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Boston Red Sox<\/a> (87-75, third in the AL East during the regular season) vs. New York Yankees<\/a> (93-68, second in the AL East during the regular season)<\/p>\n

New York; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Sonny Gray<\/a> (18-5, 2.72 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 149 strikeouts); Yankees: Max Fried<\/a> (5-5, 2.80 ERA, 0.99 WHIP, 104 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Yankees -138, Red Sox +115; over\/under is 6 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox take the field in Game 2 of the AL Wild Card Series. The Yankees lead the series 1-0 and can move on to the ALDS with a victory.<\/p>\n

New York has a 46-34 record in home games and a 93-68 record overall. The Yankees are 62-6 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Boston has an 87-75 record overall and a 46-35 record in road games. Red Sox pitchers have a collective 3.54 ERA, which ranks third in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Wednesday for the 15th time this season. The Yankees lead the season series 8-6.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ben Rice<\/a> has 24 doubles, four triples and 41 home runs for the Yankees. George Lombard Jr.<\/a> is 13 for 42 with a double, four home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Wilyer Abreu<\/a> has 38 doubles, four triples, 24 home runs and 76 RBIs for the Red Sox. Trevor Story<\/a> is 7 for 33 with a double, two home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Yankees: 6-4, .241 batting average, 3.68 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n

Red Sox: 4-6, .209 batting average, 3.10 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Yankees: Fernando Cruz<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 15-Day IL (biceps), Ryan Weathers<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Aaron Judge: 10-Day IL (leg), Kervin Castro<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Red Sox: Roman Anthony: day-to-day (undisclosed), Justin Slaten<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Eli White: 60-Day IL (foot), Tayron Guerrero: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Mickey Gasper<\/a>: 10-Day IL (biceps), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Masataka Yoshida<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Zack Kelly<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Seigler<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Curtis Mead: 10-Day IL (hand), Eduardo Rivera<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox (87-75, third in the AL East during the regular season) vs. New York Yankees (93-68,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[24971,537,5,731,48,1216,74108,75686,8635,2107,5416,1093,58674,19,792,108,3212,4,3226,62,1073,1587,1035,1946,606,15821],"class_list":["post-817934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-anthony-seigler","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-ben-rice","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-eduardo-rivera","tag-event_preview","tag-fernando-cruz","tag-george-lombard-jr","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-justin-slaten","tag-kervin-castro","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-masataka-yoshida","tag-max-fried","tag-mickey-gasper","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-ryan-weathers","tag-sonny-gray","tag-trevor-story","tag-triston-casas","tag-wilyer-abreu","tag-zack-kelly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117359306544467977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}