Jazz Chisholm explains how he used video games to get over Game 1 loss to Red Sox
Yankees infielder Jazz Chisholm tells reporters how he cleared his mind after Game 1 loss to Red Sox by beating someone in the video game MLB The Show.
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NEW YORK — Two nights of late-game heroics and harrowing finishes have given way to an appropriate coda for this New York Yankees–Boston Red Sox American League Wild Card Series.A winner-take-all Game 3.Both clubs have passports packed and bubbly at the ready, with the victor ticketed to take on the Toronto Blue Jays in an AL Division Series beginning Oct. 4 in Canada.
This marks the fourth winner-take-all playoff engagement between these clubs since 2003 – the “Aaron Bleeping Boone” ALCS Game 7. They met a year later in the same setting when the Red Sox completed their historic comeback from a 3-0 deficit to prevail in seven games. And the Red Sox also won in the final AL wild card game in 2021 at Fenway Park.
A pair of rookies – Yankees right-hander Cam Schlittler and Red Sox lefty Connelly Early – get the starting assignments at Yankee Stadium, but the game will almost certainly be decided by the bullpens.Red Sox manager Alex Cora went with a quick hook – just 2 ⅓ innings and 28 pitches – for Brayan Bello in Game 2. The leash figures to be even shorter at the first sign of trouble for Early, who made his debut less than a month ago. But Cora’s relievers will have to reload quickly after covering 6 ⅓ innings in Game 2.Top setup man Garrett Whitlock may be particularly compromised after recording five outs before giving up the go-ahead hit to Austin Wells.“There’s guys that are feeling it,” Cora said a couple hours before Game 3, “but we are ready to go.”
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The Yankees are six outs from advancing to the ALDS as Cam Schlittler has allowed five hits and no runs, while striking out 11 and no walks on 100 pitches through six innings.
The last time the Yankees blew a four-run lead in the postseason was Game 5 of the 2024 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, a game they lost 7-6, which handed the Dodgers the championship.
Schlittler’s 11 strikeouts are the most by a Yankees rookie pitcher in a postseason game.
Yankees break open game in fourth inning
Two Boston outfielders and the second baseman failed to catch a high pop-up to center by Cody Bellinger, allowing him to end up with a leadoff double. Amed Rosario plated the game’s first run with a single to left, and Anthony Volpe’s bases-loaded single to right scored another run.
Austin Wells then chopped a ball to first that was mishandled by Nathaniel Lowe, scoring two more for a 4-0 New York lead, ending the night of Red Sox starter Connelly Early. The rookie went 3 ⅔ innings, allowing three earned runs on six hits with five strikeouts and one walk in 78 pitches. Early was replaced by reliever Justin Slaten, who hit Aaron Judge with a pitch to load the bases but got Cody Bellinger to fly out and end the inning after 10 Yankees came to the plate.
Yankees waste Giancarlo Stanton’s leadoff double
Giancarlo Stanton got the bottom of the second started with a leadoff double to deep left, but the Yankees couldn’t capitalize, as Ben Rice struck out swinging on a filthy sweeper, Amed Rosario popped out to center and Jazz Chisholm Jr. struck out looking.
Connelly Early makes quick work of Yankees in first
Connelly Early, the 23-year-old starter for the Red Sox, started by quickly striking out Trent Grisham on five pitches. Aaron Judge then flew out to center, and Cody Bellinger grounded out to shortstop on consecutive pitches. Very efficient start for Early.
Nothing doing for Red Sox in first inning
Yankees starter Cam Schlittler took the hill on a 60-degree night and didn’t look like a rookie in the first inning, getting leadoff hitter Jarren Duran to line out to second, before Trevor Story popped out and Alex Bregman ended the inning by striking out looking.
Jarren Duran (L) LFTrevor Story (R) SSAlex Bregman (R) 3BMasataka Yoshida (L) DHCeddanne Rafaela (R) CFNathaniel Lowe (L) 1BCarlos Narváez (R) CWilyer Abreu (L) RFRomy Gonzalez (R) 2BTrent Grisham (L) CFAaron Judge (R) RFCody Bellinger (L) LFGiancarlo Stanton (R) DHBen Rice (L) 1BAmed Rosario (R) 3BJazz Chisholm Jr. (L) 2BAnthony Volpe (R) SSAustin Wells (L) C
NEW YORK — Who is Connelly Early, you ask?
He’s less than a month removed from his major league debut, which came Sept. 9, which was just a little more than a year since he was toiling for the Class A Greenville (S.C.) Drive in the South Atlantic League.
And now? A win-or-go-home game, before nearly 50,000 in Yankee Stadium, barely two years removed from the University of Virginia.
Nervous, kid?
“Let’s go. Let’s do it,” Early said after the Red Sox suffered a 4-3 loss in Game 2, and roughly a couple minutes after pitching coach Andrew Bailey told him it was his ball for Game 3.
Jarren Duran
NEW YORK — Technically, Jarren Duran was not charged with an error on Aaron Judge’s fifth-inning fly to left that he came in on, dove for and then, simply, dropped. Catching it would’ve ended the inning, kept the score tied 2-2, and Trevor Story’s homer the next inning would’ve given Boston the lead, rather than tie it.
The final four innings had enough drama that Duran’s semi-muff got largely forgotten. Duran will have a lot more trouble turning the page.
“This one’s going to sting a little bit. I know this game is 100% on me,” Duran said. “Trevor hits the homer, we take the lead. I messed it up, gave them momentum. But that one’s on me. I’m going to have to wear that one.
“I’m excited to play tomorrow and redeem myself.”
What time is Yankees vs Red Sox game tonight?
First pitch is scheduled for 8:08 p.m. ET at Yankee Stadium.