BOSTON — When the Red Sox were putting their team together last offseason, filling important holes in the roster and spending as they hadn’t in years, at no point did they say: “With a little luck, maybe we can be a .500 team.”

When the sidelined Slaten did not recover the way the Red Sox anticipated over the week-plus after he landed on the injured list, they sent him for another round of tests, which yielded this discovery.

The Red Sox have had a chance in games whenever Garrett Crochet has been on the mound, but Aaron Judge got the best of him.

Chapman pitched the final two games in New York over the weekend, saving both games, then went for a third straight day in the 10th inning of Monday’s loss to the Rays. He didn’t pitch Tuesday (Weissert got the save in that one) but closed out Wednesday’s win, then threw 14 pitches Friday. That was likely his limit entering Saturday.

Alex Bregman's return to the Red Sox isn't imminent, but he's hopeful to be back in the lineup in the next few weeks.

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Dobbins didn’t take the bait postgame and pile on the Yankees after beating them twice. But he has become something of a young breakout star for the Red Sox this season and somewhat quietly has a 4-1 record and 3.74 ERA in 55 ⅓ innings in his first taste of big league action.

The first game of the series between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox was packed with emotions and controversies.