This time, the Tigers didn’t quite have a comeback. Garcia and Spencer Torkelson exchanged late solo homers, and that concluded the scoring. Carlos Estévez pitched a perfect ninth for his 34th save as the Royals avoided the sweep.

This is how the Yankees win, they rely on the long ball to take them to victory. The Red Sox limited them a bunch in the first three games of the series, but couldn’t hang on for the fourth one. The offense fell immensely flat aside from Nathaniel Lowe,

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.