Red Sox beat New York Giants 5:4 on Sunday in an MLB regular-season match that extended a familiar pattern. The hosts took the series, as they had done in the two previous meetings between these same sides this week.
By then, the story was less about this single game and more about the sequence. Red Sox won 3:2 on Friday and 6:4 on Saturday before closing with the 5:4 result on Sunday. To be fair, that is three straight wins for Boston against a side that has struggled to find rhythm.
The Giants had shown flashes earlier in the week. They beat Cleveland 1:0 on Thursday, but the form vanished against Red Sox and then returned to Cleveland, where they lost 2:5 on Wednesday. And here's the thing about streaks — they tend to collapse under pressure from opponents who know you are tired.
Red Sox came into Sunday having won four of their last five, with only a 6:7 loss to Arizona breaking the run. The Giants, meanwhile, had lost three of their last five before this match. The result keeps Boston in a better position, though the gap in the standings would tell the fuller story.