SPORTS: Yankees Win AL Wildcard

LINK: https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/red-sox-beat-yankees-al-wild-card-advance-division-series/

Red Sox beat Yankees in AL wild card, advance to division series

BOSTON (AP) _ As the ball sailed over the center field fence, landing 427 feet from the plate in a horde of happy Red Sox fans, Xander Bogaerts turned to the Boston dugout to flex his muscles before resuming his home run trot.

And the Red Sox were ready.

Bogaerts and Kyle Schwarber homered off Yankees ace Gerrit Cole, and Nathan Eovaldi took a shutout into the sixth inning in the AL wild-card game to help the Red Sox beat New York 6-2 on Tuesday night.

Bogaerts also cut down Aaron Judge at the plate in the sixth as Boston advanced to the best-of-five AL Division Series against the Rays.

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