NEW YORK — After nine taut innings of epic playoff baseball and one wild sprint around the basepaths, the New York Yankees survived to play a winner-take-all game against their bitterest rivals.
Jazz Chisholm scored the go-ahead run all the way from first base on Austin Wells’ single to shallow right field, and the Yankees finally cracked the code against an indomitable Boston Red Sox bullpen to claim Game 2 of the wild card series with a 4-3 victory at Yankee Stadium Oct. 1.
No, it doesn’t quite have the same ring as Game 7. But Game 3 of this sprint of a playoff series – winner goes to Toronto, loser chooses between 3-wood and driver – should make for delicious theater when the two meet Oct. 2 in the Bronx.
Yet it’s a tall order to live up to the first two games of this donnybrook.
In Game 2, it was Chisholm who saved the Yankees on both sides of the ball.
