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Sunday is a baseball day, and the night belongs to Fenway. The Yankees and Red Sox close a four-game series on national TV, and Boston has a sweep in reach. There is one other game worth blocking out time for: a WNBA matchup of two teams sitting on identical records out west.
Marquee: Yankees at Red Sox, sweep on the line (7:20 PM ET, NBC/Peacock)
Boston has won the first three games of this set and goes for the four-game sweep, which the Yankees have not allowed all season. The standings make it stranger: New York is 48-34 and Boston is 35-46, yet the Red Sox have owned this week. Sonny Gray (9-1, 2.95 ERA) takes the ball for Boston against Carlos Rodón (4-2, 3.70) for the Yankees, so New York has the tougher matchup on paper if it wants to leave town with one win. NBC also puts Roger Clemens in the booth for the first time, alongside Jason Benetti and Will Middlebrooks, which adds its own subplot at Fenway. The Yankees need this one to keep a bad week from turning into a worse one.
Vegas line: Red Sox -114, total 8 runs (DraftKings via ESPN).
Also tonight
- New York Liberty at Golden State Valkyries (7:00 PM ET, ESPN/Disney+). Two of the better teams in the league meet at Chase Center, both sitting at 12-7. The Liberty are the more established side, but the expansion Valkyries have held their own all year and get them at home. It is the kind of even matchup that usually comes down to the last few possessions.
The thread tonight is simple: can the Yankees avoid a sweep they have dodged all season, against a Boston team playing well above its record. If you want the rest of the board, including World Cup knockout matches as they come back around, the full slate is at watch.uristocrat.com.
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