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Jarren Duran’s walk-off hit completes Red Sox’s four-game sweep of Yankees

Red Sox players celebrate after Jarren Duran walked it off in the 10th inning at Fenway Park. Jaiden Tripi / Getty Images

BOSTON — In a season full of heartbreaking losses, momentum-stalling defeats and frustrating failures, the Boston Red Sox might just be starting to turn a corner.

In their 82nd game, they finally won four games in a row for the first time this season, doing so in dramatic fashion with a walk-off 5-4 victory in 10 innings Sunday to complete a four-game sweep of the New York Yankees. Perhaps the second half will offer a rebirth on what’s been a tumultuous year so far.

“There’s a long way to go,” interim manager Chad Tracy said. “We talked to the guys, just said we still got a lot of work to do, but we have some momentum now, and maybe the best momentum we’ve had. We got to just try to keep riding it for as long as we can. We’re playing really good baseball.”

It was a game the Red Sox surely would have lost earlier in the year. They watched Sonny Gray’s no-hit bid broken up in the eighth inning, then flailed as a 2-0 lead slipped away in the ninth with closer Aroldis Chapman on the mound. A brutal play from Gold Glove-winning right fielder Wilyer Abreu contributed to the tie. The Yankees took a 4-2 lead in the 10th on another Abreu miscue, and, given the way the Red Sox have collapsed time and again this year, it seemed as if their fate was already sealed.

But this time it wasn’t.

Tsung-Che Cheng hit a sacrifice fly to tie the score before Jarren Duran, entering as a pinch hitter despite a 2-for-27 stretch at the plate, smacked a single to right as the Fenway Park crowd erupted in euphoria and relief.

“I’m sure a bunch of people counted us out as soon as we gave up two runs, I’m sure people left,” Duran said. “I’m sure people gave up on us, but nobody in this clubhouse gave up, and we’ve shown it this whole series. I feel like we’ve fought really hard this entire series, and it showed in the last game, and I’m just really proud of this team.”

It all started with Gray.

The 36-year-old was brilliant in the longest no-hit bid of his 14-year career.

It took until his 97th pitch of the game for him to surrender a hit.

Amed Rosario, who was the only previous batter to reach base against Gray on a fifth-inning walk, slapped a single up the middle to break Gray’s rhythm.

“I solely was just so focused on executing every pitch that I threw,” Gray said. “It sounds super cliche and whatever, but I was solely just, ‘Execute this pitch, now execute this pitch, now execute this pitch,’ throughout the whole time, honestly.”

Gray mowed through the Yankees’ lineup with efficiency, needing just 47 pitches through his first four innings.

To illustrate how brilliant he was mixing his deep pitch mix, he got at least one swing-and-miss with six pitches: sweeper, sinker, cutter, four-seamer, curve and changeup.

There have been only five no-hitters in Red Sox-Yankees history, but Gray was the third straight Red Sox starter to hold the Yankees hitless deep into the game after Payton Tolle’s 5 1/3 no-hit innings Friday and Jake Bennett’s 4 2/3 hitless frames Saturday. It marked the first time since 1963 that the Yankees were no-hit through at least four innings in three straight games.

Tracy lifted Gray after Rosario’s single, and the starter allowed one hit and one walk, striking out nine over 7 1/3 innings. He threw 97 pitches, 64 strikes and registered 14 swings-and-misses. On top of the no-hit bid, Gray also recorded his 2,000th career strikeout, becoming the seventh active pitcher with 2,000 strikeouts.

The Fenway crowd of 34,573 gave him a standing ovation as he turned the ball over to Tyron Guerrero to finish the eighth. He tipped his cap to the lively fans, who’ve had little to cheer for this season.

It was a tipping your cap kind of night for Sonny Gray pic.twitter.com/54eshDpX1W

— Rob Bradford (@bradfo) June 29, 2026

“We need them,” Gray said of the fans. “We’re going to get back into this thing. We need them. And, they were here for us this weekend, so I appreciate that. So thank you.”

In the midst of their sweep of New York, Gray’s start was the 11th straight quality start for the Red Sox, their longest stretch since 1988, when they had 14 straight.

But it wasn’t a tidy win. Chapman entered in the ninth and pitched his third rocky outing in the span of 10 days.

“I felt good,” he said through an interpreter. “Things didn’t go my way tonight, but at the end of the day, we won. That is all that matters.”

He allowed a single and a walk before a deep fly out to right field. Abreu airmailed a throw home that went to the backstop, allowing Jose Caballero to score and Anthony Volpe to advance to third base. A fielder’s choice scored the tying run. Chapman recovered to finish the inning by striking out Max Schuemann to tie Hoyt Wilhelm for the most strikeouts by a reliever (1,363) in baseball history.

In the 10th, with the Yankees’ automatic runner on second and reliever Justin Slaten on the mound, Rosario again hit a sinking liner to right. Abreu, running in hard, had the ball in his glove, but it popped out, rolling under him, allowing the go-ahead run to score. Rosario advanced to third. On a check swing from Austin Wells, Rosario scored as Slaten’s flip home was late.

The two-run deficit felt like 10.