#yankees-red-sox

#yankees-red-sox

Elimination games don't get much more tense than Yankees-Red Sox Game 2. When Ben Rice homered in the first for a 2-0 New York lead, Trevor Story responded in the top of the third with two RBI of his own. When Aaron Judge got a two-out fly ball to miss Jarren Duran's glove in the fifth, Story again tied the game with a dong just a couple of minutes later.

It'd be kind of dumb for the Guardians' cosmically-blessed season to end this way, but dumb is what the playoffs are all about. Imagine the epic, undeserved ascent to the division, in the context of a wholly undeserved season, getting smashed on the rocks of "haha you had to play a three-game series." ZiPS actually has the matchup as slightly tilted towards Cleveland today, so maybe their season will end tomorrow and not today.