G21: Yankees 11, Red Sox 5

Red Sox - 003 000 002 -  5 11  1
Yankees - 200 204 30x - 11 11  0

Nathan Eovaldi (5.1-9-8-2-3, 89) had a one-run lead for a short while, but he lost it in the fourth and gave the game away in the sixth.

Clint Frazier went 3-for-3 and knocked in five runs for the victors.

Xander Bogaerts and Alex Verdugo both hit solo dongs.

The Post's Joel Sherman thinks DJ LeMahieu's (who left the game with a sprained thumb) full name should be Derek Jeter Lemahieu.

Nathan Eovaldi / James Paxton

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

The first 20 games:

W L L L L W W L L L L W W L W L L L L L

The Red Sox are on pace to finish 18-42 (.300).

Only one Red Sox team has ever finished with a winning [sic] percentage lower than .301: the 1932 club: .279, 43-111, 64 GB.

That season, Ed Durham had an ERA of 3.80 and a 6-13 record. Ivy Andrews had an ERA of 3.81 and an 8-6 record. This oddity tormented OB's grandfather and drove him into an early grave.

After 20 games, the 1932 Red Sox were 4-16. After 60 games, 11-49.

From June 5 to June 30, they were 3-20. From July 31 to August 14 (G1), they went 1-14, scoring 2.6 runs per game and allowing 6.9.

In a 20-game stretch, from July 28 to August 16, they scored more than three runs only six times. That span included a string of 12 games in which they scored 2, 0, 1, 2, 7, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, and 2 runs. Good times.

Earl Webb (who looks like he knows what's coming), Marty McManus, Johnny Reder (April 9, 1932)

Since 1900, there have been nine teams that finished worse than .279, including the 1962 Mets (.250, 40-120) and the 2003 Tigers (.265, 43-119).

The worst record of the modern era belongs to the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics. Connie Mack's boys had won 90+ games for six straight seasons (1909-1914), winning four pennants and three championships. And then . . . 43-109 (.283) and 36-117 (.235) the next two seasons. In 1916, pitchers Jack Nabors and Tom Sheehan had a combined 2-36 record.

I guess my point is: things can always get worse. . . . But not too much worse.