Overview

• Rookie Cam Schlittler delivered eight scoreless innings with 12 strikeouts and no walks, the first postseason start on record with that combination.
• New York broke the game open with a four-run fourth that featured a Cody Bellinger double, RBI hits by Amed Rosario and Anthony Volpe, and a two-run error by Nathaniel Lowe.
• Third baseman Ryan McMahon’s leaping catch into the Red Sox dugout in the eighth protected the lead before David Bednar secured the ninth.
• The Yankees became the first team in MLB’s best-of-three Wild Card era to lose the opener and still win the series.
• New York advances to face the AL East champion Blue Jays in a best-of-five series in Toronto, with the Yankees yet to announce their Game 1 starter.