Benched in Game 1 of this Wild Card Series, Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed the Red Sox just how lucky they were for his manager’s blunder — and returned just in time Wednesday night to save the Yankees’ season.

Chisholm’s diving defensive gem prevented the go-ahead run from scoring in the seventh inning, then he later used his legs for the winning run, hustling around from first base on Austin Wells’ two-out single in the eighth to deliver the Yankees’ 4-3 victory in Game 2 and force a winner-take-all Game 3 Thursday night.

The Yankees will now try to become the first team to rally back from a Game 1 loss to win a Wild Card Series since the expanded playoff system was implemented in 2022. Those teams have gone 0-12. Overall, counting the 2020 COVID-19 season, teams that win Game 1 were 18-2 in

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