BOSTON (Interstat) — The Boston Red Sox defeated the New York Yankees 6-3 on Thursday, June 25, 2026, at Fenway Park before 36,307 fans in 2 hours, 58 minutes.

Connelly Early earned the win for Boston, allowing two earned runs on five hits with nine strikeouts over six innings, improving to 7-5. Cam Schlittler took the loss for New York despite striking out nine over five scoreless innings, falling to 8-4. Aroldis Chapman worked a one-inning save, his 15th, yielding two hits.

The Yankees took a 3-0 lead on Jasson Domínguez’s first-inning single, but Boston answered with four runs in the fifth. Caleb Durbin delivered a two-run homer, his sixth. New York cut the lead to 4-3 in the seventh on a Paul Goldschmidt groundout, but the Red Sox added two in the eighth on an overturned hit-by-pitch and a force out. José Caballero homered for New York.

Boston improved to 33-46; New York fell to 48-32. The series continues Friday.