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On Sunday Night Baseball, the Yankees, backed by Luis Severino, got to David Price early and often en route to a dominating 11-1 series-clinching win over the Boston Red Sox. With the win, the Yanks are once again tied atop the AL East standings with Boston. Photo Credit: Jim McIsaac/Getty Images After being shutout by Chris Sale on Saturday, the Bombers asserted themselves immediately with four runs in the first on a night where David Price probably wishes he had just stayed home and played Fortnite. The scoring got started when Aaron Judge hit a towering solo home run to dead central for his 22nd big fly of the season. The opening frame fireworks continued three batters later when Gleyber Torres clubbed a three-run home run to right field to put the Yanks up 4-0. While it wasn’t needed, the offense wasn’t finished. The Yankees tacked on seven more runs thanks to four more home runs, three off the bat of Aaron Hicks. Hicks now has eight home runs in his last 15 g...

Very few series in June feel this important. For the third time this year, and the second time in the Bronx, the Yankees will battle the Red Sox in a three-game series. Both teams have been fantastic this year, as both are coming into the series with the best two records in all of baseball. The Yankees had an off-day Thursday, and before that won a three-game series in Philadelphia, and the Red Sox are fresh off a series win against the Los Angeles Angels in Boston. So far this year the teams have split their six games, each winning two at home. The first series, which was in Boston, had a lot of drama, including a bench-clearing brawl started by Tyler Austin and Joe Kelly. With first place at stake, and tensions high, we should be in for a great series from the best rivalry in sports.

Yesterday was terrible. In every possible way. The Red Sox were major favors going into the game, and this blog tried to outsmart the bookmakers and play the Yankee spread. Vegas always wins, and sure enough dominated my pick. Today will be different, though. Photo Credit: MLB.com

In the sixth episode of the Bronx Bomber Blog Podcast, Bryan Peng, Matt Cote, and Phil Akre break down the David Price signing for both the Red Sox and the Yankees and the impact on both, the current status of Yankees pitching and looking at both the free agency and trade market, and further analyze the outfield situation with Brett Gardner potentially on the trading block. Unfortunately, due to some technical difficulties, the final 3 minutes of this podcast was cut out and lost but due to the majority of it being uploaded, we'll keep it up for you all. Follow Bryan Peng  @bpeng7 Follow Matt Cote  @mcote31 Follow Phil Akre  @philakre Follow the Bronx Bomber Blog  @bronxbomberblog

The Red Sox just signed David Price to a bigger contract than Clayton Kershaw makes. $2 million more to be exact. Clayton Kershaw's total contract is $215 million over seven years as opposed to new Red Sawk David Price's  $217million over seven years. Confirmed: Price deal with #RedSox is seven years, $217M. No deferred money. Three-year opt-out. — Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) December 1, 2015 That should really say it all folks. Is David Price a good pitcher? Absolutely, but he's not better than Clayton Kershaw and no Yankee fan should be upset they made the mistake of paying him like he is. Will it suck to face him on the rival Red Sox? It sure will. But the Yankees had to face an even better pitcher several times a year from 1998-2004 named Pedro Martinez and still won three World Series and made the the playoffs every year in that time span. This is not the end of the world.