Despite it only being May, it was an important series, with a late-spring skid having the Yanks looking up at the Red Sox in the AL East standings.
This one actually featured an encouraging start for the Yankees, after Irabu worked a clean first, Chuck Knoblauch led off by lofting his third homer of the season to put his squad on the board.
Rose worked another 1-2-3 inning in the bottom of the fourth, and Irabu matched him in what was another quiet inning in the fifth.
In the sixth, the Sox turned up the heat, and the game was ultimately decided. Garciaparra tallied a one-out single, before Troy O'Leary walked. Mike Stanley followed by taking a 1-0 Irabu pitch and wrapping it down the left-field line and into the seats for a three-run blast.
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