It was the franchise's 10,000th regular season victory. Boston is the second American League team and the tenth major league team to reach 10,000 wins. The franchise has 108 postseason wins.
Here are the franchises with more than 5,000 wins, as of a few days ago.
Also: The second-longest World Series championship drought is 56 years, held by the Brewers and Padres. . . . Weird.
Blue Jays 21 10
Rays 19 12
Orioles 18 13
Red Sox 16 14
Yankees 13 19
How good it is.
Greg Joyce, Post, July 4, 2025:
In the Yankees' ideal world, you could walk into their clubhouse on any given day during the 162-game schedule and not know whether they are flying high or in a brutal slump.
It is a mindset shared by captain Aaron Judge and manager Aaron Boone, who do not believe in riding the emotional roller coaster of a season. It is why you will rarely see them feeling too good about themselves after big wins or long winning streaks. And it is why they will stick to a similar script after gut punches like Wednesday’s 11-9 loss to the Blue Jays — falling for the 13th time in 19 games — no matter how much it grates the fanbase.
"Any loss is brutal," said Judge, who is never all that interested in acknowledging some being tougher than others, even on a night when the Yankees fought all the way back from an 8-0 deficit . . . only to ultimately still lose.
"I trust this group so much," Boone said. "Even what we're going through right now . . . [the] stretch we're in . . . It's really hard to tell day by day [what's going on] . . . "
Denying reality . . . that's the one thing the Yankees have always managed to do exceptionally well.
Greg Joyce, Post, July 4, 2025:
The Yankees have lost 14 of their last 20 games and are tied with the Rays for second place in the division, but Boone's message was one projecting confidence amid choppy waters.
[On Thursday] the Yankees went 2-for-14 with runners in scoring position, making it 9-for-50 across the four [losses].
Add in news of a high-grade oblique strain to Fernando Cruz and Clarke Schmidt headed for an MRI tube Friday because of forearm tightness, and the four-game set was something of a test to determine where rock bottom actually is.
"It sucks when you get your ass kicked in a division-rival series, on the road," Boone said. "But we're ready-made for this . . . We need to do better. . . . We will stick together . . . This will make us stronger . . . I know this group. . . . I believe in our process. . . . Bring it on. You got to embrace the challenging times . . . I know these guys will handle it."
Armed with his trusty Cliche Hose, Boone is a fuckin artist.
Whatever. The rest of us can look at the standings, where there is clear, unmistakable, and wonderful evidence the MFY have been outright shitting the bed for the last five weeks.
Wilyer Abreu led off the bottom of the fifth with an inside-the-park home run. Three innings later, he donged the first grand slam of his career. The Red Sox rode a seven-run first inning to a 13-6 victory.
Abreu became only the sixth player to hit an inside-the-park home run and a grand slam in a game -- and the first player to do it in 67 years. The others:
June 5, 1890 - Jocko Fields, Pittsburgh Burghers (Players League)
July 4, 1923 (G1) - Everett Scott, Yankees
August 4, 1930 - Charlie Gehringer, Tigers
July 4, 1939 (G2) - Jim Tabor, Red Sox*
August 3, 1958 (G1) - Roger Maris, KC Athletics
*: Back on Independence Day in 1939, the Red Sox pounded out 35 hits and 35 runs, battering the hapless Philadelphia Athletics 17-7 and 18-12. Tabor had a great week that afternoon: 6-for-9, double, four home runs (two grand slams), seven runs scored, 11 RBI, and a walk. The 19 total bases boosted his slugging from .419 to .483!
Ian Browne reports: "It was the first inside-the-parker for a Red Sox player since Eduardo Núnéz in Alex Cora's first game as Boston's manager on March 29, 2018 (JoS), at Tropicana Field against the Rays. It was also the first inside-the-park homer for a Boston player at Fenway since Jacoby Ellsbury on Sept. 19, 2011 (JoS), vs. the Orioles."
Abreu is also the first Red Sox player with an inside-the-park and over-the-fence home run in the same game since Pokey Reese (May 8, 2004). [Hey, lady!!! I was at that game!]
Asked which home run was more satisfying, Abreu said, "Obviously the inside-the-parker, but you get tired from it. So for me if you hit the ball and just jog around the bases [for a homer], that's better."
