If you didn’t know any better, you might mistake Wednesday’s 4-3 Yankee win in Game 2 of the AL wild-card series as one that happened before 2004, when the Red Sox still found ways to lose to the Yankees on a regular basis.

Because for all the Yankees did right in The Bronx to even the series and force another game on Thursday, two of the most significant reasons they survived were Boston miscues.

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First, there was Aaron Judge’s RBI “single” to left in the fifth that briefly put the Yankees up by a run again, when left fielder Jarren Duran dropped the ball with two out, allowing Trent Grisham

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