Yankees complete sweep of Red Sox as injury concerns grow

The Yankees are on pace to have more than enough wins to get to the postseason.

Whether they have enough healthy players to do anything when they get there remains to be seen.

During yet another victory over the reeling Red Sox, the Yankees saw Gio Urshela pound two foul balls of his legs in the sixth and leave two innings later and then Gleyber Torres leave the game in the eighth for an with a core issue and went to the hospital for tests.

Still, they hung on for a fifth straight win and finished off a sweep of their rivals with a 7-4 victory in front of another sellout in The Bronx.

It got the Yankees to a season-high 33 games over .500 (72-39), but they also saw Aaron Hicks go on the injured list with a right flexor strain, joining what amounts to more than half a roster on the IL.

“Throw out the record, I don’t remember this many people — obviously significant people — having missed serious time for us,’’ Aaron Boone said before the game. “Credit to them across the board that so many people have stepped up and impacted us in winning games. … They don’t flinch.’’

Again, the injuries didn’t slow the Yankees, who stayed eight games ahead of second-place Tampa Bay.

A day after the Yankees scored seven two-out runs against Chris Sale in the fourth inning, they pounded David Price for six runs in the third — again, all with two out.

Neither high-priced lefty finished the fourth inning in the two games, as the Yankees recorded their fifth consecutive victory and the Red Sox dropped their eighth in a row, matching their longest losing streak since 2015.

Aaron Judge got to Price quickly, hitting his first homer since July 20 in the bottom of the first.

But it was the third inning when the Yankees did much of their damage.

Urshela — hitting cleanup — started the onslaught with a two-out, two-run homer to give the Yankees a 3-0 lead.

Brett Gardner followed with a double and Cameron Maybin drove him in with another two-bagger.

Mike Ford, just called up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, singled to center to score Maybin and a Kyle Higashioka double sent Ford to third.

Mike Tauchman grounded a ball through the right side of the infield for a two-run single to make it 7-0. After Price walked Torres — the Yankees’ seventh straight batter to reach — the pitcher was finally yanked after allowing a season-high in runs.

Happ, like Price, just off the paternity list, cruised until there was one out in the fifth.

He gave up back-to-back homers to Christian Vazquez and Michael Chavis. Happ then hit Jackie Bradley Jr., but got Mookie Betts to hit into an inning-ending double play.

But the mediocre lefty added more drama in the sixth, with the Yankees looking for length to save a taxed bullpen.

Happ retired the first two batters before J.D. Martinez beat the shift with a sharp single to right and Sam Travis walked.

With several members of the relief corps unavailable due to heavy workloads, Boone stayed with Happ to face lefty hitter Andrew Benintendi.

A Happ wild pitch moved the runners to second and third and both scored on Benintendi’s single up the middle to make it 7-4.

Luis Cessa entered and walked Vazquez, but got Chavis swinging to end the inning. He tossed 2 ¹/₃ hitless innings to save the pen before Chad Green finished it with a scoreless ninth.

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