The Red Sox have beaten the Yankees in four of their five matchups so far this season, and Hunter Dobbins has beaten them twice this week.

Like Dobbins, the Red Sox as a whole are trending in the right direction. Saturday’s win brought them back to .500 and back in the mix in the AL East. Once all of Boston’s pitchers are healthy, having Dobbins in the organization as a reliable extra arm wherever Cora needs him will be handy late in the season.

Red Sox rookie Hunter Dobbins talked the talk, then walked the walk by beating the Yankees twice in a seven-day period this week. Dobbins has been a headline-maker in recent days by first telling The Boston Herald that he’d rather retire than join the Yankees,