Overview

• New York won Game 2, 4-3, on Austin Wells’ two-out eighth-inning single that scored Jazz Chisholm Jr. from first, with David Bednar closing out the ninth.
• Boston took Game 1, 3-1, behind Garrett Crochet’s 7 2/3 dominant innings with 11 strikeouts and a Yankees bullpen collapse punctuated by Masataka Yoshida’s pinch-hit two-run single.
• Aroldis Chapman escaped a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the Game 1 ninth, a sequence Opta Stats noted made the Yankees the first postseason team to fail to score in that situation and lose.
• Game 3 is Thursday at Yankee Stadium, and the winner advances to the AL Division Series starting Saturday against the Blue Jays.
• Toronto has the ALDS bye as the top seed, and shortstop Bo Bichette remains on the injured list with a left knee sprain and no set return date.