It’s another blowout, this time in favor of Texas as Josh Hamilton helps top Boston, 11-4.

Carl Crawford’s grand slam highlights an eight-run fourth inning that helps Boston take care of Texas.

Texas hammers Boston for a 10-0 win as New York wins to take a half-game lead in the AL East.

Mariano Rivera gets the big out for the Yanks, and Alfredo Aceves fails for the Sox.

BOSTON — CC Sabathia finally snapped out of his Red Sox funk, and it took an extra effort to do it.

Sabathia struck out 10, throwing a season-high 128 pitches in six innings Tuesday night to beat Boston for the first time in five tries and lead New York to a 5-2 victory.

The Yankees improved to 3-13 this season against the Red Sox, who lead the AL East by a half-game.

BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox worked the count against CC Sabathia, pushing his pitch count up quickly. They also got 10 hits against him over six innings. But the Sox could not beat the big left-hander Tuesday night, dropping a 5-2 decision to the New York Yankees in the opener of a three-game series […]

Starting tonight, they meet again. The Red Sox and Yankees will spend the next three nights sizing one another up as they roll into the final month of the season. Once again they are fiercely battling for the division title – the winner of this series will move onto Labor Day weekend in first place.

Does it matter? Barring a major collapse, both will be playing baseball in October. They have run away from the rest of the AL East and any other playoff contenders. The team that’s second will undoubtedly win the wild card. And just making the playoffs is the goal, right?

Boston gets strong pitching in both games on its way to a pair of rain-soaked wins, 9-3 and 4-0.