Four-game sweeps are hard. Four-game sweeps on the road are near-impossible. At least, that’s the case for the Red Sox, who last swept the Yankees in a series longer than three games 31,458 days ago.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit a pair of two-run homers, Trent Grisham also went deep twice and the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 7-2 to prevent a four-game sweep.

The New York Yankees avoided a historically damaging sweep with a 7-2 win over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday night at Yankee Stadium. The victory snapped an eight-game losing streak to their rivals and prevented Boston from completing a four-game sweep in the Bronx for the first time since July 1939.