BOSTON (AP) — Xander Bogaerts and Kyle Schwarber homered off Yankees ace Gerrit Cole to help the Boston Red Sox beat New York 6-2 in the AL wild-card game. Nathan Eovaldi took a shutout into the sixth inning for Boston. The Red Sox will play the AL East champion Tampa Bay Rays in the best-of-five Division Series starting Thursday night in Florida. A year after baseball took its postseason into neutral site bubbles to protect against the pandemic, a sellout crowd of 38,324 filled Fenway Park to rekindle one of the sport’s most passionate rivalries. They saw Boston beat New York in the postseason for the third straight time.
Photo: New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone, left, walks to the mound to remove relief pitcher Jonathan Loaisiga (43) in the seventh inning of an American League Wild Card playoff baseball game at Fenway Park against the Boston Red Sox, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
