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The retooled Red Sox will enter 9.5 games behind the Yankees, and they will be without injured free-agent signing Alex Bregman (quad) this weekend.

Before Saturday night’s game against the Red Sox, manager Aaron Boone said his expectation is that Stanton, out all of spring training and the first 2 1/2 months of the season with tendon tears in both elbows, could be back “Monday or Tuesday.”

In the fifth season of a six-year, $90 million contract with the Yankees, LeMahieu has struggled. After missing the beginning of the season with injury, he's returned to slash just .258/.333/.371 in 62 at-bats so far.

Red Sox rookie Hunter Dobbins responded to a story from The New York Post that he made false claims about his father's pro career.