Are you nervous? Do you feel like you have to throw up? Do you feel the same level of urgency tonight as when the Red Sox faced the Yankees at Fenway Park in the single-game Wild Card playoff four years ago?

Well, if not, you probably should. In the three years the Red Sox have been absent from the playoffs, the current best-of-three Wild Card format has been played twelve times (4x per year), and so far, the winner of Game 1 has gone on to win every single one of them. Yes, that’s 100% of the time! In fact, the early tide in these things has been so strong that ten of those twelve series have turned into 2-0 sweeps.

So, as Bryan Joiner pointed out earlier today, this is why you go out and get Garrett Crochet. For this game! To get the jump on the opponent in a short series. And of cours

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