Red Sox Rout Yankees, Clinch Third Straight Division Title

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September 21, 2018

Erik Boland, Newsday

An ugly performance by the Yankees on Thursday night brought about the ugliest of sights for their fans:

The Red Sox celebrating on the Stadium field.

Another home run by Luke Voit and a grand slam by Giancarlo Stanton provided noisy jolts to the evening, but it wasn’t enough to overcome sloppiness in the field and some atrocious pitching in an 11-6 loss to the Red Sox in front of a sellout crowd of 47,351.

The victory clinched the AL East title for the Red Sox a third straight year and allowed the A’s to climb within 1½ games of the Yankees (93-59) for homefield advantage for the AL wild-card game.

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