Managers are often scapegoated in baseball whenever their teams fall into deep slumps, but the New York Yankees present a case in which a new leader and fresh v

Aaron Boone believes that things could have been a lot worse for the Yankees during their recent series against the Red Sox.

The last time the Red Sox swept the Yankees in New York in a series longer than three games came 86 years ago, from July 7 through July 9, 1939. That was actually a five-game series played over three days, with doubleheaders on July 8 and July 9.