Boston sits one game behind New York for the top wild-card spot and trails the Blue Jays by six games for the division. The Red Sox need a momentum swing after three straight losses to sub-.500 teams in the Miami Marlins and the New York Yankees.

The Yankees matched a franchise record hitting nine homers Tuesday night in a 13-3 win over the Rays in Tampa.

The Yankees won the AL East only three times in Boone’s first seven seasons despite regularly fielding one of the league’s highest payrolls. New York entered play Wednesday five games behind the Toronto Blue Jays, though the Yankees hold the AL’s top Wild Card seed.

“The Mets have certainly fallen off our power ratings,” DraftKings ‘ Vegas-based director of sports betting Johnny Avello told The Post in a phone interview. “We just raised them again to 15/1. There’s no betting interest in them right now. Will they even make the playoffs?”

The Yankees enter Tuesday five games back of the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League East, and tied with the Seattle Mariners and the Boston Red Sox atop the AL Wild Card standings.

The club said it did its due diligence when deciding to select Core Jackson, and that the choice was cleared with owner Hal Steinbrenner.