162 games of the 2025 season brought us here: a Wild Card matchup between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. The Toronto Blue Jays, who no one really picked to win the division, actually did it. In 2021, when the Sox and Yankees faced off in the Wild Card it was a single game. This year it’s a best of three, or perhaps more accurately: first to two.

Boston will send Garrett Crochet, the ace, in game one against Max Fried, his Yankees counterpart. In four starts this year Crochet held the Evil Empire to a .200/.231/.370 slash line over 27 innings while striking out 39. He allowed 10 runs and walked 4. His appearances were 8.1, 6.0, 6.0, and 7.0 innings to give up 1, 3, 5, and 1 run. If he avoids a five-spot (although the Red Sox did win all four of his games) we’ll all feel pretty go

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