The Red Sox are guaranteed to finish in first place in the American League East at the break.

It will be the first time the club has been in first at the halfway mark since 2013.

The Red Sox currently sit four games ahead of the second-place Yankees in the division and though there have been plenty ups and downs through the first part of the season, the results are all that matter and Boston is winning.

On Saturday, Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski continued to voice his support for manager John Farrell.

"John is a good manager. He's done a good job for us," Dombrowski told reporters. "I'm not publicly in a position to evaluate managers. I never really have done that. I think it speaks for itself that we work together well, we've done a nice job, our club has played well, he's on top of things. He's doing well."

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