NEW YORK (AP) — 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 on Sunday night to prevent a four-game sweep.
Carlos Rodón allowed one hit in 5 2/3 innings as the Yankees moved within a half-game of rival Boston for the top American League wild card. They are 5 1/2 games behind first-place Toronto in the AL East.
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New York Yankees' Ben Rice (22) congratulates Trent Grisham, right, after Grisham hit a home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
New York Yankees' Carlos Rodón throws during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
New York Yankees' Trent Grisham tosses his bat after hitting a home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
New York Yankees' Trent Grisham, right, follows through on a home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
New York Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. follows through on a two run home run during the second inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Boston outscored New York 19-4 in the first three games of the series and was looking for its first sweep of at least four games in the Bronx since 1939.
After dropping eight straight to the Red Sox, the Yankees improved to 2-8 in the season series.
Grisham hit solo homers in consecutive at-bats off starter Dustin May (7-10).
Rodón (14-7) allowed Alex Bregman's single in the first inning and tied a season high with five walks. But he got double plays after the first two free passes before three more in a 37-pitch sixth knocked him out of the game.
Chisholm had his eighth career multihomer game and third this season. He went deep in the second for his 100th career homer and connected again in the eighth off Walker Buehler.
Giancarlo Stanton had two hits, including a 117.8 mph double for his 1,600th career hit. Stanton scored on a sacrifice fly in the fourth by José Caballero, who started at shortstop for slumping Anthony Volpe.
Pinch-hitter Nathaniel Lowe had a two-run single in the sixth off Yankees reliever Luke Weaver, but the Red Sox were held to five hits after getting 17 on Saturday.
With runners at the corners, Weaver threw a called third strike past Jarren Duran to end the sixth and preserve a 5-2 lead.
Grisham is 3 for 17 with three homers against May. ... Boston swept a five-game series at Yankee Stadium that included two doubleheaders in July 1939 — Ted Williams’ rookie season.
Boston had not announced who will take Buehler’s spot in the rotation Monday at Baltimore. RHP Tomoyuki Sugano (10-5, 3.97 ERA) starts for the Orioles.
Yankees RHP Cam Schlittler (1-2, 3.22 ERA) opposes Washington RHP Brad Lord (4-6, 3.46) on Monday.
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New York Yankees' Ben Rice (22) congratulates Trent Grisham, right, after Grisham hit a home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
New York Yankees' Carlos Rodón throws during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
New York Yankees' Trent Grisham tosses his bat after hitting a home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
New York Yankees' Trent Grisham, right, follows through on a home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
New York Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. follows through on a two run home run during the second inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. envoys arrived in Berlin on Sunday for another round of talks intended to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine as Moscow and Kyiv stuck to their sharply opposite views of a prospective peace deal.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner were spotted entering a hotel in downtown Berlin.
Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian, U.S. and European officials will hold a series of meetings in Berlin.
“Most importantly, I will be meeting with envoys of President Trump, and there will also be meetings with our European partners, with many leaders, concerning the foundation of peace — a political agreement to end the war,” Zelenskyy said in an address to the nation late Saturday.
Washington has tried for months to navigate the demands of each side as Trump presses for a swift end to Russia’s war and grows increasingly exasperated by delays. The search for possible compromises has run into major obstacles, including control of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, which is mostly occupied by Russian forces, and security guarantees for Ukraine.
“The chance is considerable at this moment, and it matters for our every city, for our every Ukrainian community,” Zelenskyy said. “We are working to ensure that peace for Ukraine is dignified, and to secure a guarantee — a guarantee, above all — that Russia will not return to Ukraine for a third invasion.”
Responding to journalists’ questions in audio clips on a WhatsApp group chat, Zelenskyy said Sunday that he will meet separately with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and, possibly, other European leaders later in the evening. He said he hadn't yet received any response from the U.S. to Ukraine’s latest proposals on the peace plan.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded that Ukraine withdraw its forces from the part of the Donetsk region still under its control and abandon its bid to join NATO, among the key conditions for peace — demands Kyiv has rejected.
Putin's foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov told the business daily Kommersant that Russian police and national guard would stay in parts of eastern Ukraine’s Donbas even if they become a demilitarized zone under a prospective peace plan, a demand likely to be rejected by Ukraine as U.S.-led negotiations drag on.
Ushakov warned that a search for compromise could take a long time, noting that the U.S. proposals that took into account Russian demands had been “worsened” by alterations proposed by Ukraine and its European allies.
Speaking to Russian state TV in remarks broadcast Sunday, Ushakov said that “the contribution of Ukrainians and Europeans to these documents is unlikely to be constructive," warning that Moscow will “have very strong objections.”
Ushakov added that the territorial issue was actively discussed in Moscow when Witkoff and Kushner met with Putin earlier this month. “The Americans know and understand our position," he said.
Merz, who has spearheaded European efforts to support Ukraine alongside French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, said Saturday that “the decades of the ‘Pax Americana’ are largely over for us in Europe and for us in Germany as well.”
He warned that Putin's aim is “a fundamental change to the borders in Europe, the restoration of the old Soviet Union within its borders.” “If Ukraine falls, he won’t stop,” Merz warned on Saturday during a party conference in Munich.
Putin has denied plans to restore the Soviet Union or attack any European allies.
As peace efforts continued, Russia and Ukraine exchanged another round of aerial attacks.
Ukraine’s air force said overnight Russia launched ballistic missiles and 138 attack drones at Ukraine. In its daily report, the air force said 110 had been intercepted or downed, but missile and drone hits were recorded at six locations.
Zelenskyy said Sunday that hundreds of thousands of families were still without power in the south, east and north-east regions and work was continuing to restore electricity, heat and water to multiple regions following a large-scale attack the previous night.
The Ukrainian president said that in the past week, Russia had launched over 1,500 strike drones, nearly 900 guided aerial bombs and 46 missiles of various types at Ukraine.
“Ukraine needs peace on decent terms, and we are ready to work as constructively as possible. These days will be filled with diplomacy. It’s very important that it brings results,” Zelenskyy said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that air defenses downed 235 Ukrainian drones late Saturday and early Sunday.
In the Belgorod region, a drone injured a man and set his house ablaze in the village of Yasnye Zori, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
Ukrainian drones struck an oil depot in Uryupinsk in the Volgograd region, triggering a fire, according to the regional governor, Andrei Bocharov.
In the Krasnodar region, the Ukrainian drones attacked the town of Afipsky, where an oil refinery is located. The authorities said that explosions shattered windows in residential buildings, but didn’t report any damage to the refinery.
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Ciobanu reported from Warsaw, Poland.
Günter Sautter, left, foreign and security policy advisor to the Federal Chancellor, and former Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umjerow arrive for talks between representatives of the U.S. and Ukraine, at the Hotel Adlon, in Berlin, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
Jared Kushner, entrepreneur and former chief advisor to President Donald Trump, arrives for talks between representatives of the U.S. and Ukraine at the Hotel Adlon, in Berlin, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
Ukraine's Secretary of National Security Rustem Umerov, right, and Günter Sautter, Foreign and Security Policy Advisor to Chancellor Merz meet in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Steve Witkoff, special envoy of the United States, arrives for talks between representatives of the U.S. and Ukraine, at the Hotel Adlon, in Berlin, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
In this grab from a video provided by the Press Service Of The President Of Ukraine on Friday, Dec 12, 2025, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy records a video at the road entering of Kupiansk, Ukraine. (Press Service Of The President Of Ukraine via AP)
