For a long time there was arguably no better rivalry in sports than Yankees-Red Sox. From the "Curse of the Bambino" to the epic AL East battles of the early-to-mid 2000s, hatred ran deep between the historic MLB franchises.

Once again, the Boston Red Sox embarrassed the New York Yankees on Saturday afternoon at Yankee Stadium. The Red Sox won their eighth consecutive game against their rival ( BOS 12, NYY 1 ), the first time they've done that in a single season since 2009. It is only Boston's third eight-game winning streak over the Yankees in its history.

Anthony Volpe has had a rough go of it manning shortstop for the Yankees this year.

The Red Sox won again, this time in a rout in which Trevor Story provided the offense and Garrett Crochet dominated the Yankees lineup.

Anthony's two-run shot was the exclamation point on his standout Yankee Stadium debut: 2 for 5, three RBIs, two runs, walk.

Red Sox’ 37-year-old closer Aroldis Chapman is defying baseball logic by putting up video-game numbers this season originally appeared on The Sporting News Usually when a pitcher gets older, the arm starts to slow down, and they get tired quicker. Then they start getting worse and worse stats until they decide to hang it up and call it a career.

Boston Red Sox pitcher Garrett Crochet hits 200 strikeouts, joins Pedro Martinez, Roger Clemens in elite franchise history.