For the second year in a row \u2014 and the seventh time ever \u2014 the Yankees and Red Sox will meet in the postseason.<\/p>\n
And for a second straight year, the Yankees will be the host team in the wild-card series against their rivals, with Game 1 on Tuesday night in The Bronx.<\/p>\n
Rarely have teams taken a stranger route to the playoffs, as the Yankees earned the top wild-card spot in the American League but seem unlikely to have Aaron Judge in the lineup as he recovers from a strained calf.<\/p>\n
And the Red Sox, left for dead earlier in the season, used an unexpected sweep of the Yankees in late June at Fenway Park to spur a 32-5 run that gave them new life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second year in a row \u2014 and the seventh time ever \u2014 the Yankees and Red…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[35539,10094,3472,128,32358,34722,37028,20,5515,9,24,321,63,319,428,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-359759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-aaron-boone","tag-aaron-judge","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bronx","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-jazz-chisholm","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}