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.

Crochet held New York scoreless over a career-high 8 1/3 innings, striking out the Yankees slugger three times while holding the rest of New York’s lineup to four hits with seven total Ks.

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.

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The Yankees and Red Sox meet for the second series in a week, just this time in New York. Boston won the series 2-1 after New York took Game 1, but the bats were flying with score

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.