Michael Pineda: Better. Yankees’ offense: Worse. Result: Abysmal

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BOSTON — Compared to his last outing, in which he allowed seven earned runs and four home runs to the light-hitting Tampa Bay Rays, New York Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda was practically lights-out against the powerful Boston Red Sox on Saturday night, limiting them to two runs in five innings.

Both of those runs scored on a freak hit, a bloop double by Mookie Betts that dropped between Carlos Beltran and Starlin Castro in short right field.

That should have been a decent enough performance by Pineda to at least give his team a chance to even this three-game series with the Red Sox, but these days, two runs by the opposition might as well be 20. Once again, the Yankees offense — which had scored just nine runs over the previous five games, of which the Yankees …

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