Overview

• Boston leads the AL Wild Card series 1-0 after a 3-1 win at Yankee Stadium, putting New York in a win-or-go-home Game 2 with Carlos Rodón set to face Brayan Bello on Wednesday evening.
• Garrett Crochet dominated with 7 2/3 innings of one-run ball on 117 pitches, striking out 11 and retiring 17 straight after Anthony Volpe’s second-inning homer.
• Fried exited at 6 1/3 scoreless innings and 102 pitches, and reliever Luke Weaver walked Ceddanne Rafaela, allowed a Nick Sogard double, and yielded Masataka Yoshida’s pinch-hit two-run single that flipped the game.
• Aroldis Chapman escaped a bases-loaded, none-out jam in the ninth to secure the save, a sequence OptaStats noted as the first time a postseason team loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the ninth and failed to score in a loss.
• Alex Bregman added an insurance RBI double off David Bednar, and with Game 1 winners advancing roughly 90% of the time in best-of-three Wild Card series, the Yankees face steep odds.