Overview

• Garrett Crochet dominated in his postseason debut with 7 2/3 innings, four hits, no walks and 11 strikeouts, retiring 17 straight and throwing a career-high 117 pitches.
• Max Fried delivered 6 1/3 scoreless innings on 102 pitches before being lifted, after which Luke Weaver walked Ceddanne Rafaela, allowed Nick Sogard’s hustle double and yielded Masataka Yoshida’s pinch-hit, go-ahead two-run single.
• Anthony Volpe’s opposite-field solo homer in the second was the Yankees’ lone run until Alex Bregman added a ninth-inning RBI double to make it 3-1 Boston.
• Former Yankee Aroldis Chapman secured the final four outs, escaping a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the ninth by striking out Giancarlo Stanton and Trent Grisham with a Jazz Chisholm Jr. flyout in between.
• New York must win Game 2 at Yankee Stadium with Carlos Rodón set to face Brayan Bello, and teams that take Game 1 in the best-of-three Wild Card round are 18-2 historically.