NEW YORK — If recent history holds, the Red Sox find themselves in a prime spot entering Wednesday’s Game 2 of the Wild Card Series in the Bronx.

Boston’s 3-1 Game 1 win put the club a game away from a date with the Blue Jays in the ALDS . It also puts the Sox in position to continue a hard-to-believe trend. Since the best-of-three, all-in-one-ballpark Wild Card Series format began in 2022, all 12 teams who have won Game 1 have ended up winning the series. No club has come back to win two in a row after dropping Game 1. Ten of the 12 series have ended in a two-game sweep, with the 2024 Brewers (lost to the Mets) and 2022 Mets (lost to the Padres) serving as the only exception.

It’s a small sample size, sure, but clearly shows that the pressure is on the Yankees ahead of Wednesday’s 6:

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