After a day off, the Red Sox will be back at it when they face the Yankees in a pivotal four-game series in New York. The Sox are hoping the rest did them some good as they enter the weekend having lost three in a row to sub .500 teams in the Orioles and Marlins. They have dropped eight of their last 12 games.

On consecutive weekends in June, the New York Yankees dropped five of six games to the Boston Red Sox and were in the initial stages of a slide that eventually knocked them out of first place in the American League East.