NEW YORK � A couple of times early on Sunday night, pockets of nostalgic Yankees fans serenaded Red Sox starter David Price with an old chestnut from the rivalry's album.
"Who's Your Daddy?!" could be heard around Yankee Stadium, famously chanted at Pedro Martinez.
And that's before Price became deeply submerged in another Bronx nightmare, dragging the defending world champions further away from contention.
Price couldn't retire any of the final seven Yankees he faced in a six-run third inning. And the Yankees' early seven-run lead boosted them toward a 7-4 victory before 47,267 fans.
A full week after the Yankees rotation failed them miserably � including a stretch of three straight losses to the Red Sox at Fenway Park � Aaron Boone's club completed a four-game sweep of the Sox.
That hadn't happened in the Bronx since Aug 6-9, 2019, the Yankees last world championship season.
Now, the third-place Red Sox are just trying to cling to a wild-card hope. They're 14.5 games behind the AL East-leading Yankees, a club that continues to withstand injury after injury to key players.
"It's a credit to so many people across the board who have stepped up and impacted us winning games," Boone said of his 72-39 club, eight games ahead of the second-place Tampa Bay Rays.
"That's why anything that's come up, whether it's been injury or a bump in the road in the season, anything adverse that seems to happen to this group, they don't flinch.
"And they know what the expectation is and they've gone out and delivered."
Boone's lineup had a different look in the series finale, with Gleyber Torres leading off and Gio Urshela batting cleanup with D.J. LeMahieu rested and two more big fixtures out of the picture for now.
"That was tough, losing two significant guys" in one day, Boone said of Edwin Encarnacion (fractured wrist) and Aaron Hicks (flexor strain) getting hurt in Saturday's day-night doubleheader sweep and landing on the injured list.
"You hurt for them individually and you hurt for our team," Boone said. And yet, "you understand the opportunity" for some other player to perform "and know the guys will respond in an awesome way."
That's what happened with two out in the third, as the Yankees strung together six-straight hits and brought Price's night to an abrupt end.
Urshela's two-run homer was followed by a Brett Gardner double, a Cameron Maybin RBI double, a Mike Ford RBI single, Kyle Higashioka's second double of the night and a two-run single by Mike Tauchman.
After Torres walked, Price walked off the mound and into the dugout, chased by a standing ovation mixed with boos and other assorted unpleasantries.
It's a scene Price has been all too familiar with.
According to baseball researcher Katie Sharp, the Red Sox lefty has a hefty 9.61 ERA at Yankee Stadium since the start of the 2016 season.
That is the highest ERA for any pitcher at any MLB park in that span, with a minimum of six starts.
Staked to a 7-0 lead, J.A. Happ gave up back-to-back homers to Christian Vazquez and Michael Chavis in the fifth.
And after getting the first two out in the sixth, Happ (9-6) needed Luis Cessa's help to finish the inning after yielding a two-run single to Andrew Benintendi and bringing the tying run to the plate.
Chad Green would pick up the save.
In the home sixth, Urshela and the Yankees had to be happy that he simply survived his at-bat.
Twice in the same at-bat, Urshela fouled a ball off his right knee that caused him to crumple in pain, requiring attention from Boone and head athletic trainer Steve Donohue.
With a supportive crowd chanting his name, Urshela finished the at-bat by grounding back weakly to the pitcher. The third baseman stayed in the game until the ninth, when he was switched out defensively.
Aaron Judge homered in the first inning off Price (7-5), in a game that was delayed 69 minutes at the start by a threat of rain � a threat that produced a light shower for about a minute.
