![]() ![]() The New York Yankees' Aaron Judge celebrates after hitting a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat the Tampa Bay Rays and clinch berth in AL wild-card game.Īnd the Boston Red Sox capped a listless, mistake-marred week to right themselves just in time, methodically erasing a four-run deficit over the final four innings before Rafael Devers’ second home run – a booming two-run shot in the top of the ninth inning – defeated the Washington Nationals 7-5 and earn the other AL wild-card slot – and the right to host the hated Yankees on Tuesday night at Fenway Park.Īs the Rays and Yankees traded zeroes in the Bronx, the Red Sox gradually took on water in D.C., falling behind 5-1 after five innings. The New York Yankees could not score a run all day against the robotically unflappable Tampa Bay Rays – until towering slugger Aaron Judge’s infield single drove in the only run in a 1-0, walk-off victory that secured a ticket to the American League wild card game. The San Francisco Giants won a club record 107th game – and the National League West, to the stunned dismay of the 106-win Los Angeles Dodgers, who saw their eight-year run of division titles stopped. In a wildly compelling coda to the season, beginning nearly simultaneously Sunday afternoon across North America, the playoff picture came into focus, fogged up like a windshield on a winter morning before finally clearing as 15 ballgames rumbled madly to a conclusion. ![]() Yet, while the bonus baseball many fans craved did not come to fruition, a compelling, coast-to-coast final day of Major League Baseball’s regular season that began with five playoff spots in flux and ended in rivers of champagne left the postseason with a tough act to follow.
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