Brayan Bello was brilliant on the mound for the Red Sox on Sunday, tossing seven scoreless innings to help Boston sweep the Yankees.

BOSTON — The Yankees had a chance to bury the Red Sox in the standings this month, facing their division rival in back-to-back weeks. They had a 9 1/2-game lead on the Red Sox on June 5, the day before their series at Yankee Stadium last week.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone, ace Max Fried and captain Aaron Judge react to New York's season-first sweep and consecutive series loss against the rival Red Sox after an 0-for-3 weekend in Boston.

New York Yankees star Aaron Judge had his worst performance of the season this weekend as the team was swept by the rival Boston Red Sox, going 1-for-12 over the three-game series.

Facing the Red Sox (37-36) on back-to-back weekends, the Yankees (42-28) dropped five of six and seemingly gave life to their rival’s season. In The Bronx, it was their pitching that failed them. At Fenway, it was their lifeless bats, plus a costly baserunning miscue in each of the past two games.

Brayan Bello struck out eight over seven innings, Rafael Devers homered and Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees 2-0 for a three-game sweep that extended their winning streak to five.

Sweeping the Yankees was only the second biggest piece of Boston Red Sox news this weekend. In a stunner, the Red Sox have traded star slugger Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants in a rare mid-June blockbuster.

Unless Max Fried was going to pick up a bat, there was not much more he could have done to help the Yankees on Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park.

Red Sox manager Alex Cora wanted his twin 7-year-old sons to meet the Yankees’ Aaron Judge, the biggest star of his team’s AL East foe.