Overview

• Garrett Crochet, in his first postseason start, logged 7 2/3 innings with 11 strikeouts on 117 pitches, retiring 17 straight after Anthony Volpe’s solo homer.
• The game swung in the seventh when Aaron Boone lifted Max Fried at 102 pitches and Luke Weaver yielded an 11-pitch walk, a Nick Sogard hustle double and Masataka Yoshida’s pinch-hit, two-run single.
• Aroldis Chapman secured the final four outs and escaped a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the ninth; OptaStats noted the Yankees are the first postseason team to have that situation in the bottom of the ninth, fail to score and lose.
• Fried delivered 6 1/3 scoreless innings with six strikeouts before exiting, and David Bednar later allowed Alex Bregman’s ninth-inning RBI double for insurance.
• Game 1 winners have advanced about 90% of the time in the Wild Card format, and top-seeded Toronto awaits in the ALDS with Bo Bichette’s knee status still listed as TBD.