AL East

New York Yankees third baseman Chase Headley ended a lengthy extra-base-hit drought Thursday with a second-inning two-run homer against the Kansas City Royals. 

The Boston Red Sox scored 13 or more runs in each contest of a three-game series against the Oakland Athletics, becoming the first team since the 1999 Cleveland Indians to plate 13-plus runs in three consecutive games, per ESPN Stats & Info.

Knuckleball pitchers stick together.

They understand each other in a way that no one else can. They ask each other questions that no one else can answer.

And when one of their own is pitching on national TV, they're going to do what they can to watch.

So last Sunday night, Steve Sparks skipped the NBA playoffs and watched baseball's latest knuckleball king instead.

It's looking like not even the New York Yankees can outrun losing forever, and that raises a question.

What would it look like if they decided to make the best of a bad situation?

It's already easy to imagine the Yankees will have to cut their losses by becoming sellers on the summer trade market. They're following a return to the postseason in 2015 with a 13-19 start to 2016, putting them in last place in the American League East. 

New York Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman made his debut against the Kansas City Royals on Monday and was flattered by the reaction he received from the home crowd.

Finally, over the weekend, the New York Yankees generated a little excitement. Finally, Yankee Stadium had some life in back-to-back wins over the Boston Red Sox.

You'd have thought Aroldis Chapman was on the mound.

Boston Red Sox pitcher David Price said Sunday he is confident he will turn his season around.

The Boston Red Sox made a $217 million bet that David Price would be the ace they badly needed. And at first, it seemed like he would be.

Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz hit the 510th home run of his career during Friday's 3-2 loss to the New York Yankees, passing former Yankee Gary Sheffield to take sole possession of 25th place on the all-time homers list, per MLB Stat of the Day.

Jacoby Ellsbury's injury woes have cropped up again as the New York Yankees star outfielder left Friday's game against the Boston Red Sox with a hip injury. 

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