brewer threw 73 pitches and recorded eight outs (2.2-4-2-3-2, 73).

Mike Tauchman (3-for-5) drove in four runs, Gleyber Torres went 4-for-4, and Gary Maniloaf hit a home run and boosted his average to .113.

Colten Brewer / Gerrit Cole

Verdugo, LF
Devers, 3B
Martinez, DH
Bogaerts, SS
Moreland, 1B
Vázquez, C
Pillar, RF
Bradley, CF
Araúz, 2B

Colten Brewer will make his first career start, after 75 games as a reliever. He is the 10th pitcher to start a game for the Red Sox this year (20 games so far).

The Yankees' 12-6 record includes a 6-0 mark at home. Although New York is only 5-5 over its last 10 games, considering the Red Sox are still staggering after being pounded for 42 runs in four games by the Rays*, this series could be extremely ugly.

*: Tampa Bay went 12 consecutive games without scoring more than five runs. Then they arrived in Boston and racked up: 8, 8, 9, and 17.

ESPN's Jeterification of Aaron Judge rolls on:

According to Phil Mushnick (Post), "Whatever it is, John Sterling still has it!"

Saturday after the Yankees' Mike Ford hit a homer, Sterling proudly piped, "For the Yankees, there's a Ford in their future!" He wasn't done being John Sterling. Next came, "Mike is Ford tough!"

As reader Mike McIntee noted, Ford's home run, as the first in the game, was sponsored by Kia, and, "The Yankees' radio network is driven by Jeep."

Nothing like giving free advertising to your paying sponsors' competitors!

Joe Kelly is really not a fan of the Astros.

The St. Louis Coronaviruses have still not resumed their schedule, but they continue to have positive tests for SARS-CoV-2. Their game tonight has been postponed to tomorrow. St. Louis has not played a game in 16 days (since July 29).

Pitcher Stephen Strasburg was ejected from yesterday's Nationals-Mets game for arguing balls and strikes - from the stands. Strasburg was sitting in Section 121 at Citi Field and was not enamored of Carlos Torres's strikezone judgment. "You're fucking brutal", Strasburg yelled before being tossed in the third inning.